#population

The population of Cyprus will increase by 5.3 per cent over the next 30 years, according to the latest United Nations projections. The UN’s ‘World Population Prospects 2024’ report states that Cyprus ...

Cyprus’ population recorded an increase of 1.8 per cent in 2023 compared to 2022, according to demographic data released on Wednesday by the Statistical Service. The number of births increased in 2023, while the ...

Over one third of all deaths in Cyprus are associated to lifestyle factors such as smoking and lack of exercise, a public health seminar revealed on Friday.   The seminar, focusing ...

The population in the north could be as high as 825,000, the ‘mayor’ of Kyrenia Murat Senkul was reported as saying on Tuesday, basing his calculations on domestic waste production. Turkish ...

Cyprus holds the third highest share of foreign-born residents in EU, Eurostat data revealed on Wednesday. The highest proportion among EU residents born abroad (in another member state or in ...

Cyprus has the youngest population of any of the European Union’s member states, according to the latest figures published by the European Union’s statistical institute, Eurostat. The median ...

The north’s statistics institute released its population projection for 2022 on Monday, claiming there are just 399,727 people living in the north. This projection is a world away from estimates made ...

The north’s population is now over a million, the Turkish Cypriot Mukhtars’ Association chairman Akay Darbaz said on Wednesday. Speaking to Yeni Duzen, Darbaz said the information he had ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou has highlighted the mounting pressures Cyprus has faced in recent years due to increased migrant and refugee flows. Speaking at the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva, ...

Kyrenia Mayor Murat Senkul said on Monday the town’s population could be as high as 150,000 and called on those in power to “be serious” about population growth. Speaking to ...

Numbers could be up as much as 40 per cent since 2011 The population of the north may have increased by as much as 40 per cent since the last census in 2011, compared ...

Unal Ustel, the north’s ‘prime minister’, said on Tuesday evening that he knows the north’s population, but that he cannot say. “We know the population,” he said, speaking ...

While the population in the government-controlled areas increased by 9.9 per cent over the past ten years, the population in the north has gone up 33.7 per cent during the same period, ...

The full results of the 2021 census will be ready by March 2024, a Statistical service (Cystat) representative said on Tuesday, meaning they will meet a hard deadline set by the European ...

In 22 state primary schools in Nicosia, Cypriot pupils are in the minority, MPs heard on Tuesday as some said the shrinking population on the island has become critical. At three ...

The new Archbishop Georgios will follow the line of late Archbishop Chrysostomos on the Cyprus problem, he said in an interview on Saturday. “Our views are aligned, meaning we should ...

The population in the government-controlled areas of Cyprus has risen to 918,100 – up 9.2 per cent from 840,000 ten years ago according to the preliminary results of the latest census, the statistical service ...

Cyprus recorded the lowest median age among EU member states in 2021, after it was calculated at 38 years, according to a study carried out by Eurostat. Different from the average age, ...

The birth rates are falling fast in all the world’s more prosperous countries, but the generation now in their middle years have not yet grasped what that means for ...

Population in Cyprus will grow by 10 to 20 per cent until 2050, Eurostat estimates published on Friday show. The current population is 875,899 according to Eurostat and the World Bank. According to other ...

People from other EU states made up around 13 per cent of the island’s population on January 1, 2020, the highest percentage after Luxembourg, Eurostat figures show. An additional 5 per cent living ...