Though the Haitian Constitution requires that public education be offered free to all people, the Haitian government has been unable to fulfill this obligation.

Haiti's literacy rate of about 53% (55% for males and 51% for females) is below the 90% average literacy rate for Latin American and Caribbean countries.

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