Currently the population Effective of Cuba is just over 9 million 700 thousand people, according to data offered during the review of the country’s demographic dynamics this Friday.
The island has 9 748 532 inhabitants at the end of December 31, 2024, which in absolute growth number, represents more than 300 thousand people less than in 2023, said Juan Carlos Alfonso Faga, VICEIZEFE of the Onei, in the commission Government that meets the subject.
He Report De Channel Caribe indicates that according to preliminary figures, more than a quarter of the Cuban population is 60 years old and over, and that it is the only population group that grows in recent years.
Alfonso Faga explained that in 2024 around 71 thousand births were registered, the lowest figure of the last decades, for which the Government will give priority to fertility programs and the Maternal Child Program.
Last December it was learned that the Cuban population had decreased in 2024 for migration and a greater number of deaths than births. It also transpired that it maintains its tendency to aging, when 24.4 % of people had already been reached 60 years or older, According to a government report.
Then, during an intervention in the last annual session of Parliament, the Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero, described as “complex” the Cuban demographic situation and considered that the calculation of the effective population ratifies the “deep change” in the population structure of the country ”
At that time, the official said that for every thousand people from 0 to 14 years, there are 1,511 of 60 years or more. He also added that since 2019 a natural decrease in the population is reported, when more people who are born, and consequently said that this situation is expected to continue accentuating the closure of 2024.
In 2023, the Cuban population registered about 90 300 births, the lowest figure of the last six decades, according to official media reports.
The prime minister acknowledged that in the country “the migration trend is maintained abroad” and said that more than three million Cubans are calculated living abroad, half of which have residence in the country, while 1.1 million It has no effective residence on the island.
The Cuban population decreases and ages, confirms the government
Meanwhile, in July 2024, a study by the renowned Cuban economist and demograph Official statistics in this regard.
The calculation is based on the figures of Cubans that arrived in the United States between October 2021 and April 2024, which amounts to 738 680 people.
The official Cuban figures do not shed enough light on the recent migratory act. In the first place because Cuba only recognizes a citizen as emigrated when they spend 24 months of his departure from the country.
Secondly, because the crisis has caused the realization of the realization of the census of population, which was planned to be done in 2022.
The VICEIZEFE DE LA ONEI, Juan Carlos Alfonso, assured in an interview to EFE that the purpose of his department is to carry out the census in 2025. He also recognized that they have emigration estimates, but that they are not published.
