In line with the celebration of the Statistical Worker’s Day held yesterday, we will go over the demographic situation in Cuba at the present time.
Cuba’s effective population is currently less than 10 million people and is still tending to decrease, it was learned in the Parliament’s session this Friday.
During the debate that followed the presentation of the draft Migration Law in the plenary session of Parliament, Juan Carlos Alfonso Fraga, deputy chief of the National Statistics and Information Office (ONEI), presented data on Cuba’s effective population to the deputies.
According to ONEI data, as of December 31, 2023, Cuba’s effective population was 10,055,968 people.
Since then, the trend has continued and, given the demographic dynamics registered in the first months of 2024, contraction of the number of births and continuity of the movement of people abroad since the last months of 2023, Cuba’s population is currently less than 10 million inhabitants and should continue decreasing, said the expert.
In the last three years, the mobility of the Cuban population abroad has intensified, with prolonged stays abroad.
This is not reflected in the calculation of the resident population, according to the current methodology, since a significant part of that population is not defined as migrant, according to current legislation (up to two years of stay abroad establishes the Decree Law applied since 2013 and the November 2020 migratory moratorium).
For this reason -explained the first deputy chief of ONEI-, criteria and statistical algorithms were presented, analyzed and approved that modify the current methodological considerations associated with the migration variable, which is used in the calculation of the annual population,
He added that it is a statistical measurement of migration, which has nothing to do with the rights associated with such condition. “The objective is to obtain a migratory balance, in order to, together with births (which add up) and deaths (which subtract), calculate the population of the country and its territories.”
According to ONEI data, as of December 31, 2023, 1,249,733 people remained outside the country. About 75% of them should be discounted from the population, for not having effective residence in the country in the period 2021-2023.
With the consequent calculation (which takes into account natural growth: births and deaths; immigrants; emigrants and migratory balance) the effective Cuban population would be 10,055,968.
Source: cubadebate
