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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Cuba was 10,979,783 in 2024 vs 35,557,673 people in Malaysia in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Cuba's population is 10,937,204 people compared to 36,304,998 in Malaysia.

Population statistics:

  • Malaysia's population is 3.32 times bigger than Cuba's.
  • Cuba is ranked the 89th most populous country in the world, while Malaysia is the 45th.
  • The countries together account for 0.57% of the world: 0.13% for Cuba vs 0.44% for Malaysia.
  • For the last 10 years, Cuba has had an average growth rate of -0.26% per year vs +1.5% in Malaysia.
  • Since 2005, the population of Cuba has decreased from 11.3M people to 10.9M (2.89% decline), while Malaysia has grown from 25.8M to 36.3M (40.5% growth).
  • Malaysia is projected to reach its peak in 2072 at 46.4M 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 Malaysia: live population counter

Cuba Malaysia
Current population
10937204
36304998
Population rank 89/197 45/197
Percent of world population 0.13% 0.44%
One net population change
13.1 minutes
1.22 minutes
One birth every
5.48 minutes
1.21 minutes
One death every
4.7 minutes
2.9 minutes
One migration net change every
23.5 minutes
3.01 minutes
Annual migration change -22,356 +174,770
Daily growth/decline -110 +1,182
Annual growth/decline -40,148 +431,375
Annual growth/decline rate -0.36% +1.23%
Population growth rate rank 180/197 91/197

