Statistics

Cuba
Population: 11,096,395 (July 1999 est.)
Official Language: Spanish
Distribution of ethnic groups: Mixed ethnicity 51%
White 37%
Black 11%
Chinese 1%
GDP--real growth rate: 1.2% (1998 est.)
AIDS cases per 100,000 people: 5.4 in 1997 (compared with 225 in the United States)

The information above was gathered from the CIA World Fact Book and United Nations Development Programme Web sites.