A study conducted by Cuban economist and demographicist Juan Carlos Albiz Campos reveals that Cuba has experienced a “demographically empty,” with 24% of its population leaving the country over the past four years, and Spanish communications agency EFE It has been reported on tuesday.
After reviewing EFE, advanced copies of the research, It has been reported It leaves 8,025,624 Cubans still living in the country, based on official data and estimates by Albiz Campos himself. February.
Albizu-Campos warned that such sudden population decline was observed only in the “context of armed conflict,” and asked whether the Cuban situation should be classified as a “demographic or systematic crisis.”
Demographics warned that “emptying demographic skies” in Cuba was due to “quasi-glacial polychrysis,” and emphasized that this dynamic serves as a “canary coal mine” indicator for other variables.
Cuba was forced onto the brink of total doom by more than 60 years of communism under the Castro dynasty, leading to a serious humanitarian crisis that has been exacerbated dramatically since 2021. Collapse Ramp extension of Cuba's infrastructure HungryExtreme poverty and other inhumane circumstances have led to an increase in the number of Cubans in recent years, greater than the 1980 Record of Mariel Exodus and the 1994 Rafter Crisis, and is now widely described as the worst immigration crisis in the country's history.
The EFE reported that 545,011 Cubans left their country in 2024, much higher than the 248,165 reported by the Castro regime, according to Albizu-Campo estimates. Albizu-Campos criticized the number of Cuban regimes that included only US immigrants, ignoring Cubans who left elsewhere.
Previous research published in May 2024 included Albizu-Campos I warned Cuba lost 18% of its population between 2022 and 2023, estimated the remaining population at the time to be 8.62 million. In its latest study, Albizu-Campo questioned the official population figures of the Castro administration, explaining that it does not accurately reflect Cuba's demographic reality and underestimated the actual existing population and the negative effects of migration.
Cuba's population collapse is also characterized by a decline in fertility and an increase in the elderly population. The administration has documented The lowest Over the past 60 years, Cuba's births have been around 71,000 in 2024. Deputy Chief of Cuba's National Statistics and Information Bureau (ONEI) Juan Carlos Alfonso Fraga I insisted At a meeting of Cuban demographic staff, “more than a quarter” of the remaining Cuban residents are over 60 years old.
The Castro administration has not conducted an official census in Cuba since 2012. At the time, communist officials Estimated Cuba's population is 11.16 million – 10,418 fewer than recorded 10 years ago in 2002, but the population is aging at “accelerated speeds.”
The next census was originally scheduled to take place in 2022. According to In Grandmathe official Cuban Communist Party newspaper, the census, was first postponed by the Uhan coronavirus pandemic and then by “previous difficulties” within the country. 2025. Officials from Cuba's ONEI Statistics Bureau claimed that preparations for a census, which is not yet scheduled, are underway in early March.
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