Country comparison: Cuba / United States of America

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

General information

	Cuba	United States
Region:	Caribbean	North America
Area:	109,880 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Spanish	English
Government form:	Republic (communist one-party system)	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1902 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Havana	Washington, D.C.

Population

Details for Cuba and the United States

	Cuba	United States
Population:	11,256,000	331,894,000
Inhabitants/km²:	102.4	33.8
Life expectancy males:	Ø 71 years	Ø 74 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 76 years	Ø 79 years
Average age:	Ø 42.1 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birth rate:	8.92 ‰	11.00 ‰
Death rate:	14.65 ‰	10.40 ‰
Migrationrate:	-2.53 ‰	3.01 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Cuba	United States
Political stability:	71	64
Civil rights:	29	83
Health:	75	69
Climate:	75	66
Cost of Living:	13	12
Popularity:	24	71

Economy

	Cuba	United States
Currency:	Cuban peso (1 CUP = 100 Centavos)	US dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	1.4 %	3.6 %
Average income:	8,920 US$	70,930 US$
Corruption index:	55 (bad)	31 (moderate)

	CUB: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	107,352 M US$	9.54 M US$	23,315,081 M US$	70.25 M US$
Gross national product:	100,933 M US$	8.97 M US$	23,539,918 M US$	70.93 M US$
Exported goods:	2,630 M US$	0.23 M US$	2,556,638 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	11,060 M US$	0.98 M US$	3,401,688 M US$	10.25 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Cuba and the United States

	CUB: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	60,000 km	5.33 km	6,586,610 km	19.85 km
Railways:	8,367 km	0.74 km	293,564 km	0.88 km
Waterways:	240 km	0.02 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	59	0.0052	3,627	0.0109
Passenger airports:	17	0.0015	436	0.0013

Energy balance

Details for Cuba and the United States

	CUB: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	65.52 bn kWh	5.82 m kWh	10.015 tn kWh	30.18 m kWh
Energy consumption:	16.10 bn kWh	1.43 m kWh	3.898 tn kWh	11.74 m kWh
Energy production:	19.53 bn kWh	1.73 m kWh	4.049 tn kWh	12.20 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	14.13 bn kWh	42,587.96 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	61.45 bn kWh	185,146.19 kWh
CO2 emissions:	25.91 m t	2,301.89 t	4.82 bn t	14,515.85 t

Telecommunication

Details for Cuba and the United States

	Cuba	United States
International dialing:	+53	+1
Internet domain:	.cu	.us

	CUB total	CUB per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	1,539,269	137	101,526,000	306
Mobile cellulars:	7,103,296	631	351,477,000	1059
Internet server:	3,244	0	505,000,000	1522
Internet users:	8,005,428	711	301,691,414	909
Broadband Internet:	297,321	26	125,885,000	379

Healthcare system

Details for Cuba and the United States

	Cuba	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.33	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	8.19	2.59
Diabetes:	9.6 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.35 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.07 ‰	0.03 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	79.0 %	74.0 %
Smokers:	17.9 %	23.0 %

Climate

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

	Cuba	United States
Daytime temperatures:	30.0 °C	18.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	22.2 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	26.6 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	67 %
Rain days:	7.5	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	7.8	7.2

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
Cuba
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Native languages

	Cuba	United States
Spanish:	100.0 %	10.7 %
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	0.0 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Cuba	United States
Christianity:	71.0 %	78.5 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	n/a
Jewry:	1.0 %	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Islam:	n/a	1.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	4.0 %	15.3 %

Data inventory and updates

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