How is Cuba different to Australia?

Answer 1

Geographical reasons:

Cuba is located in the Caribbean Sea, North America, and the Western Hemisphere. Australia is located on Australia/Oceania and the Eastern Hemisphere.

Australia is also 7,692,024 km2 while Cuba is 109,884 km2, meaning about 70 Cubas could fit in Australia.

Political reasons:

Australia is a capitalistic country while Cuba claims to be communist. Australia's government is defined as a Federal Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy while Cuba's is defined as a Unitary Republic/Communist State. Australia is also primarily English speaking while Cuba is primarily Spanish. Australia's currency is also the Australian dollar while Cuba's is the Cuban Peso.

Statistics:

Australia is much more developed, has a much larger GDP (per capita and nominal/PPP), has a better education system, better health care system, and is much less corruptable. Australia even has a faster growing economy and a faster growing population. The overall population of Australia is also about double that of Cuba. However, Cuba is in much less debt externally, while Australia is in less debt publicly. Australia's unemployment rate is also about 5x that of Cuba's (5% vs. 1%). Australia also pollutes about 13x more than Cuba overall, and per capita it pollutes about 9x more.