What is political centralization index in Haiti?

Political centralization index in Haiti was 0.809 in 2025, according to Our World in Data.

What is the highest political centralization index recorded in Haiti?

The highest recorded value was 0.964 in 1957.

What is the lowest political centralization index recorded in Haiti?

The lowest recorded value was 0.569 in 1996.

How does Haiti rank for political centralization index?

Haiti ranks 32nd out of 176 countries with data for 2025.

Is political centralization index rising or falling in Haiti?

Over the last ten years it is up 14.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.

Where does this Haiti data come from?

The figures come from Our World in Data, published as part of Political centralization index. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

Political centralization index in Haiti

Name: Political centralization index in Haiti
Creator: Our World in Data
License: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)

Haiti: Political centralization index was 0.809 in 2025. ▼ Falling

Latest (2025)

0.809

Change on year

up 1.8%

World rank

32nd

of 176 countries

All-time high

0.964

in 1957

All-time low

0.569

in 1996

Years of data

237

1789–2025

Political centralization index in Haiti, 1789–2025

Source: Our World in Data.

Analysis

The most recent figure for political centralization index in Haiti is 0.809, measured in 2025.

That represents a change of up 1.8% on the previous year and up 14.4% over ten years.

Over the whole period, political centralization index in Haiti peaked at 0.964 in 1957 and was at its lowest, 0.569, in 1996.

Haiti ranks 32nd of 176 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 237 years of available data.

