Demographics & population — Cyprus
Population size, age structure, migration, ethnicity, language, education, and health indicators.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Demographics & population at a glance
Population size, age structure, migration, ethnicity, language, education, and health indicators. Key figure for Cyprus: 1,320,525
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Population overview
- Population
1,320,525
- Population Growth Rate
0.95%
- Population Distribution
population concentrated in central Nicosia and in the major cities of the south: Paphos, Limassol, and Larnaca
- Urban Population
- urban population: 67%
- of total population rate of urbanization: 0.76% annual rate of change
- Population in Major Urban Areas
269,000 NICOSIA (capital)
- Population: Male/Female
- male: 675,196
- female: 645,329
Age & family
- Age Structure
- years: 15.6% (male 105,533/female 100,099) 15-64
- years: 70% (male 486,569/female 437,651) 65
- years and over: 14.4% (male 83,094/female 107,579)
- Median Age
- total: 39.5
- years male: 38.2
- years female: 41 years
- Birth Rate - births/1,000 population
10
- Death Rate - deaths/1,000 population
7
- Total Fertility Rate - children born/woman
1.49
- Gross reproduction rate
1
- Currently married women (ages 15-49)
54.5%
- Mean Age for Mother's First Birth (age 25-49)
30
- Mother's mean age at first birth
30
- Sex Ratio at Birth - male/female
- at birth: 1.05
- male(s)/female 0-14 years: 1.05
- male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1.11
- male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.77
- male(s)/female total population: 1.05 male(s)/female
Migration
- Net Migration Rate - migrant(s)/1,000 population
6.3
Ethnicity & language
- Ethnic Groups
Greek 98.8%, other 1% (includes Maronite, Armenian, Turkish-Cypriot), unspecified 0.2%
- Language Note
Greek (official) 80.9%, Turkish (official) 0.2%, English 4.1%, Romanian 2.9%, Russian 2.5%, Bulgarian 2.2%, Arabic 1.2%, Filipino 1.1%, other 4.3%, unspecified 0.6%; note - data represent only the Republic of Cyprus
- Nationality Noun
- Cypriot(s) adjective: Cypriot
Education
- Literacy - total population
99.4%
- Literacy - male
99.6%
- Literacy - female
99.2%
- Literacy Definition
age 15 and over can read and write
- Education Expenditures - percent of GDP
6.1%
- Total School Life Expectancy - (primary to tertiary)
- total: 16
- years male: 16
- years female: 16 years
Health & living conditions
- Life Expectancy at Birth
- total population: 80.2
- years male: 77.4
- years female: 83.1 years
- Infant Mortality Rate
- total: 8.1 deaths/1,000
- live births male: 9.7 deaths/1,000
- live births female: 6.4 deaths/1,000 live births
- Infant Mortality Rate - total deaths/1,000 live births
- total: 8.1 deaths/1,000
- live births male: 9.7 deaths/1,000
- live births female: 6.4 deaths/1,000 live births
- Maternal Mortality Rate - deaths/100,000 live births
68
- Physicians Density - physicians/1,000 population
3.14
- Hospital Bed Density - beds/1,000 population
3.4
- Health Expenditures - percent of GDP
8.1%
- Obesity - adult prevalence rate
21.8%
- Tobacco Use
- total: 35.1%
- male: 47%
- female: 23.2%
- Alcohol consumption per capita
- total: 9.59
- liters of pure alcohol beer: 2.85
- liters of pure alcohol wine: 2.72
- liters of pure alcohol spirits: 4.02
- liters of pure alcohol other alcohols: 0 liters of pure alcohol
- Drinking Water Source - percent of urban population improved
- urban: 99.7%
- of population rural: 99.8%
- of population total: 99.8%
- urban: 0.3%
- of population rural: 0.2%
- of population total: 0.2% of population
- Sanitation Facility Access - percent of urban population improved
- urban: 99.7%
- of population rural: 98.8%
- of population total: 99.4%
- urban: 0.3%
- of population rural: 1.2%
- of population total: 0.6% of population