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Population in Cuba compared to India: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Cuba was 10,979,783 in 2024 vs 1,450,935,791 people in India in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Cuba's population is 10,937,204 people compared to 1,474,115,403 in India.

Population statistics:

  • India's population is 134.8 times bigger than Cuba's.
  • Cuba is ranked the 89th most populous country in the world, while India is the 1st.
  • The countries together account for 18% of the world: 0.13% for Cuba vs 17.8% for India.
  • For the last 10 years, Cuba has had an average growth rate of -0.26% per year vs +1.03% in India.
  • Since 2005, the population of Cuba has decreased from 11.3M people to 10.9M (2.89% decline), while India has grown from 1.15B to 1.47B (27.7% growth).
  • India is projected to reach its peak in 2061 at 1.7B people, while Cuba's population already peaked in 2012 at 11.3M people and is projected to decrease to 5.58M people by 2100.

Cuba vs India: live population counter

Cuba India
Current population
10937204
1474115403
Population rank 89/197 1/197
Percent of world population 0.13% 17.8%
One net population change
13.1 minutes
2.45 seconds
One birth every
5.48 minutes
1.36 seconds
One death every
4.7 minutes
3.32 seconds
One migration net change every
23.5 minutes
50 seconds
Annual migration change -22,356 -630,830
Daily growth/decline -110 +35,250
Annual growth/decline -40,148 +12,866,195
Annual growth/decline rate -0.36% +0.89%
Population growth rate rank 180/197 109/197

