| Population | 11,032,343 (July 2021 est.) |
| Nationality | noun: Cuban(s) adjective: Cuban |
| Ethnic groups | White 64.1%, Mulatto or mixed 26.6%, Black 9.3% (2012 est.) note: data represent racial self-identification from Cuba's 2012 national census |
| Languages | Spanish (official) major-language sample(s): La Libreta Informativa del Mundo, la fuente indispensable de información básica. (Spanish) The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information. |
| Religions | Christian 58.9%, folk religion 17.6%, Buddhist <1%, Hindu <1%, Jewish <1%, Muslim <1%, other <1%, none 23.2% (2020 est.) note: folk religions include religions of African origin, spiritualism, and others intermingled with Catholicism or Protestantism; data is estimative because no authoritative source on religious affiliation exists in Cuba |
| Age structure | 0-14 years: 16.34% (male 929,927/female 877,035) 15-24 years: 11.81% (male 678,253/female 627,384) 25-54 years: 41.95% (male 2,335,680/female 2,303,793) 55-64 years: 14.11% (male 760,165/female 799,734) 65 years and over: 15.8% (male 794,743/female 952,348) (2020 est.) |
| Dependency ratios | total dependency ratio: 46.7 youth dependency ratio: 23.3 elderly dependency ratio: 23.3 potential support ratio: 4.3 (2020 est.) |
| Median age | total: 42.1 years male: 40.2 years female: 43.8 years (2020 est.) |
| Population growth rate | -0.23% (2021 est.) |
| Birth rate | 10.25 births/1,000 population (2021 est.) |
| Death rate | 9.22 deaths/1,000 population (2021 est.) |
| Net migration rate | -3.32 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2021 est.) |
| Population distribution | large population clusters found throughout the country, the more significant ones being in the larger towns and cities, particularly the capital of Havana |
| Urbanization | urban population: 77.3% of total population (2021) rate of urbanization: 0.19% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
| Major cities - population | 2.143 million HAVANA (capital) (2021) |
| Sex ratio | at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female 0-14 years: 1.06 male(s)/female 15-24 years: 1.08 male(s)/female 25-54 years: 1.01 male(s)/female 55-64 years: 0.95 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.83 male(s)/female total population: 0.99 male(s)/female (2020 est.) |
| Maternal mortality rate | 36 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.) |
| Infant mortality rate | total: 4.19 deaths/1,000 live births male: 4.72 deaths/1,000 live births female: 3.63 deaths/1,000 live births (2021 est.) |
| Life expectancy at birth | total population: 79.41 years male: 77.04 years female: 81.92 years (2021 est.) |
| Total fertility rate | 1.71 children born/woman (2021 est.) |
| Contraceptive prevalence rate | 69% (2019) |
| Drinking water source | improved: urban: 98.2% of population rural: 94.5% of population total: 97.4% of population unimproved: urban: 1.8% of population rural: 5.5% of population total: 2.6% of population (2017 est.) |
| Health expenditures | 11.2% (2018) |
| Physicians density | 8.42 physicians/1,000 population (2018) |
| Hospital bed density | 5.3 beds/1,000 population (2017) |
| Sanitation facility access | improved: urban: 96.1% of population rural: 94.8% of population total: 95.8% of population unimproved: urban: 3.9% of population rural: 5.2% of population total: 4.2% of population (2017 est.) |
| HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate | 0.4% (2020 est.) |
| HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS | 33,000 (2020 est.) |
| HIV/AIDS - deaths | <500 (2020 est.) |
| Major infectious diseases | degree of risk: intermediate (2020) food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea and hepatitis A vectorborne diseases: dengue fever |
| Obesity - adult prevalence rate | 24.6% (2016) |
| Children under the age of 5 years underweight | 2.4% (2019) |
| Education expenditures | 12.8% of GDP (2010) |
| Literacy | definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99.8% male: 99.9% female: 99.8% (2015) |
| School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education) | total: 14 years male: 14 years female: 15 years (2018) |
| People - note | illicit emigration is a continuing problem; Cubans attempt to depart the island and enter the US using homemade rafts, alien smugglers, direct flights, or falsified visas; Cubans also use non-maritime routes to enter the US including direct flights to Miami and overland via the southwest border; the number of Cubans migrating to the US surged after the announcement of normalization of US-Cuban relations in late December 2014 but has decreased since the end of the so-called "wet-foot, dry-foot" policy on 12 January 2017 |
Source: CIA World Factbook
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