LA28 Olympics · resolves 30 Jul 2028
How many gold medals does Cuba win at LA28?
4 gold medals80% range 2 gold medals to 9 gold medals
Cuba
North AmericaCapital city: HavanaCapital metro: HavanaPresident: Miguel Díaz-CanelGeneral Secretary (First Secretary, PCC): Miguel Díaz-Canel
2026 population
9.7M
Rank #97 globally
Area
110k km² (42k sq mi)
Metros tracked
18
59% of population in metros
Composite score
13.5
Rank #86 globally
population: Official estimate (31 Dec 2024) · indicators as of 5 Sep 2026 · 18 metros tracked
🗺️ Geography18 metros
Cuba metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.
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18 polygons
Select a metro for its rank and a link to its page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.
🏙️ 18 tracked metros
18 metros
#360Havana★ Capital▲ Largest
Havana · 2.3M · Established Metro
7.2
#1691Holguín
Holguín · 358K · Local Metro
0.6
#1703Camagüey
Camagüey · 334K · Local Metro
0.6
#1739Santa Clara (Cuba)
Villa Clara · 247K · Local Metro
0.6
#1781Cienfuegos
Cienfuegos · 179K · Local Metro
0.6
#1815Santiago de Cuba
Santiago de Cuba · 510K · Local Metro
0.5
#1865Isla de la Juventud
Isla de la Juventud (Isla de Pinos) · 84K · Local Metro
0.5
#2183Bayamo
Granma · 239K · Local Metro
0.3
#2202Guantánamo
Guantánamo · 226K · Local Metro
0.3
#2222Las Tunas
Las Tunas · 214K · Local Metro
0.3
#2254Pinar del Río
Pinar del Río · 193K · Local Metro
0.3
#2315Matanzas
Matanzas · 163K · Local Metro
0.3
🗂️ Administrative subdivisions
16 entries listed under Cuba across 2 types. Select any to see its metros and footprint.
16 total
Provinces (15)
Cities (1)
📋 At a glance
- Official language
- Spanish
- Currency
- Convertible peso (CUC)
- Government
- Unitary state
- Legislature
- National Assembly of People's Power
- Constitution
- 2019, 1 amendment event since
- Demonym
- Cuban
- Time zone
- UTC-05:00
- Driving side
- Right
- Calling code
- +53
- Internet TLD
- .cu
- ISO 3166
- CU
- Established
- 1898
- Highest point
- Pico Turquino (1,974 m (6,476 ft))
- National anthem
- El Himno de Bayamo
Facts via Wikidata.
🗣️ Languages of Cuba
Spanish first; one language carries the country; 1 official.
| Language | Share | Status | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 100% | Official | CLDR, country |
Shares count first and second language, so they overlap and can add past 100%.
- Effective languages
- 1.0
- Official-language gap
- 0%
- Spanish is spoken by 100%
📰 In the news1 story
Vox · 22 Aug 2026
Cuba has twice the doctors per capita as the US, and a collapsing health systemFurther reading from the day's reading list.
💹 Economy and developmentUpper middle income
Human Dev. Index
#96 / 1910.762
UNDP · 2023
GDP
#71 / 193$107.4B
World Bank · 2020
GDP per capita
#86 / 193$9.6k
World Bank · 2020
GNI/capita (Atlas)
#86 / 192$9.0k
World Bank · 2019
Life expectancy
#52 / 19478.3 yrs
World Bank · 2024
Median age
41.7 yrs
UN WPP · 2023
Urban population
#54 / 19477%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. growth
-0.4%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. density
#82 / 193106/km² (275/mi²)
World Bank · 2023
Foreign-born
#193 / 1930.0%
World Bank · 2024
Rule of law
#152 / 1750.12
V-Dem · 2025
Internet users
#118 / 19370%
World Bank · 2024
CO₂ per capita
#85 / 1922.2 t
Global Carbon Budget · 2024
Renewable electricity
#162 / 1864%
Ember · 2024
Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.
🔮 What happens next
Our forecasts, frozen before the result and scored after it.
LA28 Olympics · resolves 30 Jul 2028
How many medals in all does Cuba win at LA28?
12 medals80% range 6 medals to 22 medals
Alliances & Organisations3 full memberships
Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer
🏛️ Leadership History9 leaders · click to expand
is an editorial flag: associated with atrocities against civilians, systemic subversion of the constitutional order, or a criminal conviction (political persecutions and annulled convictions excluded). It is a curated list, not a measurement, so a name without one has not been cleared of anything. Hover a badge for the reason on file.