Political centralization index in Haiti, year by year

Annual values for Political centralization index in Haiti, 1789 to 2025.
Year	Value	Change
1789	0.949	—
1790	0.949	+0.0%
1791	0.949	+0.0%
1792	0.949	+0.0%
1793	0.949	+0.0%
1794	0.949	+0.0%
1795	0.949	+0.0%
1796	0.949	+0.0%
1797	0.949	+0.0%
1798	0.949	+0.0%
1799	0.949	+0.0%
1800	0.949	+0.0%
1801	0.949	+0.0%
1802	0.949	+0.0%
1803	0.949	+0.0%
1804	0.949	+0.0%
1805	0.949	+0.0%
1806	0.949	+0.0%
1807	0.949	+0.0%
1808	0.949	+0.0%
1809	0.949	+0.0%
1810	0.949	+0.0%
1811	0.949	+0.0%
1812	0.949	+0.0%
1813	0.949	+0.0%
1814	0.949	+0.0%
1815	0.949	+0.0%
1816	0.908	-4.3%
1817	0.913	+0.6%
1818	0.913	+0.0%
1819	0.913	+0.0%
1820	0.913	+0.0%
1821	0.913	+0.0%
1822	0.913	+0.0%
1823	0.913	+0.0%
1824	0.913	+0.0%
1825	0.913	+0.0%
1826	0.913	+0.0%
1827	0.913	+0.0%
1828	0.913	+0.0%
1829	0.913	+0.0%
1830	0.913	+0.0%
1831	0.913	+0.0%
1832	0.913	+0.0%
1833	0.913	+0.0%
1834	0.913	+0.0%
1835	0.913	+0.0%
1836	0.913	+0.0%
1837	0.913	+0.0%
1838	0.913	+0.0%
1839	0.913	+0.0%
1840	0.913	+0.0%
1841	0.913	+0.0%
1842	0.913	+0.0%
1843	0.913	+0.0%
1844	0.951	+4.2%
1845	0.951	+0.0%
1846	0.937	-1.5%
1847	0.937	+0.0%
1848	0.937	+0.0%
1849	0.937	+0.0%
1850	0.937	+0.0%
1851	0.937	+0.0%
1852	0.937	+0.0%
1853	0.937	+0.0%
1854	0.937	+0.0%
1855	0.937	+0.0%
1856	0.937	+0.0%
1857	0.937	+0.0%
1858	0.937	+0.0%
1859	0.937	+0.0%
1860	0.937	+0.0%
1861	0.937	+0.0%
1862	0.937	+0.0%
1863	0.937	+0.0%
1864	0.937	+0.0%
1865	0.937	+0.0%
1866	0.937	+0.0%
1867	0.937	+0.0%
1868	0.937	+0.0%
1869	0.937	+0.0%
1870	0.937	+0.0%
1871	0.937	+0.0%
1872	0.937	+0.0%
1873	0.937	+0.0%
1874	0.937	+0.0%
1875	0.937	+0.0%
1876	0.937	+0.0%
1877	0.937	+0.0%
1878	0.937	+0.0%
1879	0.937	+0.0%
1880	0.937	+0.0%
1881	0.937	+0.0%
1882	0.937	+0.0%
1883	0.937	+0.0%
1884	0.937	+0.0%
1885	0.937	+0.0%
1886	0.937	+0.0%
1887	0.937	+0.0%
1888	0.937	+0.0%
1889	0.937	+0.0%
1890	0.895	-4.5%
1891	0.895	+0.0%
1892	0.895	+0.0%
1893	0.895	+0.0%
1894	0.895	+0.0%
1895	0.895	+0.0%
1896	0.895	+0.0%
1897	0.895	+0.0%
1898	0.895	+0.0%
1899	0.895	+0.0%
1900	0.895	+0.0%
1901	0.895	+0.0%
1902	0.895	+0.0%
1903	0.895	+0.0%
1904	0.898	+0.3%
1905	0.898	+0.0%
1906	0.898	+0.0%
1907	0.898	+0.0%
1908	0.898	+0.0%
1909	0.898	+0.0%
1910	0.897	-0.1%
1911	0.902	+0.6%
1912	0.902	+0.0%
1913	0.902	+0.0%
1914	0.902	+0.0%
1915	0.905	+0.3%
1916	0.899	-0.7%
1917	0.899	+0.0%
1918	0.937	+4.2%
1919	0.937	+0.0%
1920	0.937	+0.0%
1921	0.936	-0.1%
1922	0.936	+0.0%
1923	0.936	+0.0%
1924	0.936	+0.0%
1925	0.936	+0.0%
1926	0.936	+0.0%
1927	0.936	+0.0%
1928	0.936	+0.0%
1929	0.936	+0.0%
1930	0.929	-0.7%
1931	0.893	-3.9%
1932	0.893	+0.0%
1933	0.893	+0.0%
1934	0.889	-0.4%
1935	0.865	-2.7%
1936	0.883	+2.1%
1937	0.875	-0.9%
1938	0.875	+0.0%
1939	0.875	+0.0%
1940	0.875	+0.0%
1941	0.875	+0.0%
1942	0.884	+1.0%
1943	0.884	+0.0%
1944	0.883	-0.1%
1945	0.883	+0.0%
1946	0.867	-1.8%
1947	0.867	+0.0%
1948	0.867	+0.0%
1949	0.867	+0.0%
1950	0.913	+5.3%
1951	0.875	-4.2%
1952	0.875	+0.0%
1953	0.875	+0.0%
1954	0.875	+0.0%
1955	0.875	+0.0%
1956	0.934	+6.7%
1957	0.964	+3.2%
1958	0.96	-0.4%
1959	0.96	+0.0%
1960	0.96	+0.0%
1961	0.96	+0.0%
1962	0.96	+0.0%
1963	0.96	+0.0%
1964	0.96	+0.0%
1965	0.96	+0.0%
1966	0.96	+0.0%
1967	0.96	+0.0%
1968	0.96	+0.0%
1969	0.96	+0.0%
1970	0.96	+0.0%
1971	0.955	-0.5%
1972	0.954	-0.1%
1973	0.954	+0.0%
1974	0.954	+0.0%
1975	0.954	+0.0%
1976	0.954	+0.0%
1977	0.954	+0.0%
1978	0.954	+0.0%
1979	0.954	+0.0%
1980	0.954	+0.0%
1981	0.954	+0.0%
1982	0.954	+0.0%
1983	0.954	+0.0%
1984	0.954	+0.0%
1985	0.954	+0.0%
1986	0.957	+0.3%
1987	0.833	-13.0%
1988	0.83	-0.4%
1989	0.886	+6.7%
1990	0.862	-2.7%
1991	0.771	-10.6%
1992	0.895	+16.1%
1993	0.895	+0.0%
1994	0.866	-3.2%
1995	0.594	-31.4%
1996	0.569	-4.2%
1997	0.569	+0.0%
1998	0.569	+0.0%
1999	0.569	+0.0%
2000	0.576	+1.2%
2001	0.589	+2.3%
2002	0.583	-1.0%
2003	0.583	+0.0%
2004	0.746	+28.0%
2005	0.831	+11.4%
2006	0.738	-11.2%
2007	0.572	-22.5%
2008	0.572	+0.0%
2009	0.576	+0.7%
2010	0.694	+20.5%
2011	0.696	+0.3%
2012	0.673	-3.3%
2013	0.689	+2.4%
2014	0.689	+0.0%
2015	0.707	+2.6%
2016	0.705	-0.3%
2017	0.684	-3.0%
2018	0.671	-1.9%
2019	0.696	+3.7%
2020	0.681	-2.2%
2021	0.72	+5.7%
2022	0.747	+3.8%
2023	0.804	+7.6%
2024	0.795	-1.1%
2025	0.809	+1.8%

