Cuba before the Revolution and today:
-- Infant mortality rate: before, over 100 per one thousand live births today, 5.9, well below the United States
-- Life expectancy at birth: before, 57 years; today, 76.
-- Number of doctors: before, 344; today, 10, 334.
-- Health units: before, 46; today, 4,006.
-- Hospital beds: before, 1,470; today, over 12,000.
-- Schoolteachers: before, 1,682; today, 77,479.
-- Universities: before, 0; today, 12.
-- Illiteracy rate: before, 40.3%; today, 0.2%.
-- Grammar school graduates: before, 10% of only 34 percent of children in school age who attended public school; today, one hundred percent of children attend grammar school and 99.9% graduate.
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