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There was a drop between the 2002 and 2012 censuses which was the first drop in Cuba's population since Cuba's war of independence. This drop was due to low fertility and emigration, as during this time (fiscal years 2003 to 2012), 42,028 Cubans received legal permanent residence in the United States. [ 5 ]
The table's data is from The World Factbook unless noted otherwise. It shows the male to female sex ratio by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States. If there is a discrepancy between The World Factbook and a country's census data, the latter may be used instead.
An older Cuban woman in colourful traditional costume poses playfully with her cigar outside the Plaza de Armas. Women in Cuba have the same constitutional rights as men in the economic, political, cultural and social fields, as well as in the family. Cuba is regarded as a regional front-runner in women's rights.
For 60 years, Cuba's communist government has monopolized virtually every aspect of life on the island, including dozens of state-controlled organizations that serve as official advocates for ...
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Raúl Castro. Transparency International: 2017 Corruption Perceptions Index, ranked 62 out of 176 countries. [16] Inter-Parliamentary Union: Women in national parliaments, ranked 2 out of 192 countries. [17] Reporters Without Borders: 2016 Press Freedom Index, ranked 171 out of 180 countries. [18]
Cartogram of the world's population in 2018; each square represents 500,000 people. This is a list of countries and dependencies by population.It includes sovereign states, inhabited dependent territories and, in some cases, constituent countries of sovereign states, with inclusion within the list being primarily based on the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
“A single violated woman is not only a blow to the feminist tradition of the Revolution, it is an unacceptable act in our socialist society,” President Miguel Díaz-Canel said in April.
The Huffington Post and YouGov asked 124 women why they choose to be childfree. Their motivations ranged from preferring their current lifestyles (64 percent) to prioritizing their careers (9 percent) — a.k.a. fairly universal things that have motivated men not to have children for centuries.