Santiago de Cuba — UN urban centre
Santiago de Cuba: 429,537 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,303 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2377; territory: Cuba (CUB). UN source workbook.
Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.
Source centroid: 20.0262, -75.8244. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 309,912 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 344,506 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 376,346 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 408,627 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 409,716 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 407,169 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 410,397 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 415,275 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 436,147 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 435,738 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 429,537 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 423,445 | Projection |
| 2035 | 417,038 | Projection |
| 2040 | 409,157 | Projection |
| 2045 | 399,958 | Projection |
| 2050 | 373,199 | Projection |
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