🇨🇺 Cuba Politics - Governance, Freedom & Democracy

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🇨🇺 Cuba CU / CUB #104

Nomad Score 46.0

Cities 13

Region Latin America, Hispanophone, Islands, North America, Americas, Caribbean

Currency CUC

📊 GOVERNANCE AT A GLANCE

Government Unitary Communist state

UN Member Yes

Independent Yes

CPI Score (2026) 40/100

Press Freedom (2025) 26.0/100 #165

Electoral Democracy (2025) 0.176

HDI 0.762

🏛 GOVERNMENT & LEADERS

Government Type Unitary Communist state

Title	Name
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba	Miguel Díaz-Canel
Vice President of Cuba	Salvador Valdés Mesa

💰 CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS INDEX

CPI Score (2026) 40 / 100

Interpretation Moderate corruption

Source: Transparency International / Corruption Insights API. Higher scores = less corruption.

📰 PRESS FREEDOM INDEX

Overall Score (2025) 26.0 / 100

Global Rank #165 / 180

Rank Change +3 vs previous year

RSF Zone Amériques

Political #172 13.8

Economic #174 19.1

Legal #174 18.2

Social #152 35.5

Safety #136 43.6

Source: Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Higher scores = better press freedom.

📊 PRESS FREEDOM DIMENSIONS

Five dimensions of press freedom tracked over time. Higher = better.

🗳 DEMOCRACY INDEX

Electoral (2025) 0.176

Liberal 0.057

Participatory 0.054

Deliberative 0.097

Egalitarian 0.224

Source: V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy), CC-BY-SA. Scale: 0 (least democratic) to 1 (most democratic).

📋 PRESS FREEDOM HISTORICAL DATA

Year	Score	Rank	Political	Economic	Legal	Social	Safety
2025	26.0	165	13.8	19.1	18.2	35.5	43.6
2024	25.6	168	14.9	24.5	15.6	30.2	43.1
2023	29.0	172	32.9	35.7	14.4	29.9	32.1
2022	27.3	173	27.3	39.8	15.8	27.5	26.2
2021	36.1	171	-	-	-	-	100.0
2020	36.2	171	-	-	-	-	71.7
2019	36.2	169	-	-	-	-	89.0
2018	31.1	172	-	-	-	-	64.4
2017	28.3	173	-	-	-	-	48.1
2016	29.8	171	-	-	-	-	39.7
2015	29.8	169	-	-	-	-	47.7
2014	29.1	170	-	-	-	-	-
2013	28.4	171	-	-	-	-	-
2012	98.8	167	-	-	-	-	-
2010	78.0	166	-	-	-	-	-
2009	94.0	170	-	-	-	-	-
2008	88.3	169	-	-	-	-	-
2007	96.2	165	-	-	-	-	-
2006	95.0	165	-	-	-	-	-
2005	87.0	161	-	-	-	-	-

Source: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Press Freedom Index