section_path: Population
section_name: Population
paragraph_text: Population
  
  The total population of the five U.S. states facing the gulf is 67 million people. Of these, a total of 15.8 million people live in the Gulf Coastal Region, in counties directly bordering the gulf. The six Mexican states that face the gulf have a total population of 19.1 million people. Three provinces of northwest Cuba, including Havana, border on the gulf, with a combined population of 3,211,000.
  
  By 1975, 400 offshore drilling rigs in the gulf hosted a temporary population of more than 10,000 workers on any given day, who were rotated on a weekly staggered schedule. Increasing automation later led to a decline in the offshore worker population.
  
  The total population of the five U.S. states facing the gulf is 67 million people. Of these, a total of 15.8 million people live in the Gulf Coastal Region, in counties directly bordering the gulf. The six Mexican states that face the gulf have a total population of 19.1 million people. Three provinces of northwest Cuba, including Havana, border on the gulf, with a combined population of 3,211,000.
  
  By 1975, 400 offshore drilling rigs in the gulf hosted a temporary population of more than 10,000 workers on any given day, who were rotated on a weekly staggered schedule. Increasing automation later led to a decline in the offshore worker population.