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

Cuba
Population

Growth rate
Malaysia
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Cuba Malaysia Cuba Malaysia
1960 7,238,081 7,956,197 - -
1961 7,387,117 8,164,443 2.06% 2.62%
1962 7,541,098 8,380,172 2.08% 2.64%
1963 7,701,660 8,602,160 2.13% 2.65%
1964 7,866,020 8,828,406 2.13% 2.63%
1965 8,030,797 9,056,408 2.09% 2.58%
1966 8,193,450 9,284,688 2.03% 2.52%
1967 8,352,625 9,507,099 1.94% 2.4%
1968 8,509,522 9,725,281 1.88% 2.29%
1969 8,666,640 9,947,597 1.85% 2.29%
1970 8,824,382 10,178,802 1.82% 2.32%
1971 8,979,085 10,423,453 1.75% 2.4%
1972 9,123,891 10,676,835 1.61% 2.43%
1973 9,255,328 10,935,621 1.44% 2.42%
1974 9,374,183 11,200,906 1.28% 2.43%
1975 9,479,726 11,471,914 1.13% 2.42%
1976 9,571,242 11,750,097 0.97% 2.42%
1977 9,648,440 12,035,713 0.81% 2.43%
1978 9,711,980 12,328,157 0.66% 2.43%
1979 9,763,355 12,627,862 0.53% 2.43%
1980 9,804,796 12,983,363 0.42% 2.82%
1981 9,849,320 13,399,203 0.45% 3.2%
1982 9,912,681 13,832,798 0.64% 3.24%
1983 9,991,026 14,285,907 0.79% 3.28%
1984 10,073,299 14,759,009 0.82% 3.31%
1985 10,157,228 15,252,258 0.83% 3.34%
1986 10,244,247 15,760,419 0.86% 3.33%
1987 10,335,342 16,276,737 0.89% 3.28%
1988 10,432,585 16,796,605 0.94% 3.19%
1989 10,533,243 17,314,997 0.96% 3.09%
1990 10,631,799 17,833,171 0.94% 2.99%
1991 10,717,640 18,342,464 0.81% 2.86%
1992 10,785,801 18,834,572 0.64% 2.68%
1993 10,841,031 19,322,664 0.51% 2.59%
1994 10,886,021 19,820,446 0.41% 2.58%
1995 10,925,362 20,330,599 0.36% 2.57%
1996 10,962,010 20,850,087 0.34% 2.56%
1997 10,997,934 21,375,218 0.33% 2.52%
1998 11,034,712 21,906,713 0.33% 2.49%
1999 11,072,230 22,435,531 0.34% 2.41%
2000 11,109,109 22,967,816 0.33% 2.37%
2001 11,144,132 23,526,538 0.32% 2.43%
2002 11,177,418 24,102,477 0.3% 2.45%
2003 11,209,383 24,679,602 0.29% 2.39%
2004 11,238,756 25,256,772 0.26% 2.34%
2005 11,262,554 25,836,071 0.21% 2.29%
2006 11,278,550 26,417,909 0.14% 2.25%
2007 11,287,272 26,998,389 0.08% 2.2%
2008 11,291,762 27,570,059 0.04% 2.12%
2009 11,294,719 28,124,778 0.03% 2.01%
2010 11,297,409 28,655,776 0.02% 1.89%
2011 11,301,571 29,162,039 0.04% 1.77%
2012 11,303,175 29,662,831 0.01% 1.72%
2013 11,298,167 30,174,265 -0.04% 1.72%
2014 11,285,775 30,696,137 -0.11% 1.73%
2015 11,275,065 31,232,798 -0.09% 1.75%
2016 11,265,612 31,789,685 -0.08% 1.78%
2017 11,247,829 32,355,644 -0.16% 1.78%
2018 11,227,118 32,910,967 -0.18% 1.72%
2019 11,202,846 33,440,596 -0.22% 1.61%
2020 11,176,354 33,889,558 -0.24% 1.34%
2021 11,122,168 34,282,399 -0.48% 1.16%
2022 11,059,820 34,695,493 -0.56% 1.2%
2023 11,019,931 35,126,298 -0.36% 1.24%
2024 10,979,783 35,557,673 -0.36% 1.23%
2025 10,937,204 35,977,838 -0.39% 1.18%
2026 10,892,659 36,385,119 -0.41% 1.13%
2027 10,846,709 36,785,089 -0.42% 1.1%
2028 10,799,586 37,182,773 -0.43% 1.08%
2029 10,750,892 37,574,292 -0.45% 1.05%
2030 10,700,820 37,961,722 -0.47% 1.03%
2031 10,649,673 38,347,786 -0.48% 1.02%
2032 10,597,336 38,728,383 -0.49% 0.99%
2033 10,543,539 39,097,871 -0.51% 0.95%
2034 10,488,270 39,457,849 -0.52% 0.92%
2035 10,431,762 39,814,834 -0.54% 0.9%
2036 10,373,926 40,166,904 -0.55% 0.88%
2037 10,314,339 40,512,289 -0.57% 0.86%
2038 10,253,201 40,853,318 -0.59% 0.84%
2039 10,190,465 41,185,892 -0.61% 0.81%
2040 10,125,837 41,509,646 -0.63% 0.79%
2041 10,059,299 41,828,594 -0.66% 0.77%
2042 9,990,897 42,144,474 -0.68% 0.76%
2043 9,920,670 42,455,952 -0.7% 0.74%
2044 9,848,751 42,754,140 -0.72% 0.7%
2045 9,775,205 43,038,205 -0.75% 0.66%
2046 9,699,830 43,313,754 -0.77% 0.64%
2047 9,622,707 43,580,459 -0.8% 0.62%
2048 9,544,142 43,831,577 -0.82% 0.58%
2049 9,463,925 44,065,538 -0.84% 0.53%
2050 9,381,995 44,289,765 -0.87% 0.51%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Cuba increased by 12,511 people (a 0.11% growth), while Malaysia gained 5,396,727 people (a 20.9% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Cuba lost -337,861 (a 3% decline), while Malaysia's population increased by 5,072,200 (a 16.2% growth).

Cuba was ranked 72nd most populous country in 2005 and is 89th in 2025. Malaysia was ranked 44th in 2005 and ranked 45th 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 Malaysia will increase by 22% to 44,289,765 people and rank change from 45th to 49th.

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