Cuba

Quick facts

	President of the Council of State: Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez
	Capital	Havana
	Language	Spanish
	Population	11346000
	Land Area	110860
	Density	102.3
	Prime Minister: Manuel Marrero Cruz

Estimated population

UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs

This data was obtained from the 2012 Revision of the World Population Prospects, which is a set of global demographic estimates and projections undertaken by the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. Estimates are for the total population as of 1 July of the year indicated, and may be rounded to the nearest thousand.

Publications

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Activities Report for the Biennium 2020-2021

Caribbean Safe School Initiative

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Technical Paper on Gender Responsive Climate Actions in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

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Advancing gender equality in environmental migration and disaster displacement in the Caribbean

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News

10/26/2023

Trinidad & Tobago Guardian

Dookeran wants Caribbean to shift its integration model and forge wider convergence spaces

10/25/2023

Caribbean News Now

Hurricane Tammy Drenches Eastern Caribbean With Heavy Rain And Strong Winds

10/20/2023

Service providers could enter EU markets with less red tape

10/19/2023

Natural disaster debt pause offered by Canada

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Economic overview

The Cuban economy grew by 3.0% in 2013; below the government’s forecast at the beginning of the year and identical to the 2012 figure. This outcome reflects a context of slower growth across most of Europe, which accounts for a significant proportion of the country’s tourist arrivals.

Falling nickel prices also caused a dip in external revenue, which tightened the external constraints on growth, exacerbating the effects of the economic, commercial and financial embargo, which remains in force. On the domestic front, GDP growth was held back by a rate of investment that remains far less than envisaged by the government, and which despite rising to 8%, is nonetheless insufficient to counteract Cuba’s technological obsolescence. (Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2013)