Education in Haiti

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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