Where have Cuba?s people gone?
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🗓️ 31 August 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The Cuban government has announced that their population has fallen by 10% in two years ? just days after a demographer on the Caribbean island suggested an even bigger fall.
But which is the right number, and why are so many people leaving?
We speak to Dr Emily Morris from University College London and Dr Jorge Duany from the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University.
Presenter: Kate Lamble Producer: Beth Ashmead Latham Series producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Katie Morrison Sound mix: Sue Maillot Editor: Richard Vadon
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| 0:41.2 | We're the show which does a double take at the numbers in the news and in life. |
| 0:42.6 | And I'm Kate Lamble. |
| 0:47.9 | This week, we need to turn to the Caribbean island of Cuba, |
| 0:50.5 | because there's something strange going on. |
| 0:59.0 | This is the deputy director of Cuba's National Office of Statistics and Information, telling the country's National Assembly that the Cuban population has dropped by more than a million people in just two years. |
| 1:06.0 | That's just over 10% of the population. |
| 1:09.0 | Gone. |
| 1:10.0 | 10% of the population. Gone. |
| 1:20.4 | Days earlier, a Cuban demographer had estimated the number was even higher, |
| 1:26.7 | suggesting the population had fallen by 18% or more than 1.8 million people. |
| 1:31.1 | Whichever is right, it's a huge loss for any population. |
| 1:34.2 | This level of loss is unseen. |
| 1:37.6 | It's never happened in Cuba or in many other countries, in fact, |
| 1:41.8 | unless you're talking about civil war or natural disasters. |
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