Cuba's Overview

1. Cuba is located in Caribbean, island between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, 150 km south of Key West, Florida.
2.  It's geography is 21 30 N, 80 00 W.
3. It's population is 11,087,330 (July 2011 est.)
4. The current goverment is a dictatorship
5. Current political state is Communist
6. The language is Spanish
7. The birth rate 9.99 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)
8. Literacy  rate   definition: age 15 and over can read and write,total population: 99.8%,male: 99.8%,female: 99.8% (2002 census) 
9. School life expectancy  total: 18 years,male: 16 years,female: 19 years (2009).
10. Their religion is nominally 85% Roman Catholic prior to CASTRO assuming power; Protestants, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jews, and Santeria are also represented.
11. Their death rate is 7.47 deaths/1,000 population (July 2011 est.)
12. Their life expectancy in total is 77.7 years, men is75.46 years , and women is 80.08 years
13. The ethnic groups are white 65.1%, mulatto and mestizo 24.8%, black 10.1%(2002 census)
14. The legal system is based on Spanish civil law and influenced by American legal concepts with large elements of Communist legal theory; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
15. The suffrage 16 years of age; universal
16. The unemployment rate is 2% (2010 est.)
17. Their is no population below poverty line
18. The industries are sugar, petroleum, tobacco, construction, nickel, steel, cement, agricultural machinery, pharmaceuticals
19. The main source of communication are telephones with 1.168 million (2009) lines in use
20. Military service .17-28 years of age for compulsory military service; 2-year service obligation; both sexes subject to military service (2006)
21. Current situation: Cuba is principally a source country for children subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically commercial sexual exploitation within the country; the scope of trafficking within Cuba is difficult to gauge due to the closed nature of the government and sparse non-governmental or independent reporting
22. International dispute....US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay is leased to US and only mutual agreement or US abandonment of the facility can terminate the lease.

 

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