Cuba could lose half its population by 2100, U.N. says - UPI.com

With more than 25% of its citizens aging and a steady loss of young workers, Cuba faces a critical scenario of structural depopulation that is pushing the country toward an economic and labor crisis. File Photo by Ernesto Mastrascusa/EPA

July 2 (UPI) -- Cuba is heading toward an irreversible demographic contraction and could end the century with just 5.6 million residents, according to data from the United Nations Population Fund and Cuba's National Office of Statistics and Information.

The information, presented this week in Havana, indicates the island could lose nearly half its population by 2100 because of an extreme demographic crisis.

With more than 25% of its citizens aging and a steady loss of young workers, Cuba faces a critical scenario of structural depopulation that is pushing the country toward an economic and labor crisis.

According to records from the National Office of Statistics and Information, known as ONEI, Cuba has already fallen from more than 11 million residents officially reported in 2020 to a current real population below 10 million.