By the middle of the 18th century Havana had more than seventy thousand inhabitants, and was the third-largest city in the Americas, ranking behind Lima and Mexico City but ahead of Boston and New York.
Sredinom 18. stoljeća, Havana je imala više od 70 000 stanovnika, te je bila treći najveći grad u Amerikama, iza Lime i Méxica, ali ispred Bostona i New Yorka.