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Population in Cuba compared to the United Kingdom: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Cuba was 10,979,783 in 2024 vs 69,226,000 people in the United Kingdom in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Cuba's population is 10,937,204 people compared to 69,945,462 in the United Kingdom.

Population statistics:

  • The United Kingdom's population is 6.4 times bigger than Cuba's.
  • Cuba is ranked the 89th most populous country in the world, while the United Kingdom is the 22nd.
  • The countries together account for 0.98% of the world: 0.13% for Cuba vs 0.85% for the United Kingdom.
  • For the last 10 years, Cuba has had an average growth rate of -0.26% per year vs +0.7% in the United Kingdom.
  • Since 2005, the population of Cuba has decreased from 11.3M people to 10.9M (2.89% decline), while the United Kingdom has grown from 60.4M to 69.9M (15.8% growth).
  • The United Kingdom is projected to reach its peak in 2072 at 76.2M 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 United Kingdom: live population counter

Cuba United Kingdom
Current population
10937204
69945462
Population rank 89/197 22/197
Percent of world population 0.13% 0.85%
One net population change
13.1 minutes
43 seconds
One birth every
5.48 minutes
45.9 seconds
One death every
4.7 minutes
48.4 seconds
One migration net change every
23.5 minutes
1.26 minutes
Annual migration change -22,356 +417,114
Daily growth/decline -110 +2,011
Annual growth/decline -40,148 +734,000
Annual growth/decline rate -0.36% +1.07%
Population growth rate rank 180/197 99/197

