You may be right. My friends who were in DR thought it was very poor (by US standards) and they may have been correct. But when you compare it to Haiti, they may be relatively well off. As I’ve stated, I’m going by second hand info from people who were there over a decade ago.
HaitiHaiti's per-capita GDP is very close to the per-capita GDP of the average sub-Saharan West African country.black 95%, mulatto and white 5%Dominican Republicmixed 73%, white 16%, black 11%