A stunning 10% of Cuba’s population — more than a million people — left the island between 2022 and 2023, the head of the country’s national statistics office said during a National Assembly session Friday, the largest migration wave in Cuban history.

The data confirmed reporting by the Miami Herald and Cuban independent media that sounded the alarm over the mass migration of Cubans amid a severe economic downturn and a government crackdown on dissent in recent years.

According to the official figures made public for the first time, Cuba’s population went from 11,181,595 on Dec. 31, 2021, to 10,055,968 on December 2023.

  • LEDZeppelin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    324·
    4 months ago

    In other news: Here comes the new wave of Florida republicans because they’re fleeing “communism”

    • Cerbero@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      4 months ago

      I can’t remember who (i think it was obama) but I thought the government got rid of that cuban wet foot dry foot program.

    • Cuttlefish1111@lemmy.worldEnglish
      94·
      4 months ago

      Coming to the USA to get citizenship and SSI money then going back to Cuba. All while screaming about handouts and the evils of communism. We’ll show em who’s boss