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Mortality in Cuba, by the numbers

Cuba sits in Latin America & Caribbean. A newborn there can expect about 78.3 years of life, 64th of 212 countries with data. Below, every mortality measure the National Death Index tracks for Cuba, each with its global rank and source year.

Life expectancy
78.3 yrs
64th of 212
Crude death rate
10.4 /1,000
32nd highest of 212
Suicide rate
13.8 /100k
37th highest of 182

16 measures · sources: World Bank Open Data and WHO Global Health Observatory (Global Health Estimates 2021) · latest available year per figure

How Cuba ranks, measure by measure
MeasureValueWorld rankYear
Life expectancy at birth 78.3 yrs 64 of 212 2024
Age-standardized death rate 7.8 /1,000 105 of 182 2021
Crude death rate 10.4 /1,000 32 of 212 2024
Life expectancy at 60 18.1 yrs 93 of 182 2021
Male mortality penalty 53.5 /1,000 125 of 212 2024
Life-expectancy gap (F−M) 4.8 yrs 111 of 212 2024
Old-age sex ratio (65+) 79.9 men/100 women 106 of 212 2024
Infant mortality 6.8 /1,000 135 of 192 2024
Maternal mortality 35.0 /100k 109 of 191 2023
Premature NCD mortality 17.6 % 103 of 182 2021
Suicide rate 13.8 /100k 37 of 182 2021
Road-traffic deaths 8.9 /100k 128 of 187 2019
Recorded alcohol per adult 5.4 L 81 of 185 2020
Population aged 65+ 16.6 % 55 of 212 2024
Health spending per capita $1,199 58 of 191 2020
GDP per capita $9,605 102 of 212 2020

Measured against the rest of the world, Cuba's sharpest departures from the middle of the pack are the 32nd highest crude death rate in the world (10.4 /1,000) and the 37th highest suicide rate in the world (13.8 /100k). Every figure above is the most recent the source reports for Cuba; the year sits beside each one, and rankings cover only countries with data for that measure.