The Greying of Cuba

Edited by Juan Leandro
2013-11-15 13:37:29

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Havana, November 15 (RHC)-- Cuba is one of the countries in Latin America that has retirement age citizens and by the year 2050 it will be one of the leading countries in the World in that respect.

18.3% of all Cubans are over 60 years of age. Two million and forty one thousand, 393 are senior citizens, according to the results of National census taken in October.

Doctor Alberto Fernández, Chief of the Elder Adults Department at the Cuban Ministry of Public Health said that low birth rates and an increase in life expectancy are the main causes of the progressive greying of the Cuban Population.

Life expectancy in Cuba is 76 for men and 80 women.

These figures indicate that since 2010 Cuba has lacked sufficient replacement of its productive population, because the curve of newborns to 14-year-olds has joined that of those reaching sixty years of age.


 



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