{"id":99,"date":"2008-06-01T20:11:07","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T02:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=99"},"modified":"2008-06-06T12:15:20","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T18:15:20","slug":"cubas-declining-and-ageing-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/cubas-declining-and-ageing-population-99.htm","title":{"rendered":"Cuba&#8217;s Declining and Ageing Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Not only developed countries like Germany are facing depopulation. Cuba\u2019s demographic decline has already begin according to <em>El Pais\u2019s<\/em> article \u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elpais.com\/articulo\/internacional\/poblacion\/cubana\/decrece\/tercer\/ano\/consecutivo\/elpepuint\/20080601elpepuint_10\/Tes\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: Times New Roman;\">La poblaci\u00f3n Cubana decrece por tercer a\u00f1o consecutive\u201d <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">(&#8220;The Cuban Population Decreases for the Third Year in a Row&#8221;).<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>The decline is accelerating (un ritmo acelerado). In 2025 there will be 74,000 Cubans fewer than in 2024.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Cuba has good public health statistics \u2013 an average life span of 77 (as opposed to 71 in Latin America) and a low infant death rate 5 per thousand live births (as opposed to 23 per 1000 in Latin America) but it also has a low birth rate, <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>1.43 (as opposed to 2.4 for the region). The replacement rate is 2.1. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Even more seriously, the population is aging. At present 16.6 % of the population is over 60 years old; by 2025 the percentage of the population over 60 will be 26%. By 2025 Cuba will have 772,000 fewer citizens of school age than it has now.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">In other words, <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u201cel pa\u00eds estar\u00e1 pronto entre los m\u00e1s &#8216;viejos&#8217; del planeta ,\u201d the country will soon be among the oldest on the planet, with all that means for care of the elderly.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: \"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">The<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> government has promised to take unspecified steps to stop the population decline<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-99\" data-postid=\"99\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-99 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Not only developed countries like Germany are facing depopulation. Cuba\u2019s demographic decline has already begin according to El Pais\u2019s article \u201cLa poblaci\u00f3n Cubana decrece por tercer a\u00f1o consecutive\u201d (&#8220;The Cuban Population Decreases for the Third Year in a Row&#8221;). The decline is accelerating (un ritmo acelerado). In 2025 there will be 74,000 Cubans fewer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,23],"tags":[1137,92,82],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cuba","category-population","tag-cuba","tag-demographics","tag-depopulation","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}