Cuba
Republic of Cuba
- Capital
- Havana
- Region
- Caribbean
- Population, 2025
- 11 million
- Currency
- CUC
- Area
- 109,884 km²
Across Cuba's 5 priced cities, one person needs about $718 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $33.00.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
54out of 100
- Purchasing power25%4
- Safety20%64
- Health care15%74
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%95
- Connectivity10%No data
- Cost10%90
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
30.9
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
8.8
New York = 100
Purchasing power
5.3
New York = 100
One person
$718
A month, rent included
Net salary
$33.00
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$254
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$9,605
2020
Growth
−1.1%
2024
Unemployment
1.7%
2025
Inflation
—
Life expectancy
78.3 years
2024
Internet users
70%
2024
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 50%
- SourceWikipedia
- Lowest income tax rate
- 15%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 30%
- SourceWikipedia
- VAT or sales tax
- 10%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 64.3
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 35.7
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2019
- 4.5
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median
- —
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- —
Cities in Cuba
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Sancti Spíritus | 71 | — | — | $20.00 | — | 127.1K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 2Santa Clara | 71 | — | $350 | — | — | 250.5K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 3Pinar del Río | 71 | — | — | — | — | 187K | Low confidence |
| 4Camagüey | 71 | — | — | — | — | 347.6K | Low confidence |
| 5Arroyo Naranjo | 71 | — | — | — | — | 210.1K | Low confidence |
| 6Mantilla | 71 | — | — | — | — | 206.9K | Low confidence |
| 7Boyeros | 71 | — | — | — | — | 188.6K | Low confidence |
| 8Fontanar | 71 | — | — | — | — | 178.6K | Low confidence |
| 9Ciudad Camilo Cienfuegos | 71 | — | — | — | — | 178K | Low confidence |
| 10San Miguel del Padrón | 71 | — | — | — | — | 159.3K | Low confidence |
| 11Centro Habana | 71 | — | — | — | — | 158.2K | Low confidence |
| 12Balcón de la Lisa | 71 | — | — | — | — | 147.4K | Low confidence |
| 13Plaza de la Revolución | 71 | — | — | — | — | 139.1K | Low confidence |
| 14Marianao | 71 | — | — | — | — | 134.1K | Low confidence |
| 15Cerro | 71 | — | — | — | — | 132.4K | Low confidence |
| 16Guanabacoa | 71 | — | — | — | — | 113K | Low confidence |
| 17Vedado | 71 | — | — | — | — | 108.4K | Low confidence |
| 18Alamar | 71 | — | — | — | — | 100K | Low confidence |
| 19Almendares | 70 | — | — | — | — | 240K | Low confidence |
| 20Diez de Octubre | 70 | — | — | — | — | 227.3K | Low confidence |
| 21Matanzas | 70 | — | — | — | — | 146.7K | Low confidence |
| 22Ciego de Ávila | 70 | — | — | — | — | 142K | Low confidence |
| 23Guantánamo | 68 | — | — | — | — | 272.8K | Low confidence |
| 24Holguín | 68 | — | — | — | — | 319.1K | Low confidence |
| 25Manzanillo | 68 | — | — | — | — | 128.2K | Low confidence |
| 26Santiago de Cuba | 67 | — | — | — | — | 555.9K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 27Las Tunas | 67 | — | — | $40.00 | — | 203.7K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 28Palma Soriano | 67 | — | — | — | — | 102.8K | Low confidence |
| 29Havana | 55 | 30.9 | $254 | $33.00 | 5.3 | 2.2M | Medium confidence, 11 contributors |
| 30Cienfuegos | 51 | 46.4 | $360 | $38.00 | 4.1 | 186.6K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 31Bayamo | 49 | 44.2 | $425 | $20.00 | 2.1 | 192.6K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 32Mayari | 41 | 44.4 | $211 | $21.70 | 2.8 | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 33Varadero | 40 | 40.9 | $500 | $19.26 | 2.0 | 20K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 34Artemisa | — | — | — | — | — | 68.1K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 35Florida | — | — | — | — | — | 63K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |