Cuba — Market Overview
🇨🇺 Cuba
Cuba does not operate like a conventional listed market, so the country page is best read as a macro dashboard centered on tourism flows, import capacity, inflation, and the government's external financing constraints. The cleanest read usually comes from tourism and services recovery, foreign-exchange availability, and whether domestic shortages and inflation are easing enough to stabilize the consumer backdrop.
Carte régionale
Faits clés
Cuba en un coup d'œil
Capital
Currency
Primary exchange
Central bank
Region
Time zone
Country dashboard
Pourquoi ce marché compte
This first pass is built as a reusable country page instead of a static essay. The page now combines a stylized country map, a switchable line-chart explorer, and linked peer countries so users can move from Cuba into the rest of the region without losing the macro frame.
Explorateur macro
Changez de variable, gardez le contexte du pays
GDP, inflation, labor, policy, and industrial activity are shown on a quarterly path from 2000 onward, while debt and the local equity benchmark come in when usable history exists. This keeps the page focused on fiscal room and macro regime while the broader official country pipeline keeps expanding.
Real GDP growth
Cuba starter GDP-growth path anchored to sourced country profile readings; full official historical wiring is still pending.
Variables disponibles
Commerce et position extérieure
Exportations, services et balance extérieure
Plutôt qu'un mur générique de cartes macro, cette section se concentre sur la manière dont le pays attire la demande étrangère, où se situe son avantage commercial et comment évolue sa balance extérieure.
The full export figure, combining goods and services in one line. It is the cleanest way to read how much external demand Cuba is capturing across both physical products and higher-value intangible flows.
This is the merchandise side of exports: industrial supplies, capital goods, autos, food, and other physical products. It matters because it reflects the health of manufacturing, energy, aerospace, and the broader global industrial cycle.
This is the intangible side: finance, travel, licensing, business services, and IP-linked flows. It matters because it shows where Cuba is strongest in higher-margin, knowledge-intensive, and branded service activities.
Partenaires commerciaux
Où le pays commerce
Prisme des matières premières
Exposition aux matières premières
Trade in goods and services equaled 124.9% of GDP in 2024. This is a quick read on how externally exposed the economy is.
Manufactures accounted for 7.8% of merchandise exports in 2022.
Fuel exports accounted for 5.7% of merchandise exports in 2021, useful for reading commodity exposure.
Food exports accounted for 30.7% of merchandise exports in 2022, adding context on agricultural exposure.
Source : World Bank API: totalExports,
Ce qu'il faut surveiller
Grille de lecture
tourism receipts
Cuba should first be read through tourism receipts. When this regime shifts, local multiples and sector leadership usually shift with it.
foreign-exchange availability
The cleanest read usually comes from tourism and services recovery, foreign-exchange availability, and whether domestic shortages and inflation are easing enough to stabilize the consumer backdrop. That makes foreign-exchange availability one of the most important signals for revising the country narrative.
domestic inflation pressure
The final layer is domestic inflation pressure, because it determines whether the macro backdrop turns into sustainable earnings support for the Domestic state-enterprise proxy.
Autres pays
Poursuivez à travers Americas
Chaque carte ouvre le même modèle de pays avec sa propre carte, des variables macro permutables et une vue de référence. C'est le premier réseau lié de pages pays de la région.
Americas
🇦🇷 Argentina
A high-volatility market where inflation, FX regimes, and policy credibility dominate every other valuation input.
Americas
🇧🇷 Brazil
A large cyclical market driven by commodities, domestic rates, fiscal credibility, and the direction of local risk appetite.
Americas
🇨🇦 Canada
A resource-heavy developed market where banks, energy, mining, and housing sensitivity shape the equity narrative.
Americas
🇨🇱 Chile
A small open market where copper, domestic rates, and pension-system liquidity shape valuation cycles.
Americas
🇲🇽 Mexico
A near-shoring beneficiary whose equity story runs through manufacturing integration, domestic rates, and peso credibility.
Americas
🇺🇸 United States
The deepest public market in the world, with unmatched liquidity and disclosure density.
Real GDP growth
Ce que cela signale
GDP growth is published quarterly and annualized, so each point captures how fast real output was expanding or contracting versus the prior quarter at an annual rate. It matters because it is the broadest scorecard of domestic economic momentum and sets the backdrop for revenues, employment, and policy expectations. Versus a year ago, the series is higher by 9.1%, which points to an improving or firmer backdrop on this measure. Across the displayed window, the broader trend is still downward.