Births decrease by almost 20 percent in Cuba in 2024.

In 2024, Cuba recorded 34,648 births up to July 11, a total of 8,157 fewer than in the same period of 2023, according to official reports.

The decrease translates to a drop of almost 20 percent, according to the officialist site Cubadebate and the figures presented by Dr. Catherine Chibás Pérez, national head of the Maternal and Child Program (PAMI) of the Ministry of Public Health.

In the report presented by Chibás to the Health and Sports Commission of the National Assembly of the People's Power, the country once again reports a decline in this regard, something that has become common.

The effects of the economic crisis and the massive exodus, mainly of young adults, are leaving an increasingly critical situation in the demographic dynamics of Cuba, a country that already in 2023 recorded the lowest birth rate in six decades.

Only 90,300 births were recorded during the past year, 15,000 less than in 2020, when according to UN data, Cuba reported 105,616.

Regarding the issue, the deputy chief of the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI) of Cuba called in February 2023 not to dramatize the aging of the population on the Island.

And it is that the Cuban population continued to show a tendency towards aging and natural decline. For this reason, Juan Carlos Alfonso Fraga, a director of the organization, acknowledged in an interview with AP that the decrease in the number of births "is not a minor issue," but also expressed that it is not something to "beat ourselves up" over.

The news outlet also reported that the infant mortality rate so far in 2024 stands at 7.4 per thousand live births, a figure higher compared to the 7.1 from the previous year.

However, last year on this same date, the regime reported a rate of 7.9 (42,805 births), meaning higher than indicated during this week, which represents an improvement.