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Brazil vs Cuba
How Brazil and Cuba compare on 32 measures, from 1789 to 2025. The main differences:
- Life expectancy · In 2023, Cuba was higher: 78.1 years against 75.9 years
- GDP per person · In 2024, Brazil was higher: $9,567 against $7,381
- Population · In 2023, Brazil was higher: 211 million people against 11 million people
- Military spending · In 2018, Cuba was higher: 2.88% of GDP against 1.47% of GDP
- CO₂ per person · In 2024, Brazil was higher: 2.32 tonnes against 1.91 tonnes
Every measure
Health
- Life expectancyBrazil: 75.9 years in 2023Cuba: 78.1 years in 2023
- Child mortalityBrazil: 1.4 per 100 live births in 2024Cuba: 0.9 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityBrazil: 12.1 per 1,000 live births in 2023Cuba: 4.4 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- DepressionBrazil: 3.3% in 2017Cuba: 3.32% in 2017
- Suicide rateBrazil: 6.1 per 100,000 people in 2017Cuba: 11.3 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationBrazil: 211 million people in 2023Cuba: 11 million people in 2023
- Population growthBrazil: 0.41% a year in 2023Cuba: -0.35% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateBrazil: 1.62 births per woman in 2023Cuba: 1.44 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationBrazil: 88.2% in 2025Cuba: 77.2% in 2025
- Median ageBrazil: 33.9 years in 2023Cuba: 41.7 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overBrazil: 10.6% in 2023Cuba: 16.2% in 2023
- Net migration rateBrazil: -1.1 per 1,000 people in 2023Cuba: -2.1 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingBrazil: 1.05% of GDP in 2025Cuba: 2.88% of GDP in 2018
- Military spending per personBrazil: $113 in 2025Cuba: $11 in 2018
- Armed forces personnelBrazil: 762,000 people in 2020Cuba: 76,000 people in 2020
- National powerBrazil: 2.01% of world capability in 2022Cuba: 0.11% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersBrazil: 0.76% of the labour force in 2020Cuba: 1.54% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsBrazil: 462 million TIV in 2025Cuba: 8 million TIV in 2004
- Arms exportsBrazil: 153 million TIV in 2025Cuba: 8 million TIV in 1980
Climate
Technology and environment
Each country on its own
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, IHME, World Bank, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
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