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Cuba

10,937,203

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-42.58K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000-1.5%from 11.11M
Life expectancy78.3 years2024
Fertility rate1.45births per woman · 2024
Urban population77.2%2025
RegionLatin America & Caribbean Upper middle income

A country at every age

How Cuba is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1415.0%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6467.9%Working-age population
Ages 65+17.0%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate8.6births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate10.4deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-1.8births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-22.24Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Cuba look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 9.38M in 2050—14.6% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202410.98M
  2. 20509.38M
  3. 21005.58M
Median age in 205049.9years
Births in 205067.4Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050142.16Kduring the year
Life expectancy82.6years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19607.24M
  2. 19708.82M
  3. 19809.8M
  4. 199010.63M
  5. 200011.11M
  6. 201011.3M
  7. 202011.18M
  8. 202510.94M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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