Population Figures for Haiti Which I've Noted in My Reading
Compiled by Bob Corbett
HAITI AS A WHOLE
- 1665 (Barskett)
400 planters in S.D.
- 1681 (
Laguerre 1989)
6658 total
4336 free
2322 slaves
- 1684 (Davis--Passage)
2200 blacks
1421 colonists
1565 indentured (from Fouchard, 1981)
- 1687 (Laguerre, 1989)
3582 black slaves
- 1753 (Laguerre, 1989)
12,799 white
4732 freemen
164,859 slaves
- 1754 (
Waxman, p. 2)
14,000 white
4,000 mulatto
192,000 slaves
210,000 total
(Barskett) most likely the source for
Waxman, but he says 172,000 slaves.
- 1755 (Laguerre, 1989)
20,438 white
5897 freemen
261,471 slaves
- 1771 (
Stein, Sonthonax)
Free men of color 6,000
Whites 18,000
- 1789 only about 5,000 whites remainded (Dupuy)
- 1789 (Stein--Sonthonax)
28,000 free men of color
30,000 whites
Cap Haitien: 7200
- 2800 white
- 400 free men
- 4000 slaves
- 1805 (Barskett)
400,000 total population, and men were scarce.
- 1818 500,000 (Dupuy)
- mid 1820s (Nicholls, 1979)
under 800,000
32,000 army
- 1842 800,000 (Leyburn)
- 1860 1,000,000 (Dupuy)
- 1915 2,000,000 (Healy)
- 1922 2,000,000 (Dupuy)
- 1930 2,600,000 (Leyburn)
- 1940 3,000,000 (Leyburn)
PORT-AU-PRINCE
- 1749 1,200 (Fass)
- 1751 3,000 (Fass)
- 1790 14,754 (Holly)
2754 whites
4000 Affranchais
rest slaves
- 1792 8,000 (de Wimpffen)
- 1802 30,000 (Korngold)
- 1804 7,000 (Fass)
- 1895 60,000 (Fass)
- 1915 60,000 to 100,000 (Healy)
- 1950 150,000 (Fass)
- 1976 640,00 (Fass)
CAP HAITIEN
- 1915 18,000 TO 30,000 (Healy)
ARAWAK/TAINO NATIVE INDIANS
- 15 years after the Spanish the Arawaks were reduced from
500,000 to 60,000 (Davis--Passage)
COLUMBIAN TIMES
- Haiti was virtually deserted until bucaneers of 1629. (Leyburn)
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