Agency
0.00How able are individuals and organizations to turn an intention into action?
Uses 0 observed indicators.
Missing indicators: Adults doing digital tasks.
Capability agenda
Cuba
Generated 2026-10-03
The frame includes 125 countries. Each dimension is scored from 0 to 100, with no overall ranking, and each score shows its confidence beside it. Read the known limits of the data before you quote a score.
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Where Cuba stands
| Dimension | Score | Confidence | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anticipation | not scored | 0.22 | no trend |
| Agency | not scored | 0.00 | no trend |
| Coordination | not scored | 0.10 | no trend |
| Trust | not scored | 0.07 | no trend |
| Learning | not scored | 0.16 | no trend |
| Experimentation | 1.5 | 0.24 | -0.2 over 10 years using 3 indicators |
| Adaptability | 55.8 | 0.46 | no trend |
| Building | 20.8 | 0.29 | -27.2 over 10 years using 2 indicators |
| Shared Purpose | not scored | 0.00 | no trend |
Score
- weakNear the floor of the frame. Check the confidence before reading anything into it.0 to 25
- below middleIn the lower half of the frame.25 to 50
- above middleIn the upper half of the frame.50 to 75
- strongNear the top of the frame on this dimension.75 and above
Confidence
- very thin0.00 to 0.25
The score rests on one or two indicators. Do not quote it on its own.
- thin0.25 to 0.45
A minority of indicators, or evidence old enough to have moved. Read with care.
- usable0.45 to 0.65
Enough evidence to compare countries, with known holes.
- good0.65 and above
Most indicators observed, recent, from official or intergovernmental sources.
Capability over time
Select a dimension to see how Cuba’s comparable evidence has moved over time. The vertical scale is the current comparison frame, from 0 to 100.
Dimension
Period
Capability position in the current frame0 to 100
Experimentation 1996 → 2026: 4.0 to 0.8 (-3.2) over 30 years using 2 indicators
Historical values use today’s frame from 0 to 100 and a matched basket of indicators. They show movement in the available evidence, not an overall development score. Dated agenda items appear on a separate timeline and do not change the score. A missing line means the evidence does not support a comparable trend for that dimension.
What to measure first
The evidence is too thin to manage these dimensions confidently.
Shared Purpose
0.00To what extent can people imagine themselves as participants in a common project?
Uses 0 observed indicators.
Missing indicators: Sense of national belonging, Volunteering, Political polarisation.
Rejected datasets: Voice and accountability.
Trust
0.07How much cooperation is possible beyond immediate personal networks?
Uses one observed indicator.
Missing indicators: Trust in public institutions, Court case clearance rate.
Rejected datasets: Rule of law, Control of corruption, Intentional homicide rate.
Coordination
0.10How effectively can independent actors organize around shared objectives?
Uses one observed indicator.
Missing indicators: University-industry collaboration, Public-private collaboration.
Rejected datasets: Government effectiveness, Regulatory quality, Logistics performance.
Learning
0.16How effectively does the country acquire, distribute, and update knowledge?
Uses one observed indicator.
Missing indicators: Adult learning participation.
Anticipation
0.22How capable is the country of identifying and preparing for emerging change?
Uses one observed indicator.
Missing indicators: Government foresight capacity, Long-horizon research commitments.
Experimentation
0.24How easily can new approaches be attempted, tested, abandoned, and improved?
Uses 3 observed indicators.
Missing indicators: Venture deals, Firms through regulatory sandboxes, University spinouts.
Rejected datasets: Business share of R&D.
Building
0.29How capable is the country of turning plans and knowledge into functioning systems?
Uses 2 observed indicators.
Missing indicators: Large project delivery, Firm scale-up rate.
Rejected datasets: Logistics infrastructure quality.
What to keep watching
These dimensions score at least 50 with usable evidence.
| Dimension | Score | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| Adaptability | 55.8 | 0.46 |
Missing data
18 requested indicators have no comparable dataset, and each one lowers confidence. A gap can become an indicator when a comparable series covers at least two countries.
| Dimension | Missing indicator | What it asks |
|---|---|---|
| Anticipation | Government foresight capacity | Existence, mandate and continuity of a national strategic foresight function. |
| Anticipation | Long-horizon research commitments | New competitively awarded public research grants that run for five years or longer, as a share of all new competitive public research grants awarded in the year. |
| Agency | Adults doing digital tasks | Share of adults who carried out a named digital task in the last three months, such as sending a message with an attached file, moving a file between devices or using a spreadsheet formula, counted one task at a time and never as a skill level. |
| Coordination | University-industry collaboration | Intensity of research collaboration between universities and firms. |
| Coordination | Public-private collaboration | Frequency and scale of joint public-private delivery of national objectives. |
| Trust | Trust in public institutions | Confidence in national government, courts and civil service. |
| Trust | Court case clearance rate | Civil and commercial cases resolved in a year as a share of cases filed in the same year. |
| Learning | Adult learning participation | Share of adults in formal or non-formal education and training in the last 12 months. |
| Experimentation | Venture deals | First venture capital rounds closed by companies based in the country in the year, per million people, counted by deal and never by amount. |
| Experimentation | Firms through regulatory sandboxes | Firms admitted to, and firms completing, a regulatory sandbox or controlled trial regime in the year, per million people, summed across every regulator in the country. |
| Experimentation | University spinouts | Companies formed to commercialise university research, per million people. |
| Adaptability | Disaster preparedness and recovery | Demonstrated capacity to prepare for and recover from major shocks. |
| Adaptability | Institutional responsiveness | Speed at which rules and public programmes are changed in response to new conditions. |
| Building | Large project delivery | Cost and schedule performance of major public infrastructure projects. |
| Building | Firm scale-up rate | Share of young firms reaching significant employment or turnover thresholds. |
| Shared Purpose | Sense of national belonging | Reported identification with and attachment to the national community, as distinct from pride in the nation. |
| Shared Purpose | Volunteering | Share of adults who volunteered time to an organisation in the last month. |
| Shared Purpose | Political polarisation | Degree to which political differences run along a single hostile divide. |
What the indicators miss about Cuba
Documented deliveries linked to missing indicators. They do not affect scores or confidence.
- National COVID-19 vaccination campaign (Adaptability)
Cuba's national COVID-19 vaccination campaign had given at least one vaccine dose to 94% of the country's population by 31 December 2021, according to the Pan American Health Organization.
- Civil Defence hurricane evacuation system (Adaptability)
Cuba's Civil Defence system and the provincial and municipal Defence Councils it activates evacuated and protected more than 735,000 people across eastern Cuba ahead of Hurricane Melissa, which struck as a Category 3 storm on 29 October 2025, according to UN OCHA.
- Tarea Ordenamiento's single exchange rate, and its fragmentation (Adaptability)
On 1 January 2021 Cuba's government replaced its dual-currency system with a single exchange rate of 24 pesos per dollar for the whole economy. By 1 October 2026 the Central Bank of Cuba published three official dollar rates, of 24, 120 and 689 pesos.
- Campaña Nacional de Alfabetización (Learning)
In 1961 Cuba's national literacy campaign mobilized volunteer teachers, student brigades and worker brigades to teach adults to read across the country. By 30 August 1961, 593,651 people were learning and 64,253 had already been made literate, and the government reported illiteracy reduced to 3.92 percent of the population when the campaign closed.
- Programa Nacional de la Vivienda, and its collapse (Building)
Cuba's national housing programme, run by the Ministry of Construction under the housing policy presented in 2018 to close a deficit of 929,695 homes in ten years, completed 20,232 homes in 2022 and 5,493 in 2025, of which the state built 1,791.
Contribute
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