TOTAL AREA: 110,860 sq km
IRRIGATED LAND: 9,100 sq km (1993)
POPULATION: 11,096,395 (1999)
POPULATION GROWTH RATE: 0.4% (1999)
GDP: purchasing power parity – $17.3 billion (1998)
GDP-REAL GROWTH RATE: 1.2% (1998)
GDP-PER CAPITA: purchasing power parity – $1,560 (1998)
GDP-COMPOSITION BY SECTOR: agriculture: 7.4%, industry: 36.5%, services: 56.1% (1997)
LABOR FORCE: 4.5million economically active population state sector: 76%, non-state sector: 24% (1996)
LABOR FORCE BY OCCUPATION: services and government: 30%, industry 22%, agriculture: 20%, commerce: 11%, construction: 10%, transportation and communication: 7%
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE: 6.8% (1997)
REVENUE: $12.3 billion (1998)
EXPENDITURES: $13 billion
INDUSTRIES: sugar, petroleum, food, tobacco, textiles, chemicals, paper and wood products, metals, cement, fertilizers, consumer goods, agricultural machinery
EXPORTS: $1.4 billion (1998)
IMPORTS : $3 billion (1998)
TELEPHONES: 229,000
RAILWAYS: 4,807 km
HIGHWAYS: 60,858
How does Cuba compare?
Population: Cuba and Selected Countries [in thousands]
How many Cubans are there?
Without counting the more than a million and one half Cubans overseas who went into exile, Cuba (11,116,000 people) has a larger population than Belgium, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Jamaica, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Switzerland, and Uruguay, among others.
Despite what is often written, Cuba is not a tiny island:
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(source: Rand McNally Illustrated Atlas of the world, 1989) |