Haiti compared with similar countries

Haiti's 0.809 is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 0.5475, 1.5× the median. (46 countries reporting)
Haiti's 0.809 is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 0.236, 3.4× the median. (25 countries reporting)

Averages by decade

Decade	Average	Lowest	Highest	Years
1780s	0.949	0.949	0.949	1
1790s	0.949	0.949	0.949	10
1800s	0.949	0.949	0.949	10
1810s	0.9341	0.908	0.949	10
1820s	0.913	0.913	0.913	10
1830s	0.913	0.913	0.913	10
1840s	0.9302	0.913	0.951	10
1850s	0.937	0.937	0.937	10
1860s	0.937	0.937	0.937	10
1870s	0.937	0.937	0.937	10
1880s	0.937	0.937	0.937	10
1890s	0.895	0.895	0.895	10
1900s	0.8968	0.895	0.898	10
1910s	0.9082	0.897	0.937	10
1920s	0.9361	0.936	0.937	10
1930s	0.887	0.865	0.929	10
1940s	0.8752	0.867	0.884	10
1950s	0.9106	0.875	0.964	10
1960s	0.96	0.96	0.96	10
1970s	0.9547	0.954	0.96	10
1980s	0.923	0.83	0.957	10
1990s	0.7159	0.569	0.895	10
2000s	0.6366	0.572	0.831	10
2010s	0.6904	0.671	0.707	10
2020s	0.7593	0.681	0.809	6

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Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 1.35 (2050)
Emission Totals - Indirect emissions (N2O) - Crop Residues 0.0485 (2050)
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Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 6.65 (2050)
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Frequently asked questions

What is political centralization index in Haiti?: Political centralization index in Haiti was 0.809 in 2025, according to Our World in Data.
What is the highest political centralization index recorded in Haiti?: The highest recorded value was 0.964 in 1957.
What is the lowest political centralization index recorded in Haiti?: The lowest recorded value was 0.569 in 1996.
How does Haiti rank for political centralization index?: Haiti ranks 32nd out of 176 countries with data for 2025.
Is political centralization index rising or falling in Haiti?: Over the last ten years it is up 14.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Haiti data come from?: The figures come from Our World in Data, published as part of Political centralization index. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Indicator: Political centralization index
Source: Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 176 places, 29,802 data points, 1789–2025
Last refreshed: 30 October 2026