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According to the govt. sources, Cuba's population by December 31, 2006 was 11,239,536 compared to 11,243,000 in 2005. Total number of births was 111,084 in 2006 (BR of 9.88) compared to 120,716 (10.74) in 2005. is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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(Official 2002 Cuba Census)[1] | Total | Men | Women | % Of Total | | White | 7,271,926 | 3,618,349 | 3,653,577 | 65.05% | | Black | 1,126,894 | 593,876 | 533,018 | 10.08% | | Mulatto/Mestizo | 2,778,923 | 1,385,008 | 1,393,915 | 24.86% However, there is some controversy with these figures, as the CIA World Factbook reports the White population at 37%, the black population at 11%, and the mulatto population at a dominant 51%. Moreover, these figures fail to take into account the differences in racial classification between North America and Latin America. Studies done in Brazil, the Dominican Republic and Cuba have revealed that a significant number of mixed raced individuals label themselves white. Spaniard redirects here. ...
Mulatto (Spanish mulato, small mule, person of mixed race, mulatto, from mulo, mule, from Old Spanish, from Latin mūlus. ...
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Cuba has a multitude of faiths reflecting the island’s diverse cultural elements. Catholicism, which was brought to the island by Spanish colonialists at the beginning of the 16th century, is the most prevalent professed faith. After the revolution, Cuba became an officially atheistic state and restricted religious practice. Since the Fourth Cuban Communist Party Congress in 1991, restrictions have been eased and, according to the National Catholic Observer, direct challenges by state institutions to the right to religion have all but disappeared,[2] though the church still faces restrictions of written and electronic communication, and can only accept donations from state-approved funding sources.[2] The Roman Catholic Church is made up of the Cuban Catholic Bishops' Conference (COCC), led by Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cardinal Archbishop of Havana.[citation needed] It has eleven dioceses, 56 orders of nuns and 24 orders of priests. In January 1998, Pope John Paul II paid a historic visit to the island, invited by the Cuban government and Catholic Church. Religion in Cuba reflects the island’s diverse cultural elements. ...
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Jaime Lucas Cardinal Ortega y Alamino (born October 18, 1938) is the Archbishop of San Cristóbal de la Havana. ...
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Afro-Cuban religions, a blend of native African religions and Roman Catholicism, are widely practiced in Cuba. This diversity derives from West and Central Africans who were transported to Cuba, and in effect reinvented their African religions. They did so by combining them with elements of the Catholic belief system, with a result very similar to Brazil
Protestantism, introduced from the United States in the 18th century, has seen a steady increase in popularity. 300,000 Cubans belong to the island’s 54 Protestant denominations. Pentecostalism has grown rapidly in recent years, and the Assemblies of God alone claims a membership of over 100,000 people. The Episcopal Church of Cuba claims 10,000 adherents. Cuba has small communities of Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and members of the Bahá'í Protestantism encompasses the forms of Christian faith and practice that originated with the doctrines of the Reformation. ...
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The Iglesia Episcopal de Cuba (Spanish for Episcopal Church of Cuba) consists of forty-six parishes, and about ten thousand members. ...
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Cuban ancestry The ancestry of white Cuban (65.05%) comes from one primary European source: Language(s) Spanish Religion(s) Predominantly Roman Catholic with Jewish Protestant Atheist and Agnostic minorities Related ethnic groups Spaniards Italians Portuguese French Andalusians Canarians Galician European White Hispanic White Argentine White Brazilian Jewish Cubans White American . ...
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During the 18th, 19th and early part of the 20th century, large waves of Canarian, Catalan, Andalusian and Galician immigrants emigrated to Cuba. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ...
