Living in Cuba: People
Population of Cuba
11,184,023 (July 2001 estimate), (Havana 2,200,000- 1997 estimate)
Population growth rate
0.37% (2001 est.)
Age structure
0-14 years: 20.99% (male 1,205,159; female 1,142,070).
15-64 years: 69.14% (male 3,876,432; female 3,855,878).
65 years and over: 9.87% (male 511,589; female 592,895) (2001 est.)
Illicit migration to the US
Using homemade rafts or falsified visas - is a continuing problem. Some 3,000 Cubans took to the Straits of Florida in 2000. Cuban exiles maintain an extensive website.
Ethnic groups
Mulatto 51%.
White 37%.
Black 11%.
Chinese 1%.
Religions
Nominally 85% Roman Catholic prior to Castro assuming power; Protestants, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jews , Chinese religions and Santeria are also represented
Literacy
(age 15 and over can read and write): total population: 95.7%: male: 96.2%, female: 95.3% (1995 est.)
Internet users
60,000 (2000) although in 2004, the government restricted access to the internet to telephone lines which are paid for in dollars. The government argued that, given its limited resources, it needed to ensure that the internet was primarily used for the social good.