Cuba’s communist regime admitted over the weekend that there are fewer than 10 million Cubans left living in the country after the island nation lost more than 300,000 of its inhabitants in 2024 — a year that also marked the lowest birthrates recorded in Cuba in the past six decades.
On Saturday, Juan Carlos Alfonso Fraga, deputy chief of Cuba’s National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI), explained at a meeting of the Cuban Government Commission for Attention to Demographic Dynamics that the country ended 2024 with an effective population of 9,748,532 inhabitants — more than 300,000 less than the 10,055,968 that regime officials estimated in 2023. Of the remaining total, Alfonso Fraga pointed out, “more than a quarter” are individuals 60 years old or older.
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