Post-Castro era
Miguel Díaz-Canel✦ Current
General Secretary (First Secretary, PCC) · Communist Party of Cuba · 2021–present
2021–Present
Miguel Díaz-Canel✦ Current
President · Communist Party of Cuba · 2018–present
2018–Present
Castro era
Raúl Castro
General Secretary (First Secretary, PCC) · Communist Party of Cuba · 2011–2021
2011–2021
Raúl Castro
President (President of the Council of State) · Communist Party of Cuba · 2008–2018
2008–2018
Fidel Castro
President (President of the Council of State) · Communist Party of Cuba · 1976–2008
1976–2008
Fidel Castro
Prime Minister · Communist Party of Cuba · 1959–1976
1959–1976
Cuban Revolution
Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado
President · Communist Party of Cuba · 1959–1976
1959–1976
Manuel Urrutia Lleó
President · Independent · 1959
1959–1959
Pre-Revolution dictatorship
Fulgencio Batista
President · Progressive Action Party · 1952–1959
1952–1959
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
Today
Minor#89 · 0.1%
Power (headline share)Latent (material mass)Recognised (standing)
The power line is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.
⚔️ Wars and conflicts10 interstate wars · click to expand
United States,Antigua and Barbuda,Barbados,Dominica,Jamaica,Saint Lucia,Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Combat deaths: 102+
Angolan Civil War●1975–2002
Combat deaths: 164,900+
| Conflict | Years | Against | Combat deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| Invasion of Grenada | 1983 | United States,Antigua and Barbuda,Barbados,Dominica,Jamaica,Saint Lucia,Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 102+ |
| Ogaden War● | 1977–1978 | Somalia | 39,836+ |
| Angolan Civil War● | 1975–2002 | Angola People's Republic of Angola/Republic of Angola | 164,900+ |
| Yom Kippur War● | 1973 | Israel | 10,521–21,300 |
| War of Attrition | 1967–1970 | Israel | 6,442–14,290 |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion | 1961 | United States,DRF | 2,298+ |
| Cuban Civil War | 1916–1918 | Cuba Pro-José Miguel Gómez rebels | — |
| Spanish–American War | 1898 | Spain Kingdom of Spain | 3,685+ |
| Little War (Cuba) | 1879–1880 | Spain Kingdom of Spain | — |
| Ten Years' War● | 1868–1878 | Spain | 150,000+ |
Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.” Figures marked “COW battle deaths” are Correlates of War battle-death counts, which run lower than total deaths.
👥 Population over time
Population 2023
11.0m
#86 in the world
Since 1800
41×
from 272k
Past its peak
−2.5%
peaked at 11.3m in 2012
Share of world
0.14%
0.03% in 1800
Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Cuba is past its peak, which is less unusual than it sounds: the two lines here can point in opposite directions, and for most of Europe and East Asia they now both point down.
👥 To 2100
The UN’s probabilistic projection for Cuba: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.
Peak
2012
11.3m; already passed
2050
9.4m
95% band 8.6m to 10.2m
2100
5.6m
95% band 3.7m to 8.1m
2100 against 2025
0.51×
median falling from 2024
Deaths outnumber births
since 2019
on the UN medium path; migration decides the rest
estimateUN median80% and 95% bandshigh and low fertilityzero migration
What drives it
Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.
1950
190k born · 67k died · -6k net migration
TFR 4.03 · life expectancy 59.0 · median age 21.2
1960
237k born · 65k died · -25k net migration
TFR 4.13 · life expectancy 63.3 · median age 21.4
1970
264k born · 62k died · -44k net migration
TFR 3.98 · life expectancy 67.9 · median age 20.7
1980
136k born · 62k died · -37k net migration
TFR 1.64 · life expectancy 72.6 · median age 23.0
1990
187k born · 74k died · -15k net migration
TFR 1.81 · life expectancy 73.8 · median age 26.7
2000
143k born · 82k died · -25k net migration
TFR 1.61 · life expectancy 75.9 · median age 32.1
2010
129k born · 92k died · -34k net migration
TFR 1.67 · life expectancy 77.9 · median age 37.3
2020
103k born · 116k died · -12k net migration
TFR 1.49 · life expectancy 77.4 · median age 41.3
Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.
🏆 National Teams
Cuba on the international stage. Select a card for the full record.
Olympics
Cuba
Games 17
Medals 244
All-time #21
Best #4
86 golds
Baseball
Cuba
Elo rank #13
WBC apps 6
Record 20-16
Best Runners-up
No WBC titles
Men's FootballCONCACAF
Cuba
FIFA #163
Elo #149
WC apps 1
No World Cups
Volleyball
Cuba
All-time #14
Oly medals 1
Worlds medals 4
Elo rank #11
No Olympic golds
Basketball
Cuba
Elo rank #53
Oly medals 1
WC apps 4
No Olympic golds