Latin America & Caribbean · Partial data: missing TOT, GF10, GF0107, debt, rev, bal, fx
Data checked 28 Oct 2026 · next scheduled check 1 Jan 2027 · UN World Population Prospects (via World Bank) released 1 Jul 2026 · World Bank WDI released 8 Oct 2026
Total spending · 2023
Not available
Welfare · 2023
Not available
Healthcare · 2023
7.83%
+2.3 pts since 2000
Defence · 2023
Not available
Education · 2023
Not available
Debt interest · 2023
Not available
Gross debt · —
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Population · 2025
10.9m
0.1% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Cuba yet.
Not available: general-government welfare (COFOG 10) and COFOG debt transactions (01.7). No matching official observation was found in the sources checked; narrower-sector or differently defined figures are not substituted.
Healthcare rose from 5.5% to 7.8% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Defence rose from 3.4% to 3.9% of GDP between 2009 and 2012, then fell to 2.9% by 2018.
Education rose from 6.2% to 14.1% of GDP between 1998 and 2008, then fell to 8.4% by 2022.
Population grew from 10.9 million in 1995 to 10.9 million in 2025; the UN projects 9.4 million by 2050.