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Origins of Cuban Spanish Of all the regional variations of the Spanish language, traditional Cuban Spanish is most similar to, and originates largely from the Spanish spoken in the Canary Islands. Cuba owes much of their speech patterns to the Canarian migration, which in the 19th and early 20th Century was heavy and continuous. There was also migrations of Galicians and Asturians as well, but they did not leave a mirror image on their accent on the Cuban accent like the Canarian people did. Much of the typical Cuban replacements for standard Spanish vocabulary stems from Canarian lexicon. For example, guagua (bus) differs from standard Spanish autobús the former originated in the Canaries and is an onomatopoeia stemming from the sound of a Klaxon horn (wah-wah!). An example of Canarian usage for a Spanish word is the verb fajarse [3] ("to fight"). In standard Spanish the verb would be pelearse, while fajar exists as a non-reflexive verb related to the hemming of a skirt. This article is about the international language known as Spanish. ...
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Demographic data from the Official 2002 Cuba Census | Population | 11,382,820 (July 2006 est.) | | Age structure | - 0-14 years: 19.1% (male 1,117,677/female 1,058,512)
- 15-64 years: 70.3% (male 4,001,161/female 3,999,303)
- 65 years and over: 10.6% (male 554,148/female 652,019) (2006 est.)
| | Median age | Total: 35.9 years - Male: 35.2 years
- Female: 36.5 years (2006 est.)
| | Population growth rate | -0.01% (2006 est.) | | Birth rate | 11.89 births/1,000 population (2006 est.) | | Death rate | 7.22 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.) | | Net migration rate | | Sex ratio | - At birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
- Under 15 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
- 15-64 years: 1 male(s)/female
- 65 years and over: 0.85 male(s)/female
- Total population: 0.99 male(s)/female (2006 est.)
| | Infant mortality rate | Total: 6.32 deaths/1,000 live births - Male: 6.99 deaths/1,000 live births
- Female: 5.41 deaths/1,000 live births (2006 est.)
| | Life expectancy at birth | Total population: 77.41 years - Male: 75.11 years
- Female: 79.85 years (2006 est.)
| | Total fertility rate | 1.66 children born/woman (2006 est.) | | HIV/AIDS | - Adult prevalence rate: less than 0.1% (2003 est.)
- People living with HIV/AIDS: 3,300 (2003 est.)
- Deaths: less than 200 (2003 est.)
| | Ethnic groups | - White: 65.5%
- Mulatto / Mestizo: 24.86%%
- Black: 10.08%
- Chinese: 1%
| | Religions | Nominally 85% Roman Catholic prior to Castro assuming power; Protestants, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jews, and Santeria are also represented. | | Languages | - Spanish
- English
| | Literacy | Total population: 99.8% (2002 census) - Male: 99.8%
- Female: 99.8%
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Cuban Art is a diverse cultural blend of African, European and North American visual design reflecting the diverse demographic of the island. ...
Cuban cuisine is the fusion of Spanish and Caribbean cuisines. ...
The culture of Cuba is a complex mixture of different, often contrasting, factors and influences. ...
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Human rights in Cuba are a subject of much debate. ...
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The Caribbean island of Cuba has been influential in the development of multiple musical styles in the 19th and 20th centuries. ...
Politics of Cuba take place within a framework of a socialist republic. ...
Palm tree at a Cuban beach resort Tourism in Cuba attracts over 2 million visitors a year, and is one of the main sources of revenue for the island. ...
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Mulatto (Spanish mulato, small mule, person of mixed race, mulatto, from mulo, mule, from Old Spanish, from Latin mūlus. ...
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Illicit migration is a continuing problem. Cubans require Cuban government documentation to leave, and this is commonly refused. Cubans attempt to depart the island and enter the US using homemade rafts, alien smugglers, direct flights, or falsified visas; Cubans also use non-maritime routes to enter the US including direct flights to Miami and overland via the southwest US/Mexican border, and islands adjacent to Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. A direct flight in the aviation industry traditionally refers to any flight between two destinations by an airline involving at least one intermediate stop, but with no change in flight numbers. ...
Cuban census 2002 The 2002 census is the most recent official census of Cuba (as of 2007).
