How many people are imprisoned in Cuba?

Cuba's prison population is 90,000 people. This figure aggregates all forms of detention counted by the source: sentenced prisoners, pre-trial detainees, and administrative detentions.

What is the incarceration rate in Cuba?

Cuba's incarceration rate is approximately 794 people per 100,000 population.

How many prisons are there in Cuba?

World Prisons indexes 77 individual facilities in Cuba. Each entry links to a detail page with contact information, capacity, oversight reports, and known conditions.

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Q: Does Cuba have the death penalty?

Cuba's death-penalty status is: retentionist. Seeded from Amnesty International 2024 categorisation + Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide.

High confidence

Verified 20 May 2026 · Data dated 1 Jan 2020

Aging · 5mo ago

WPB estimate; Cuba does not publish a formal annual figure. Includes inmates in 'open regime' work centres.

Compare Cuba World Prison Brief page

Data is aggregated from public sources and may be incomplete or out of date. Always verify with primary sources before acting on any figure. See data sources.

Prison population

90,000

Year: 2020

Rate per 100,000

794

Per 100,000 residents

Occupancy

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At or under capacity

Pre-trial / remand

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Share not yet sentenced

Female prisoners

3.5%

Foreign nationals

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Figures from official sources · verified 20 May 2026 · methodology

Conditions risk — across 77 facilities

Average of our computed Conditions Risk Score across the country's facilities. Methodology · Browse highest-risk

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national average

77 unknown

retentionist on capital punishment. Last known execution: 2003.Methods: firing squadICCPR-OP2 (death-penalty abolition protocol): not a signatory

Seeded from Amnesty International 2024 categorisation + Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide.

Source: Amnesty International + Cornell Death Penalty Worldwide.

How Cuba compares

vs Americas (9) & global averages

Rate per 100,000this: 794 · region: 457 · global: 214

The vertical ticks mark the global (grey) and regional (amber) means. Bars are clipped at the high end for readability.

Prison population over time

Annual figures, latest survey year

2003: 55,000+63.6% over 17y2020: 90,000

Source: World Prison Brief / unodc

What we know — and don't

Transparency about the boundaries of this data. Click sources where linked.

What we don't know

Occupancy, pre-trial share, capacity figures not publicly released since 2012.

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Held

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See all 77 prisons in Cuba →

Data completeness

70%

Score based on how many fields are populated. We surface this so you know where the gaps are.

National population: 11,330,0002020
Source-verified: 20 May 2026
Source links: 2 cited

Sources

Direct citations for the figures on this page.

Primary reference
World Prison Brief (ICPS, Birkbeck) — Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research
Amnesty International â country pages — Amnesty International
See /data-sources for our methodology.

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: CUB

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APA

World Prisons. (2026). Cuba — prison statistics. Retrieved October 14, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/countries/cuba

Chicago

"Cuba — prison statistics." World Prisons. Accessed October 14, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/countries/cuba.

BibTeX

@misc{worldprisons-cuba,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Cuba — prison statistics},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/countries/cuba},
  urldate = {2026-10-14}
}