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Cuba in numbers — 16 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.

Capital: Havana · Region: Latin America & Caribbean · Income group: Upper middle income

Cuba recorded GDP per capita: 9,605 (2020), ranking 106 of 212 worldwide; Population: 10.94 million (2025), ranking 87 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 78.3 (2024), ranking 66 of 217 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.

Measured across each series' full span, GDP shows the largest increase (+1786%) and Population growth the largest decrease (-119%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.

Across the measures below it sits below the world median on slightly more than half. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 7 of 16 comparable series are higher and 7 are lower.

Its population of 10.94 million (2025) makes it a mid-sized population by the standards of this dataset.

13 of 16 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later; the remaining 3 end earlier because the underlying collection is less frequent.

Indicators

IndicatorLatestYearChange
Population10,937,2032025+51.1%
Population growth-0.39%2025-119.1%
Urban population77.23%2025+33.8%
GDP growth-1.06%2024-112.4%
Life expectancy78.262024+23.6%
Infant mortality6.82024-81.4%
CO2 per capita1.912024-22.9%
Labor participation52.25%2025+0.0%
Unemployment1.75%2025-79.0%
Internet users70.48%2024
Electricity access100%2024+3.1%
GDP107,352,000,0002020+1785.7%
GDP per capita9,605.282020+1388.9%
Forest area31.23%2023+63.0%
Education spending8.44%2022+0.9%
Health spending9.38%2023+42.6%
Source. World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0). Latest data revision: 2026-09-13. Country page on data.worldbank.org.