TOTAL AREA: 110,860 sq km
IRRIGATED LAND: 8,700 sq km (2003)
POPULATION: 11,477,459 (2010 est)
POPULATION GROWTH RATE: 0.217% (2010 est)
GDP: purchasing power parity $111.1 billion (2009 est)
GDP-REAL GROWTH RATE: 1.4% (2009 est)
GDP-PER CAPITA: purchasing power parity $9,700 (2009 est)
GDP-COMPOSITION BY SECTOR: agriculture: 4.3% industry: 21.6% services: 74% (2009 est)
LABOR FORCE: 5.159 million economically active population state sector 78%, non-state sector 22% (2009 est)
LABOR FORCE BY OCCUPATION: agriculture: 20% industry: 19.4% services: 60.6% (2005)
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE: 1.7% (2009 est)
REVENUE: $47.08 billion (2009)
EXPENDITURES: $50.34 billion (2009 est)
INDUSTRIES: sugar, petroleum, food, tobacco, textiles, chemicals, paper and wood products, metals, cement, fertilizers, consumer goods, agricultural machinery
EXPORTS: $2.458 billion (2009 est)
IMPORTS : $8.963 billion (2009 est)
TELEPHONES: 1.104 million (2008)
CELLULAR PHONES: 331,700 (2008)
INTERNET USERS: 1.45 million (2008) note: private citizens are prohibited from buying computers or accessing the Internet without special authorization
RAILWAYS: 8,598 km
PAVED ROADS: 29,820 km (includes 638 km of expressway)

How many Cubans are there?

Without counting the more than a million and one half Cubans overseas who went into exile, Cuba (11,116,000 people) has a larger population than Belgium, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Jamaica, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Switzerland, and Uruguay, among others.

Despite what is often written, Cuba is not a tiny island: