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Cuba had already lost well over a million of her sons and daughters following the communist takeover in 1959. Until then, Cuba had been a place of im migrants, not a country of e migrants.
Although it’s clear that emigration in Cuba has taken off since 2021, official reports and government data describe a current population of just over 11 million who still live in the country ...
Cuba’s population in freefall as Biden-Harris open border sparks mass exodus By Mike Gonzalez Published July 28, 2024, 6:07 a.m. ET ...
With Cuba’s infrastructure collapsing, its currency in the dumps, and its Communist government unresponsive, the island’s mood is turning ever darker, with large street protests being held against ...
Seventy percent of Cuba’s population now has power, four days after a nationwide blackout triggered by the collapse of the island’s largest power plant, and as the country recovers from ...
That U.N. study shows Cuba’s population is aging even faster than that of China, which has forbidden couples to have more than one child. Cuba’s rate would be typical in a wealthy European nation.
HAVANA (Reuters) -Cuba's government said late on Saturday it had restored power to nearly one-fifth of the island's people after the national grid collapsed twice in 24 hours, plunging millions of ...
Cuba has not experienced a similar drop since the 19th century, when the population shrank as a result of the 1833 cholera epidemic, the Ten Year War of 1868-78 and the final war of independence ...
Now even that is harder to do. Faced with an aging population and a life expectancy of 77.3 years, nearly the same as the U.S., Cuba’s government has raised the retirement threshold by five years, to ...
Demographers agree that Cuba's population has topped out around 11.2 million, and negative growth will be the rule for the foreseeable future.
The aging of Cuba’s population has its roots in some of the core achievements of Fidel Castro’s revolution, including a universal health care system that has increased life expectancy from 69 ...