Over the weekend, Cuban Communist regime admitted that fewer than 10 million Cubans live in the country after the island nation lost more than 300,000 residents in 2024. The lowest The fertility rate recorded in Cuba over the past 60 years.
Juan Carlos Alfonso Fraga, deputy chief of Cuba's National Statistics and Information Agency (ONEI), on Saturday. I explained it At the Cuban Government Commission meeting for attention to demographic dynamics that the country ended in 2024, the effective population of 9,748,532 residents, more than 300,000 fewer than the 10,055,968 estimated by government officials. 2023. Of the remaining total, Alfonso Fraga noted that “over quarter” is an individual over the age of 60.
Alfonso Fraga also announced that Cuba had only registered about 71,000 births in 2024, pointing out that the number of deaths has “increased” in an unspecified amount. Administration officials were unable to provide numerical data on increased deaths, or Grandmathe official Cuban Communist Party newspaper chose to omit the data in its report.
As Cuba's elderly population continues to grow, children, adolescents and “young people reach school age from primary to higher education” and “people reaching reproductive, defense and working age” have declined. I'll continue. As a result, administration officials reportedly emphasized the urgency to “plan and design of economic and social development strategies from local governments to national.”
According to GrandmaAntonio Aja Diaz, director of the Demographic Research Center at the University of Havana, noted that the demographic situation in Cuba is “a reality that will be addressed, not a problem to be faced.” AjaDíaz highlighted the need to analyze the outcomes and impacts of demographic situations on the country's economic and social strategies, its territory, and the institutions of the central state government.
“We have to think about population, because we make designs many times and think about populations. We can't do that in this situation,” Aja Diaz said.
Cuba is experiencing a continuous collapse of its population. This was one of many consequences left by the disastrous communist policies of over 60 years that enacted the country, and was enacted by the Castro government, which pushed the country into a nation. Brink of total ruin. It is estimated that over 90% of the population live in extreme situations povertythe number of Cubans increases and cleaning garbage To find something to eat.
By the end of March 2023, the Castro system will be established. Estimated Cuba has only over 11.08 million residents, more than 1.33 million people than ONEI's latest statistics. Experts I warned In July 2024, Cuba lost 18% of its population between 2022 and 2023.
When the 2023 report was published, Cuban authorities registered 95,403 in 2022 and 99,096 in 2021. . At the time, they warned that Cuba's population could fall to less than 9 million by 2054.
Due to the continued collapse of Cuba and the country's dramatic humanitarian crisis, what is now widely mentioned as the worst immigration crisis in the country's history, larger than Mariel Exodus in 1980 and the 1994s. Hundred thousand Cubans began to flee communism. Rafter crisis. Over 850,000 Cuban immigrants It is reportedly It arrived in the United States between 2022 and 2023, citing statistics from the Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP).
Despite the ongoing collapse of Cuba's population, the Castro administration introduced changes to the country's health law in late December 2023. Euthanasia In the country, some legislation is reportedly described as “the right of the people to a dignified death.”
Christian K. Calzo is a Venezuelan writer and documents life under socialism. You can follow him on Twitter here.
