Cuba

Population Statistics

11,031,433

Total Population

1,654,715

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

06 September 2007

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Constitution of the Republic of Cuba (1967, last amended 2002)

Updated: June 2015

Article 131 states:

All citizens with the legal capacity for doing so are entitled to intervene in the direction of the State, either directly or through their representatives elected to membership in the organs of the People’s Power; and for that purpose, to participate, in the manner provided in the law, in periodic elections and popular referendums, to be held with a free, equal, and secret ballot. Each voter is entitled to only one vote.

 

Article 132 states:

All Cubans 16 years of age and over, men and women alike, have the right to vote…

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba (1967, last amended 2002)