Cuba and India: population history and growth rate by year chart

Cuba
Population

Growth rate
India
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Cuba India Cuba India
1960 7,238,081 435,990,338 - -
1961 7,387,117 446,564,729 2.06% 2.43%
1962 7,541,098 457,283,090 2.08% 2.4%
1963 7,701,660 468,138,575 2.13% 2.37%
1964 7,866,020 479,229,598 2.13% 2.37%
1965 8,030,797 490,140,146 2.09% 2.28%
1966 8,193,450 500,740,247 2.03% 2.16%
1967 8,352,625 511,606,372 1.94% 2.17%
1968 8,509,522 522,716,889 1.88% 2.17%
1969 8,666,640 533,880,544 1.85% 2.14%
1970 8,824,382 545,864,268 1.82% 2.24%
1971 8,979,085 558,096,387 1.75% 2.24%
1972 9,123,891 570,482,142 1.61% 2.22%
1973 9,255,328 583,465,598 1.44% 2.28%
1974 9,374,183 597,041,391 1.28% 2.33%
1975 9,479,726 611,309,535 1.13% 2.39%
1976 9,571,242 625,861,883 0.97% 2.38%
1977 9,648,440 640,801,103 0.81% 2.39%
1978 9,711,980 655,728,229 0.66% 2.33%
1979 9,763,355 671,155,747 0.53% 2.35%
1980 9,804,796 687,354,025 0.42% 2.41%
1981 9,849,320 703,696,250 0.45% 2.38%
1982 9,912,681 720,313,473 0.64% 2.36%
1983 9,991,026 737,372,681 0.79% 2.37%
1984 10,073,299 754,875,449 0.82% 2.37%
1985 10,157,228 772,647,793 0.83% 2.35%
1986 10,244,247 790,689,978 0.86% 2.34%
1987 10,335,342 808,931,270 0.89% 2.31%
1988 10,432,585 827,342,990 0.94% 2.28%
1989 10,533,243 846,039,529 0.96% 2.26%
1990 10,631,799 864,972,221 0.94% 2.24%
1991 10,717,640 883,927,600 0.81% 2.19%
1992 10,785,801 902,957,070 0.64% 2.15%
1993 10,841,031 922,118,387 0.51% 2.12%
1994 10,886,021 941,163,767 0.41% 2.07%
1995 10,925,362 960,301,044 0.36% 2.03%
1996 10,962,010 979,678,458 0.34% 2.02%
1997 10,997,934 999,133,762 0.33% 1.99%
1998 11,034,712 1,018,665,080 0.33% 1.95%
1999 11,072,230 1,038,225,823 0.34% 1.92%
2000 11,109,109 1,057,922,733 0.33% 1.9%
2001 11,144,132 1,077,898,575 0.32% 1.89%
2002 11,177,418 1,097,600,380 0.3% 1.83%
2003 11,209,383 1,116,803,006 0.29% 1.75%
2004 11,238,756 1,135,991,513 0.26% 1.72%
2005 11,262,554 1,154,676,322 0.21% 1.64%
2006 11,278,550 1,172,878,890 0.14% 1.58%
2007 11,287,272 1,190,676,021 0.08% 1.52%
2008 11,291,762 1,207,930,964 0.04% 1.45%
2009 11,294,719 1,225,524,753 0.03% 1.46%
2010 11,297,409 1,243,481,564 0.02% 1.47%
2011 11,301,571 1,261,224,954 0.04% 1.43%
2012 11,303,175 1,278,674,502 0.01% 1.38%
2013 11,298,167 1,295,829,511 -0.04% 1.34%
2014 11,285,775 1,312,277,191 -0.11% 1.27%
2015 11,275,065 1,328,024,498 -0.09% 1.2%
2016 11,265,612 1,343,944,296 -0.08% 1.2%
2017 11,247,829 1,359,657,400 -0.16% 1.17%
2018 11,227,118 1,374,659,064 -0.18% 1.1%
2019 11,202,846 1,389,030,312 -0.22% 1.05%
2020 11,176,354 1,402,617,695 -0.24% 0.98%
2021 11,122,168 1,414,203,896 -0.48% 0.83%
2022 11,059,820 1,425,423,212 -0.56% 0.79%
2023 11,019,931 1,438,069,596 -0.36% 0.89%
2024 10,979,783 1,450,935,791 -0.36% 0.89%
2025 10,937,204 1,463,865,531 -0.39% 0.89%
2026 10,892,659 1,476,625,576 -0.41% 0.87%
2027 10,846,709 1,489,164,679 -0.42% 0.85%
2028 10,799,586 1,501,432,748 -0.43% 0.82%
2029 10,750,892 1,513,423,737 -0.45% 0.8%
2030 10,700,820 1,525,138,852 -0.47% 0.77%
2031 10,649,673 1,536,540,604 -0.48% 0.75%
2032 10,597,336 1,547,607,126 -0.49% 0.72%
2033 10,543,539 1,558,324,087 -0.51% 0.69%
2034 10,488,270 1,568,688,356 -0.52% 0.67%
2035 10,431,762 1,578,694,799 -0.54% 0.64%
2036 10,373,926 1,588,325,366 -0.55% 0.61%
2037 10,314,339 1,597,537,009 -0.57% 0.58%
2038 10,253,201 1,606,300,646 -0.59% 0.55%
2039 10,190,465 1,614,639,243 -0.61% 0.52%
2040 10,125,837 1,622,580,052 -0.63% 0.49%
2041 10,059,299 1,630,119,374 -0.66% 0.46%
2042 9,990,897 1,637,235,363 -0.68% 0.44%
2043 9,920,670 1,643,915,269 -0.7% 0.41%
2044 9,848,751 1,650,186,610 -0.72% 0.38%
2045 9,775,205 1,656,067,585 -0.75% 0.36%
2046 9,699,830 1,661,548,400 -0.77% 0.33%
2047 9,622,707 1,666,628,151 -0.8% 0.31%
2048 9,544,142 1,671,309,727 -0.82% 0.28%
2049 9,463,925 1,675,619,893 -0.84% 0.26%
2050 9,381,995 1,679,589,268 -0.87% 0.24%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Cuba increased by 12,511 people (a 0.11% growth), while India gained 173,348,176 people (a 15% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Cuba lost -337,861 (a 3% decline), while India's population increased by 146,090,905 (a 11% growth).

Cuba was ranked 72nd most populous country in 2005 and is 89th in 2025. India was ranked 2nd in 2005 and ranked 1st now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Cuba's population will shrink by 14.2% to 9,381,995 people with a rank change from 89th to 104th. The population of India will increase by 13.9% to 1,679,589,268 people and will still be ranked 1st.

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