Drinking water services in Cuba

Cuba: Drinking water services was 27,132 people in 2024. ▼ Falling

Latest (2024)
27,132 people
Change on year
down 0.9%
World rank
77th
of 231 countries
All-time high
82,159 people
in 2000
All-time low
27,132 people
in 2024
Years of data
25
2000–2024

Drinking water services in Cuba, 2000–2024

20.0k40.0k60.0k80.0k2000201220242000: 82.2k people2001: 79.4k people2002: 76.6k people2003: 73.9k people2004: 71.5k people2005: 68.9k people2006: 66.4k people2007: 63.8k people2008: 61.2k people2009: 58.6k people2010: 56.0k people2011: 53.4k people2012: 50.8k people2013: 48.3k people2014: 45.7k people2015: 43.2k people2016: 40.7k people2017: 38.2k people2018: 35.6k people2019: 33.1k people2020: 30.5k people2021: 27.9k people2022: 27.6k people2023: 27.4k people2024: 27.1k people

Source: WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (2025) – processed by Our World in Data. Measured in people.

Analysis

Cuba recorded 27,132 people for drinking water services in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 25 years on record.

That represents a change of down 0.9% on the previous year and down 40.7% over ten years.

Over the whole period, drinking water services in Cuba peaked at 82,159 people in 2000 and was at its lowest, 27,132 people, in 2024.

That places Cuba 77th out of 231 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.

The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 25 years of available data.

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
2000s 70,233 people 58,553 people 82,159 people 10
2010s 44,494 people 33,082 people 55,951 people 10
2020s 28,113 people 27,132 people 30,524 people 5

Countries ranked near Cuba

  1. 74 Gabon 48,745 people compare
  2. 75 Panama 46,333 people compare
  3. 76 Solomon Islands 31,324 people compare
  4. 78 Guinea-Bissau 19,415 people compare
  5. 79 Croatia 18,033 people compare
  6. 80 Burkina Faso 16,882 people compare

See the full ranking of 231 places →

More environment data for Cuba

All data for Cuba →

Frequently asked questions

What is drinking water services in Cuba?
Drinking water services in Cuba was 27,132 people in 2024, according to WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (2025) – processed by Our World in Data.
What is the highest drinking water services recorded in Cuba?
The highest recorded value was 82,159 people in 2000.
What is the lowest drinking water services recorded in Cuba?
The lowest recorded value was 27,132 people in 2024.
How does Cuba rank for drinking water services?
Cuba ranks 77th out of 231 countries with data for 2024.
Is drinking water services rising or falling in Cuba?
Over the last ten years it is down 40.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Cuba data come from?
The figures come from WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (2025) – processed by Our World in Data, published as part of Drinking water services. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

Download this data

CSV · JSON — 25 observations, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data).

About this data

Indicator
Drinking water services
Unit
people
Source
WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (2025) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
231 places, 5,429 data points, 2000–2024
Last refreshed

Number of people using drinking water directly collected from surface waters.