International rankings of Cuba

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The following are international rankings of Cuba.

Demographics

• United Nations: Population, ranked 74 out of 242 countries
• CIA World Factbook: Urbanization ranked 46 out of 193 countries^[1]

Economy

• The Wall Street Journal and Heritage Foundation: 2012 Index of Economic Freedom, ranked 177 out of 179 countries^[2]
• World Bank: Ease of Doing Business Index not ranked ^[3]
• World Bank: GDP per capita 2011, ranked 92 out of 190 countries ^[4]
• CIA World Factbook: GDP per capita 2011, ranked 92 out of 191 countries ^[5]

Education

Environment

• Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and Columbia Center for International Earth Science Information Network: 2012 Environmental Performance Index ranked 50 out of 132 countries^[6]

Geography

Cuba is the largest country by land area in the Caribbean, and its main island is the seventeenth-largest island in the world by land area

• Total area ranked 106 out of 249 countries and outlying territories
• Renewable water resources ranked 106 out of 174 countries

Globalization

• 2010 KOF Index of Globalization: ranked 112 out of 181^[7]
• A.T. Kearney/ Foreign Policy magazine Globalization Index: not ranked

Military

Cuba has four Mikoyan MiG-29s in inventory as of January 2011

• CIA World Factbook: Defense spending as a percent of GDP, ranked 29 out of 172 countries ^[8]
• Institute for Economics and Peace: 2012 Global Peace Index, ranked 70 out of 158^[9]

Politics

First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Raúl Castro

• Transparency International: 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index, ranked 61 out of 182 countries^[10]
• Reporters Without Borders: 2011–2012 Press Freedom Index, ranked 167 out of 179 countries^[11]
• The Economist Intelligence Unit: Democracy Index 2008, ranked 126 out of 167 countries^[12]
• Freedom House: 2012 Global Press Freedom: ranked 190 out of 197^[13]

Society

• United Nations Development Programme 2014 Human Development Index ranked 67 out of 187
• Economist Intelligence Unit: Quality-of-life Index not ranked^[14]
• University of Leicester: 2006 Satisfaction with Life Index ranked 83 out of 178

Tourism

Total foreign tourist days spent in Cuba by district for the year 2010^[15]

Transportation

The so-called yank tanks remain in use from pre-revolutionary days

• Motor vehicles per capita ranked 118 out of 144 countries ^[16]

See also

• Outline of Cuba
• Index of Cuba-related articles

References

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