Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Germany instead of Cuba, you would:

Health

live 1.9 years longer

In Cuba, the average life expectancy is 80 years (77 years for men, 82 years for women) as of 2022. In Germany, that number is 82 years (79 years for men, 84 years for women) as of 2022.

Economy

make 4.4 times more money

Cuba has a GDP per capita of $12,300 as of 2016, while in Germany, the GDP per capita is $54,000 as of 2022.

be 2.5 times more likely to be unemployed

In Cuba, 1.2% of adults are unemployed as of 2022. In Germany, that number is 3.1% as of 2022.

Life

be 89.7% less likely to die during childbirth

In Cuba, approximately 39.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2020. In Germany, 4.0 women do as of 2020.

be 22.8% less likely to die during infancy

In Cuba, approximately 4.1 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2022. In Germany, on the other hand, 3.2 children do as of 2022.

have 10.1% fewer children

In Cuba, there are approximately 9.9 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Germany, there are 8.9 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

Basic Needs

be 28.2% more likely to have internet access

In Cuba, approximately 71.0% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Germany, about 91.0% do as of 2021.

Expenditures

spend 63.3% less on education

Cuba spends 12.8% of its total GDP on education as of 2010. Germany spends 4.7% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

Geography

see 36.0% less coastline

Cuba has a total of 3,735 km of coastline. In Germany, that number is 2,389 km.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.

Germany: At a glance

Germany is a sovereign country in Europe, with a total land area of approximately 348,672 sq km. As Europe's largest economy and second most populous nation (after Russia), Germany is a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed Germany in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers of the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945. With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). The democratic FRG embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations, the EC, which became the EU, and NATO, while the communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The decline of the USSR and the end of the Cold War allowed for German unification in 1990. Since then, Germany has expended considerable funds to bring Eastern productivity and wages up to Western standards. In January 1999, Germany and 10 other EU countries introduced a common European exchange currency, the euro.
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