Country comparison: Colombia / Cuba

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Colombia and Cuba. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Colombia	Cuba
Region:	South America	Caribbean
Area:	1,141,749 km²	109,880 km²
National language:	Spanish	Spanish
Government form:	Presidential republic	Republic (communist one-party system)
Independent since:	1810 AD	1902 AD
Capital:	Bogota	Havana

Population

Details for Colombia and Cuba

	Colombia	Cuba
Population:	51,517,000	11,256,000
Inhabitants/km²:	45.1	102.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 72 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 78 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 31.2 years	Ø 42.1 years
Birth rate:	14.44 ‰	9.34 ‰
Death rate:	6.61 ‰	10.23 ‰
Migrationrate:	-1.58 ‰	-2.92 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Colombia	Cuba
Political stability:	45	71
Civil rights:	44	29
Health:	57	83
Climate:	54	75
Cost of Living:	46	13
Popularity:	28	24

Economy

	Colombia	Cuba
Currency:	Colombian peso (1 COP = 100 Centavos)	Cuban peso (1 CUP =100 Centavos)
Unemployment rate:	13.9 %	1.5 %
Average income:	6,190 US$	8,920 US$
Corruption index:	61 (bad)	55 (bad)

	COL: total	per 1000 inh.	CUB: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	314,464 M US$	6.10 M US$	107,352 M US$	9.54 M US$
Gross national product:	318,932 M US$	6.19 M US$	100,933 M US$	8.97 M US$
Exported goods:	50,793 M US$	0.99 M US$	2,630 M US$	0.23 M US$
Imported goods:	70,840 M US$	1.38 M US$	11,060 M US$	0.98 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Colombia and Cuba

	COL: total	per 1000 inh.	CUB: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	205,379 km	3.99 km	60,000 km	5.33 km
Railways:	2,141 km	0.04 km	8,367 km	0.74 km
Waterways:	24,725 km	0.48 km	240 km	0.02 km
Harbours:	122	0.0024	59	0.0052
Passenger airports:	51	0.0010	17	0.0015

Energy balance

Details for Colombia and Cuba

	COL: total	per 1000 inh.	CUB: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	68.25 bn kWh	1.32 m kWh	16.16 bn kWh	1.44 m kWh
Energy production:	74.92 bn kWh	1.45 m kWh	19.28 bn kWh	1.71 m kWh
Energy export:	460.00 m kWh	8,929.17 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	378.00 m kWh	7,337.45 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	81.04 m t	1,573.09 t	25.91 m t	2,301.81 t

Telecommunication

Details for Colombia and Cuba

	Colombia	Cuba
International dialing:	+57	+53
Internet domain:	.co	.cu

	COL total	COL per 1000 inh.	CUB total	CUB per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	7,567,395	147	1,539,269	137
Mobile cellulars:	75,056,111	1457	7,103,296	631
Internet server:	4,410,000	86	3,244	0
Internet users:	35,953,409	698	8,005,428	711
Broadband Internet:	8,434,168	164	297,321	26

Healthcare system

Details for Colombia and Cuba

	Colombia	Cuba
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	1.71	5.33
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.08	8.19
Diabetes:	7.4 %	9.6 %
HIV:	0.30 %	0.35 %
Tuberculosis:	0.41 ‰	0.07 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	71.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	8.5 %	17.9 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Colombia and Cuba

	Colombia	Cuba
Daytime temperatures:	30.3 °C	30.0 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	22.0 °C	22.2 °C
Water temperature:	27.1 °C	26.6 °C
Rel. humidity:	76 %	78 %
Rain days:	12.1	7.5
Sunshine hours per day:	5.4	7.8

Native languages

	Colombia	Cuba
Spanish:	99.0 %	100.0 %
Chibcha:	0.4 %	n/a
Quechua:	0.1 %	n/a
Arawakan:	0.1 %	n/a
Creole-English:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	0.3 %	0.0 %

Religions

	Colombia	Cuba
Christianity:	90.0 %	71.0 %
Nondenominational:	n/a	24.0 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.0 %
other:	10.0 %	4.0 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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