The field of research that seeks to understand the relationship between culture and preferences for risk and time has developed over the past ten years. However, the number of studies using a significant sample of countries, making it possible to compare across nations, is still small. Furthermore, the existing works use the same culture construct, that of Hofstede (2001). Thus, this study aimed to identify, through a cross-country analysis of 24 nations, whether the culture construct of Gelfand et al (2001) is related to risk and time preferences. In addition, the relationship between culture, risk and patience with economic, demographic and health indicators were investigated. In order to achieve the goal, the data on risk and patience from Falk et al (2018), the construct of tight and loose cultures proposed by Gelfand et al (2011) and indicators collected on the World Bank and Transparency International websites were used. After analyzing the results no relationship was found between the Gelfand culture construct and patience or risk taking. However, associations were detected between the type of culture, tight or loose, with general mortality rate, infant mortality rate and teenage pregnancy rate. When examining patience, it is observed that this index is associated with GDP per capita, according to the results of Falk et al (2018) and Wang et al (2016), and with the overall mortality rate.