Population by region | Population and Area by region | | Province | Area
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(%) | Density | | Cuba Total | 109,886.19 | 100 | 11,177,743 | 100 | 101.72 | | Pinar del Río | 10,904.03 | 9.92 | 726,574 | 6.50 | 66.63 | | La Habana | 5,791.59 | 5.22 | 711,066 | 6.36 | 124.06 | | Ciudad de la Habana | 721.01 | 0.66 | 2,201,610 | 19.70 | 3053.49 | | Matanzas | 11,802.72 | 10.74 | 670,427 | 6.00 | 56.80 | | Villa Clara | 8,412.41 | 7.06 | 817,395 | 7.31 | 97.17 | | Cienfuegos | 4,180.02 | 3.80 | 395,183 | 3.54 | 94.54 | | Sancti Spíritus | 6,736.51 | 6.13 | 460,328 | 4.12 | 68.33 | | Ciego de Ávila | 6,783.13 | 6.17 | 411,766 | 3.68 | 60.70 | | Camagüey | 15,615.02 | 14.21 | 784,178 | 7.02 | 50.22 | | Las Tunas | 6,587.75 | 6.00 | 525,485 | 4.70 | 79.77 | | Holguín | 9,292.83 | 8.46 | 1,021,321 | 9.14 | 109.90 | | Granma | 8,375.49 | 7.62 | 822,452 | 7.36 | 98,20 | | Santiago de Cuba | 6,156.44 | 5.60 | 1,036,281 | 9.27 | 168.32 | | Guantánamo | 6,167.97 | 5.61 | 507,118 | 4.54 | 82.22 | | Isla de la Juventud | 2,419.27 | 2.20 | 86,559 | 0.77 | 35.78 | Square kilometre (U.S. spelling: square kilometer), symbol km², is a decimal multiple of SI unit of surface area square metre, one of the SI derived units. ...
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Pinar del RÃo is one of the provinces of Cuba. ...
La Habana province, Cuba, is one of the provinces of Cuba. ...
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Villa Clara is one of the provinces of Cuba. ...
Statistics Capital: Cienfuegos Area: 4,178km² Inhabitants: 386,100 Population Density: 66. ...
Sancti SpÃritus is one of the provinces of Cuba. ...
Ciego de Ãvila is one of the provinces of Cuba, and was previously part of Camagüey Province. ...
Camagüey is the largest of the provinces of Cuba. ...
Las Tunas is one of the provinces of Cuba. ...
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Granma is one of the provinces of Cuba. ...
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The Isla de la Juventud (Spanish) or Isle of Youth (English) is the largest island of Cuba after Cuba proper. ...
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Language(s) Spanish Religion(s) Predominantly Roman Catholic with Jewish Protestant Atheist and Agnostic minorities Related ethnic groups Spaniards Italians Portuguese French Andalusians Canarians Galician European White Hispanic White Argentine White Brazilian Jewish Cubans White American . ...
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Languages Spanish language Religions Predominantly Roman Catholic Related ethnic groups Latin peoples, including other Spanish peoples The Canarians are an ethnic group or nation living in the archipelago of the Canary Islands (an autonomous community of Spain), near the coast of Western Africa. ...
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Cuban boys playing in Trinidad, Cuba The term Afro-Cuban refers to Cubans of African ancestry, and to historical or cultural elements in Cuba thought to emanate from this community. ...
Islenos (from the Spanish isleños, plural of islander) are descendants of Canary Islanders who came to America and settled in the lower Mississippi River Delta of Louisiana between 1778 and 1783. ...
Jewish Cubans, Cuban Jews, or Cubans of Jewish heritage, have lived on the island for centuries. ...
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References - ^ Census 2002 results
- ^ a b Catholic church in Cuba strives to reestablish the faith National Catholic Observer
- ^ fajar at Diccionario de la Real Academia Española.
- ^ CIA - The World Factbook - Cuba
- This article contains material from the CIA World Factbook (2006 edition) which, as a US government publication, is in the public domain.
- Statoids (July 2003). Municipios of Cuba. Retrieved on 2007-02-15.
- Matanzas Portal (2004). Population gowth by municipality and province. Retrieved on 2007-02-21.
- The Peninsular (May 2007). Population, birth rate falling in Cuba: Official
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