Cuba’s Population Census

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 28, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 17.

Cuba’s Population Census

A recently completed census of Cuba shows a large gain in the population. In 1907 the population was 2,048,980, an increase from 1899 of 30.3 per cent. Over half of the population live in the rural districts. The area of Cuba is 44,164 square miles, the density of population being in 1907, the official date of the census, 46.4 to the square mile. Two thirds of the population are white; the colored population consists of negroes and Chinese, of whom there were 11,837. Of the voting population, a little less than half are illiterate.