Cuba as of 1 January 2018. Canary Islanders Catalans Andalusians Galicians Asturians The Slave trade brought Africans to Cuba during its early history: Between 1842 and 1873, 221,000 African slaves entered Cuba. Africans People of the Americas: Haitians Jamaicans Other European people that have contributed include: Germans French Portuguese Italians Russians People from Asia: Chinese Koreans Filipino Lebanese, Syrian, Egyptian, Palestinian (Arab Cubans) Between 1842 and 1873, 124,800 Chinese arrived. Genetics An autosomal study from 2014 has found out the genetic average ancestry in Cuba to be 72% European, 20% African and 8% Native American with different proportions depending on the self-reported ancestry (White, Mulatto or Mestizo, and Black): A 1995 study done on the population of Pinar del Rio, found that 50% of the Mt-DNA lineages (female lineages) could be traced back to Europeans, 46% to Africans and 4% to Native Americans. This figure is consistent with both the historical background of the region, and the current demographics of it. According to another study in 2008, the Native American contribution to present-day Cubans accounted for 33% of the maternal lineages, whereas Africa and Eurasia contributed 45% and 22% of the lineages, respectively. Haplogroup A2 is the main Native American haplogroup in Cuba (21.9% of the total sample), accounting for 67% of the Native American mtDNA gene pool. Regarding Y-chromosome haplogroups (male lineages), 78.8% of the sequences found in Cubans are of West Eurasian origin, 19.7% of African origin and 1.5% of East Asian origin. Among the West Eurasian fraction, the vast majority of individuals belong to West European haplogroup R1b. The African lineages found in Cubans have a Western (haplogroups E1, E2, E1b1a) and Northern (E1b1b-M81) African origin. The "Berber" haplogroup E1b1b1b (E-M81), is found at a frequency of 6.1%. According to Fregel et al. (2009), the fact that autochthonous male North African E-M81 and female U6 lineages from the Canaries have been detected in Cuba and Iberoamerica, demonstrates that Canary Islanders with indigenous ancestors actively participated in the American colonization. Y-DNA mtDNA Other demographics statistics Demographic statistics according to the World Population Review in 2022. One birth every 5 minutes One death every 5 minutes One net migrant every 45 minutes Net loss of one person every 48 minutes Demographic statistics according to the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated. Population 11,008,112 (2022 est.) 11,209,628 (2018) Ethnic groups White 64.1%, Mulatto or mixed 26.6%, Black 9.3% (2012 est.)