Cuba has attained the lowest infant mortality rate in its
history, recording only 4.5 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2010. During the
year, there were 127,710 births and less than 45 deaths. The central province
of Villa Clara had the lowest rate of 2.5 deaths per 1,000 live births.
The Cuban Revolution has achieved astonishing results in its
effort to improve the population’s health over the last several decades. This
latest figure suggests that Cuba has the lowest infant mortality rate in the
Americas. The United States, by contrast, has nearly double Cuba’s infant
mortality rate. For Black and Latino children, it is even higher.
The answer to Cuba’s success lies in its socialist
organization of production. In Cuba, society is organized to provide for the
needs of the people, not for the private profit of a handful of billionaires,
like in the U.S. The health care system provides excellent pre-natal care and
enables 99.99 percent of Cuban women to deliver in hospitals.
