How does foreign citizenship compare across Cyprus and the EU?
In 1 January 2024, compare Cyprus with the EU-27 average and four other countries. Every row uses the same Eurostat table, definition and year, so the shares can be read side by side.
What share of residents are foreign or stateless? (1 January 2024)
Citizenship is a legal status, not a measure of ethnicity, ancestry or birthplace. “Foreign and stateless” follows Eurostat’s citizenship categories. A resident who holds Cypriot citizenship is not counted as a foreign citizen solely because they were born abroad.
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| Geography | Total population | Foreign & stateless | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cyprus | 966,365 | 231,985 | 24.0%* |
| European Union (27, from 2020) | 449,306,184 | 43,006,349 | 9.6%* |
| Malta | 563,443 | 158,368 | 28.1%* |
| Luxembourg | 672,050 | 317,531 | 47.2%* |
| Ireland | 5,351,681 | 818,556 | 15.3%* |
| Greece | 10,375,764 | 741,599 | 7.1%* |
How the share is calculated: Share = foreign-and-stateless persons (citizen code FOR_STLS) divided by the total usual-resident population (citizen code TOTAL), both from Eurostat migr_pop1ctz, same geography, same year, age band TOTAL. Numerator and denominator always come from the same table and the same year -- never mixed across sources.
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* Calculated by Humanity Observatory from published figures.