Cuba

Location

Havana
Cuba
22° 58' 59.88" N, 82° 24' 0" W
Capital City: 
Havana
Category: Social
Indicator 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Source
Net enrollment ratio in primary education 99.59999999999999 99.59999999999999 98.2 97 97 98.90000000000001 MDG Database
Seats held by women in national parliament, percentage 27.6 27.6 27.6 36 36 36 36 36 43.2 43.2 43.2 UN Stats (MDGs indicators)
Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) 99.8 99.8 World Bank
Category: Land
Indicator 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Source
Agricultural land (1000 Ha) 6,554 6,656 6,654 6,638 6,528 6,637 6,630 6,620 6,600 FAO
Forest area (sq km) 24,350 24,906 25,462 26,018 26,574 27,130 27,686 28,242 World Bank
Forest area (% of land area) 22.17 22.68 23.19 23.69 24.2 24.7 25.21 25.72 World Bank
Category: Tourism
Indicator 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Source
International tourism receipts (% of total exports) 1,948 1,840 1,769 1,999 2,114 2,399 2,404 Development Data Group, The World Bank. 2008. 2008 World Development Indicators Online. Washington, DC: The World Bank. Available at: http://go.worldbank.org/U0FSM7AQ40.
Category: Demographics
Indicator 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Source
Country population 11,086,800 11,113,700 11,138,900 11,161,400 11,179,800 11,193,200 11,201,100 11,204,400 11,204,700 11,204,200 World Bank
Population annual growth 0.256027 0.241742 0.226392 0.202365 0.164986 0.119277 0.0707769 0.0296444 0.0026507 0.00495339 World Bank
Maternal mortality ratio (modeled estimate, per 100,000 live births) 65 53 53 World Bank
Category: Indices
Indicator 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Source
HDI - Human Development Index UNDP International Human Development Indicators - Calculated based on data from UNDESA (2009d), Barro and Lee (2010), UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2010b), World Bank (2010b) and IMF(2010a).
Category: Economy
Indicator 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Source
GNI per capita, PPP (current international $) World Bank
Category: Energy
Indicator 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Source
Electric power consumption (kWh) 12 12 13 13 13 12 13 14 World Bank
Combustible renewables and waste (metric tons of oil equivalent) 3,098 3,157 2,579 2,248 2,084 1,586 1,391 1,300 World Bank
Fossil fuel energy consumption (% of total) 72.45 71.54000000000001 74.69 77.42 78.53 83.20999999999999 85.81999999999999 86.77 World Bank
Category: Climate Change and Sea-level Rise
Indicator 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Source
Carbon dioxide emissions (CO2), thousand metric tons of CO2 (CDIAC) 26,039 25,453 26,091 25,453 24,936 25,020 26,032 27,055 MDG Database (CDIAC Data)
Category: Freshwater
Indicator 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Source
Improved water source (% of population with access) 90 92 94 World Bank
Category: Biodiversity
Indicator 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Source
Proportion of terrestrial and marine areas protected 2.69 4.34 4.42 4.42 4.42 4.42 4.42 4.42 4.42 4.42 UN Stats (MDGs indicators)

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Country Strategies: 
Title Programme Name Programme Description Year
UNFCCC Nat Comm - Cuba Primera comunicación nacional a la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre Cambio Climático. Strategy Description 2001
NBSAP - Cuba IV INFORME NACIONAL AL CONVENIO SOBRE LA DIVERSIDAD BIOLÓGICA Strategy Description 2009
NSDS - Cuba
10 Dec 2011 | SIDS Policy and Practice
1 November 2010: The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) began its consideration of sustainable development on 1 November in New York, U.S. Before the Committee were the following documents: the report of the Secretary-General on the five-year review of the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (MSI) (document A/65/115); a letter dated 9 September 2010...
10 Dec 2011 | SIDS Policy and Practice
11 November 2010: The Tarawa Climate Change Conference (TCCC), which met from 9-11 November 2010 in Tarawa, Kiribati, as a session of the Climate Vulnerable Forum, concluded with the release of the Ambo Declaration. The Conference brought together selected representatives from the key negotiating groups within the UNFCCC process to attend a one-day high level conference on climate change. In the Ambo Declaration, ministers and government representatives participating in the Conference: express...
Beth | 28 Jun 2011 |
HAVANA — For months, Cubans have been treated to an uncharacteristically blunt assessment of their future by none other than their president, Raúl Castro. They do not work hard enough and live too much off the state dole, he has said. The economy has been based on an unworkable math in which two plus two “equals six or eight,” as he put it in a speech on Saturday. And the leadership has failed to groom a young generation to take over, leaving the upper echelon of...
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National focal point for sustainable development: 
Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnologia y Medio Ambiente (Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment)