Haiti is often described as a single crisis. On the ground it is not. Institutional reach, security, and basic services look very different from one department to the next. This is our working map of where the state holds, where it thins out, and where people are carrying the most risk.
A single national number tells you almost nothing useful about Haiti. The gap between the strongest and the weakest department is wide, and most of the country's formal administrative weight sits in one place. Here is the spread, department by department, on our overall capacity index.
Filter by risk level, sort the list, and open any department for its capacity breakdown, key indicators, and short briefs on governance, security, the economy, and more. Tap a brief to read it.
Geography is one lens. The other is sector. Some of these we have started to score against our index. Others we are still building out, and we would rather say so than publish a number we do not trust yet. Open any sector to see where it stands and what we are still working on.
We would rather be clear about the state of the work than dress it up. Here is an honest read on what you can lean on today and what is still moving.
We score each department from 0 to 100 on four things: how dense its institutions are, how well basic services reach people, how much security coverage exists, and the state of its infrastructure. The overall index is the average of those four. Higher is better.
The scores are ours. They are a reading, not a measurement. We build them from public data, published assessments, and reporting from people who know the ground, then we weigh them against a common rubric so a 30 in one department means roughly the same as a 30 in another. Where the evidence is thin, we score conservatively and flag it.
Risk level is not a fifth score. It is a summary judgment that folds in the capacity index alongside security conditions and exposure to shocks like storms and earthquakes. That is why a department can post a middling capacity score and still sit in the high-risk group.
This is a living document. Numbers here will change as we verify sources and add field data, and we will keep saying so plainly rather than quietly editing.