Country profile · CUB

Cuba

In Cuba, 3 of the 7 principal vector species are recorded present, with no reported malaria burden.

3 / 7
vector species recorded
None
no reported malaria
17
research works (author affiliation)
Yes
both Aedes (within band)

Country facts

Dimension data reconciled to ISO-3166. Population and classifications from the World Bank.
Region
Latin America & Caribbean
Income group
Upper middle income
Population
10,937,203
ISO codes
CUB · CU

Vector presence

GBIF occurrence records for the 7 principal vectors. A count is records, not abundance.
3 of 7 recorded
Read this honestly
GBIF is presence-only and effort-biased. A 0 / no record means no occurrence has been digitised for Cuba, not that the species is absent, under-surveyed countries look emptier than they are. Country-level presence is the reliable layer.

Disease burden

WHO Global Health Observatory, latest available reporting year per country.
Malaria
estimated cases per year
No data
not endemic / unreported
Yellow fever
reported cases
0
reported 2024
Japanese encephalitis
reported cases
0
reported 2019
Null is not zero
No data means the indicator is not reported or the disease is not endemic, it is never shown as 0. A real reported 0 is kept as 0. WHO GHO carries no global dengue dataset, Aedes-borne risk is proxied by competent-vector presence above, not case counts.

Risk classification

A Mosticare-derived first filter, competent-vector presence within the climatic band.
Class
both Aedes (within band)
Vector richness
3 of 7
Aedes present
Yes
Malaria endemic
No
What this is not
The class combines vector presence with a coarse |latitude| ≤ 45 climatic envelope. It is a first filter for transmission plausibility, not a calibrated environmental-suitability model. Do not read it as measured risk.

Interventions in play

Engineered-intervention research targeting the vectors recorded in Cuba. Global research activity, not trials on this country’s soil.
Wolbachia 161 · SIT / IIT 144 · GM release 128 · Gene drive 85
518
works
SIT / IIT 20 · Wolbachia 16 · Gene drive 14 · GM release 13
63
works
SIT / IIT 70 · Wolbachia 50 · GM release 42 · Gene drive 35
197
works
Mosticare Ühing (2026). Mosquito Intelligence Atlas, vector distribution, disease burden, and engineered-intervention literature. Derived from GBIF, WHO GHO, World Bank, OpenAlex and Natural Earth. https://www.mosticare.org/atlas
Data vintage 2026-07-12. Independent of the funded programmes.