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
28 Feb 2012 | SIDS Policy and Practice
22 February 2012: A group of 23 countries meeting in Moscow, Russian Federation, adopted the Joint Declaration of the Moscow Meeting on Inclusion of International Civil Aviation in the EU-ETS, which outlines the participants’ shared position that the EU and its Member States must cease application of the Directive 2008/101/EC to airlines and aircraft operators registered in third States. Under the Directive, international civil aviation was included in the EU-Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS...
14 Feb 2012 | SIDS Policy and Practice
3 February 2012: The subregional headquarters for the Caribbean of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) recently convened an expert group to discuss the status of regional efforts to develop economic frameworks to assess the economic and social impacts of climate change in the Caribbean in key sectors. The expert group, which met in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, from 2-3 February 2012, assessed progress made in the data gathering process, the successes...
26 Jan 2012 | SIDS Policy and Practice
25 January 2012: The initial discussions on the “zero draft” of the outcome document for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20) began on 25 January 2012, at UN Headquarters in New York, US. Opening comments on the zero draft were offered by five groupings with small island developing States (SIDS) members, namely the Group of 77 and China (G-77/China), the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Pacific SIDS, and the Pacific Islands...
External Resources: 

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National focal point for sustainable development: 
Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnologia y Medio Ambiente (Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment)