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Cuba

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Cuba is a country. The capital city is Havana, located in the Caribbean region of Americas. It has a land area of 103,800 km², a population of 11,019,931 people and uses the currency Cuban peso. The First Secretary of the Communist Party is Raúl Castro.

Key facts

currency: Cuban peso
capital city: Havana
region: Caribbean
continent: Americas
land area: 103,800 km²
population: 11,019,931 people
political leader: Raúl Castro (First Secretary of the Communist Party)

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GDP: 107,351,800,000.00 current US$
self-employed workers: 28.37 % of total employment
unemployment: 1.72 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 22.89 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 76,000 people
democracy score: 3.00
democracy type: Authoritarian
individuals using the Internet: 71.30 % of population
military expenditure: 2.88 % of GDP
net migration: -22,797 people
press freedom: 1.23
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 55.74 %
birth rate: 8.89 per 1,000 people
death rate: 9.85 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 1,186.16 current US$
health expenditure: 13.79 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.18 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 4.22 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 78
suicide mortality rate: 14.50 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 64,010.00 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 0.09 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 22.07 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 100.00 % of population
electricity production from coal sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from natural gas sources: 14.54 % of total
electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 0.24 % of total
electricity production from nuclear sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from oil sources: 45.97 % of total
electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 3.71 % of total
net energy imports: 49.78 % of energy use
fertility rate: 1.45 births per woman
forest area: 32,420 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 85.60 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 39.40 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 37.80
methane emissions: 12.27 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 4.74 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 5,580,991 people
male population: 5,438,940 people
renewable energy consumption: 20.90 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 106,664.76 km²
rural population: 2,476,950 people
urban land area: 3,053.18 km²
urban population: 8,542,981 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 1.55 % of total population

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Location on a map: 21°50′N, -80°0′W

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Cuba is one of the countries in Americas, countries in Caribbean and 194 countries in our database.

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