Cyprus population

On the UN's projection, Cyprus will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2040: 984,772 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 936,410.

aged 15–64   children under 15   aged 65 and over

How to read this: the orange squares are 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023, and the rows below are how many children (teal) and how many people aged 65 or older (violet) lived alongside them.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 40 years: 1998–2037.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100   the same, projected   50 or more

How to read this: the strip runs 1950 to 2100. Coloured years are the ones with under 50 dependants for every 100 people aged 15–64; grey years are the rest, and a hatched year has not happened yet.

How every country compares

In 2020–2025 Cyprus gains 8,778 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 1,900 a year more arriving than leaving.

more arrive than leave   more leave than arrive

How to read this: left to right is age, from babies to 100. Blue squares above the line are ages at which more people arrive than leave; orange squares below it, ages at which more leave than arrive. These are the UN's projection for 2020–2025. There is no record of migration by age before 2020.

Its best and worst years between 1950 and 2023: a gain of 12,814 (2002), and a loss of 8,220 (1974).

In 2024, 202,062 people living in Cyprus had been born in another country, 15 of every 100 people there, against 6 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

Of every 100 babies born in Cyprus in 2023, 2 had a mother under 20, 66 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 32 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 5 under 20 and 21 aged 35 or older.

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: each block is 100 babies born in that year, one square each, coloured by how old the mother was. The numbers under a block are the three groups, youngest mothers first.

Babies born, 2023

14,524

Average age when women have a baby

31.7 years

30.1 in 1950

Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19

7

29 in 1950

At the end of 2025, Cyprus was hosting 71,369 people who had crossed a border into it, about 52 of every 1,000 people living there.

1. hosted from abroad71,369
2. Cyprus nationals abroad25

stayed inside their own country   crossed a border

How to read this: count the squares — 2,000 people each, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Cyprus living in another country, wherever they are. An outlined square means fewer people than one square stands for.

In 2025, 2,959 people asked for asylum in Cyprus for the first time; 8 people from Cyprus asked for asylum in another country. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

Of every 100 people in Cyprus in 2025, 50 lived in a city, 26 in a town or suburb and 24 in the countryside.

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person, coloured by where they live, as the key says. The same rule is used in every country.

How the world's people live

Of every 100 adults in Cyprus in 2020, 3 never went to school and 77 finished upper secondary or went further.

Its people aged 15 to 64 are projected to be most numerous in 2035; the ones who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2040.

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every hundredth adult aged 25 or over, from least schooling on the left to most on the right. Counted by the Wittgenstein Centre for 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

Cyprus had 4 cities in 2025, home to 684,077 people. The largest, Nicosia, holds 24 of every 100 people in Cyprus.

1. Nicosia333,008
2. Limassol207,813
3. Larnaca78,486
4. Pafos64,770

How to read this: one bar for each of the 4 largest cities, 2025, all on the same scale. "City" here means the built-up area the UN measures, not the boundary the city draws itself.

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