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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located in the northern Caribbean where the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean meet. It is east of the Yucatán Peninsula, south of both the U.S. state of Florida and the Bahamas, west of Haiti and north of both Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Source: Wikipedia

Area of Cuba 112,935.7 km²
Population 11.3 million
Male Population 5,634,797 (49.9%)
Female Population 5,661,604 (50.1%)
Population change from 1975 to 2015 +20.8%
Population change from 2000 to 2015 +2.4%
Median Age 39.5 years
Male Median Age 38.5 years
Female Median Age 40.4 years
Timezone Cuba Daylight Time

Map of Cuba

Population Over Time

Years 1975 to 2015
Data1975199020002015
Population 9,354,501 10,495,260 11,031,112 11,296,412
Population Density 82.8 / km² 92.9 / km² 97.7 / km² 100.0 / km²
Sources: JRC (European Commission's Joint Research Centre) work on the GHS built-up grid

Population By Age and Gender

Cuba Population Tree
AgeMaleFemaleTotal
Under 5 324,806 306,924 631,730
5-9 309,002 291,549 600,552
10-14 366,320 344,823 711,144
15-19 368,116 343,998 712,115
20-24 431,794 404,208 836,003
25-29 393,330 370,884 764,214
30-34 321,914 308,505 630,419
35-39 426,112 421,887 848,000
40-44 510,406 516,077 1,026,483
45-49 517,669 536,195 1,053,865
50-54 383,389 400,492 783,881
55-59 305,647 325,777 631,425
60-64 277,530 293,921 571,452
65-69 233,214 253,604 486,819
70-74 184,843 200,816 385,660
75-79 125,469 142,764 268,234
80-84 83,051 98,889 181,941
85 Plus 72,184 100,290 172,474
Sources: CIESIN (Center for International Earth Science Information Network)

Historical Population

Estimated Population from 1760 to 2015
YearEst. PopulationAvg 10 Year Growth %Avg 10 Year Growth
1800 432,492 n/a n/a
1900 1,608,643 14% 117,615
1910 2,122,273 31.9% 513,630
1920 2,929,765 38% 807,492
1930 3,843,335 31.2% 913,570
1940 4,289,040 11.6% 445,705
1950 5,921,209 38.1% 1,632,169
1960 7,157,840 20.9% 1,236,631
1970 8,762,603 22.4% 1,604,763
1990 10,495,260 9.4% 866,328
2000 11,031,112 5.1% 535,852
Sources:
1. JRC (European Commission's Joint Research Centre) work on the GHS built-up grid
2. CIESIN (Center for International Earth Science Information Network)
3. [Link] Klein Goldewijk, K., Beusen, A., Doelman, J., and Stehfest, E.: Anthropogenic land use estimates for the Holocene – HYDE 3.2, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 9, 927–953, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-927-2017, 2017.

Human Development Index (HDI)

Statistic composite index of life expectancy, education, and per capita income.
Sources: [Link] Kummu, M., Taka, M. & Guillaume, J. Gridded global datasets for Gross Domestic Product and Human Development Index over 1990–2015. Sci Data 5, 180004 (2018) doi:10.1038/sdata.2018.4
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