Cuba and the United Kingdom: population history and growth rate by year chart

Cuba
Population

Growth rate
United Kingdom
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Cuba United Kingdom Cuba United Kingdom
1960 7,238,081 52,400,000 - -
1961 7,387,117 52,800,000 2.06% 0.76%
1962 7,541,098 53,250,000 2.08% 0.85%
1963 7,701,660 53,650,000 2.13% 0.75%
1964 7,866,020 54,000,000 2.13% 0.65%
1965 8,030,797 54,348,050 2.09% 0.64%
1966 8,193,450 54,648,500 2.03% 0.55%
1967 8,352,625 54,943,600 1.94% 0.54%
1968 8,509,522 55,211,700 1.88% 0.49%
1969 8,666,640 55,441,750 1.85% 0.42%
1970 8,824,382 55,663,250 1.82% 0.4%
1971 8,979,085 55,896,223 1.75% 0.42%
1972 9,123,891 56,086,065 1.61% 0.34%
1973 9,255,328 56,194,527 1.44% 0.19%
1974 9,374,183 56,229,974 1.28% 0.06%
1975 9,479,726 56,225,800 1.13% -0.007%
1976 9,571,242 56,211,968 0.97% -0.02%
1977 9,648,440 56,193,492 0.81% -0.03%
1978 9,711,980 56,196,504 0.66% 0.005%
1979 9,763,355 56,246,951 0.53% 0.09%
1980 9,804,796 56,314,216 0.42% 0.12%
1981 9,849,320 56,333,829 0.45% 0.03%
1982 9,912,681 56,313,641 0.64% -0.04%
1983 9,991,026 56,332,848 0.79% 0.03%
1984 10,073,299 56,422,072 0.82% 0.16%
1985 10,157,228 56,550,268 0.83% 0.23%
1986 10,244,247 56,681,396 0.86% 0.23%
1987 10,335,342 56,802,050 0.89% 0.21%
1988 10,432,585 56,928,327 0.94% 0.22%
1989 10,533,243 57,076,711 0.96% 0.26%
1990 10,631,799 57,247,586 0.94% 0.3%
1991 10,717,640 57,424,897 0.81% 0.31%
1992 10,785,801 57,580,402 0.64% 0.27%
1993 10,841,031 57,718,614 0.51% 0.24%
1994 10,886,021 57,865,745 0.41% 0.25%
1995 10,925,362 58,019,030 0.36% 0.26%
1996 10,962,010 58,166,950 0.34% 0.25%
1997 10,997,934 58,316,954 0.33% 0.26%
1998 11,034,712 58,487,141 0.33% 0.29%
1999 11,072,230 58,682,466 0.34% 0.33%
2000 11,109,109 58,892,514 0.33% 0.36%
2001 11,144,132 59,119,673 0.32% 0.39%
2002 11,177,418 59,370,479 0.3% 0.42%
2003 11,209,383 59,647,577 0.29% 0.47%
2004 11,238,756 59,987,905 0.26% 0.57%
2005 11,262,554 60,401,206 0.21% 0.69%
2006 11,278,550 60,846,820 0.14% 0.74%
2007 11,287,272 61,322,463 0.08% 0.78%
2008 11,291,762 61,806,995 0.04% 0.79%
2009 11,294,719 62,276,270 0.03% 0.76%
2010 11,297,409 62,766,365 0.02% 0.79%
2011 11,301,571 63,258,810 0.04% 0.78%
2012 11,303,175 63,711,000 0.01% 0.71%
2013 11,298,167 64,139,000 -0.04% 0.67%
2014 11,285,775 64,620,000 -0.11% 0.75%
2015 11,275,065 65,088,000 -0.09% 0.72%
2016 11,265,612 65,607,000 -0.08% 0.8%
2017 11,247,829 65,966,000 -0.16% 0.55%
2018 11,227,118 66,289,000 -0.18% 0.49%
2019 11,202,846 66,631,000 -0.22% 0.52%
2020 11,176,354 66,744,000 -0.24% 0.17%
2021 11,122,168 66,984,000 -0.48% 0.36%
2022 11,059,820 67,604,000 -0.56% 0.93%
2023 11,019,931 68,492,000 -0.36% 1.31%
2024 10,979,783 69,226,000 -0.36% 1.07%
2025 10,937,204 69,639,673 -0.39% 0.6%
2026 10,892,659 70,020,350 -0.41% 0.55%
2027 10,846,709 70,382,853 -0.42% 0.52%
2028 10,799,586 70,732,699 -0.43% 0.5%
2029 10,750,892 71,061,482 -0.45% 0.46%
2030 10,700,820 71,377,535 -0.47% 0.44%
2031 10,649,673 71,678,351 -0.48% 0.42%
2032 10,597,336 71,959,934 -0.49% 0.39%
2033 10,543,539 72,234,509 -0.51% 0.38%
2034 10,488,270 72,497,650 -0.52% 0.36%
2035 10,431,762 72,749,096 -0.54% 0.35%
2036 10,373,926 72,990,847 -0.55% 0.33%
2037 10,314,339 73,218,850 -0.57% 0.31%
2038 10,253,201 73,441,349 -0.59% 0.3%
2039 10,190,465 73,658,392 -0.61% 0.3%
2040 10,125,837 73,868,334 -0.63% 0.29%
2041 10,059,299 74,074,316 -0.66% 0.28%
2042 9,990,897 74,275,779 -0.68% 0.27%
2043 9,920,670 74,475,035 -0.7% 0.27%
2044 9,848,751 74,667,284 -0.72% 0.26%
2045 9,775,205 74,848,605 -0.75% 0.24%
2046 9,699,830 75,020,949 -0.77% 0.23%
2047 9,622,707 75,184,478 -0.8% 0.22%
2048 9,544,142 75,337,543 -0.82% 0.2%
2049 9,463,925 75,476,141 -0.84% 0.18%
2050 9,381,995 75,600,588 -0.87% 0.16%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Cuba increased by 12,511 people (a 0.11% growth), while the United Kingdom gained 4,686,794 people (a 7.76% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Cuba lost -337,861 (a 3% decline), while the United Kingdom's population increased by 4,857,462 (a 7.46% growth).

Cuba was ranked 72nd most populous country in 2005 and is 89th in 2025. The United Kingdom was ranked 21st in 2005 and ranked 22nd 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 the United Kingdom will increase by 8.09% to 75,600,588 people and rank change from 22nd to 26th.

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