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Emigration from Cyprus

How many people leave Cyprus, and where do they go? In 2024, 26,883 people left Cyprus for a year or more, and net migration (arrivals minus departures) was 13,588.

Immigration: trends, origins and migration data →

Long-term emigrants

26,883

2024

Year-on-year change

-0.4%*

2024

5-year change

44.5%*

2024

An emigrant is someone crossing the border to live elsewhere for a year or more — a count of people leaving that year, not a running total of everyone who has ever left.

What has changed

Long-term emigrants decreased from 26,979 in 2023 to 26,883 in 2024 (-0.4%).
Long-term emigrants increased from 18,598 in 2019 to 26,883 in 2024 (+44.5%).

Emigration over time, 1981-2024

Long-term emigration and net migration on one axis, same unit. Net migration can run negative — more people leaving than arriving in a given year.

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Long-term emigrants and net migration by year, Cyprus, 1981-2024
YearEmigrantsNet migration
1981no figure published196
1982no figure published-31
198379518
198496155
198591238
1986179175
1987182272
1988126257
1989no figure published4,526
1990no figure published8,707
1991no figure published10,559
1992no figure published9,999
1993no figure published8,000
1994no figure published7,000
1995no figure published6,000
1996no figure published5,300
1997no figure published4,800
1998no figure published4,200
1999no figure published4,200
2000no figure published3,960
2001no figure published4,650
20021,4745,466
20031,6966,285
20041,9137,090
20052,1928,128
20062,77810,299
20074,10615,222
20084,47416,586
20094,79717,784
20104,29315,913
20114,89518,142
201219,986-3,848
201320,679-7,013
201416,020-3,017
201515,733-369
201616,4452,145
201716,9315,527
201817,5628,178
201918,5988,955
202014,2008,650
202113,24412,229
202221,11816,440
202326,97913,782
202426,88313,588

Source: Statistical Service of Cyprus — Migration Movements, Annual. Trace a value →

Who emigrates, by citizenship

Citizenship group of the emigrant — Cypriot, EU or non-EU only, not individual nationalities. This is a different partition of the same collapsed CYSTAT axis as “where emigrants go next” below — the two sum independently to the same annual total and are never added together.

2024 shown above. Every published year is in the table below.

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Long-term emigrants by citizenship group, Cyprus, 2013-2024
YearCitizenship - CypriotCitizenship - EUCitizenship - Non EU
20132,05810,0498,572
20142,3415,5988,081
20152,0955,4368,202
20162,6636,0717,711
20172,0246,1158,792
20182,8126,6568,094
20192,2637,5198,816
20202,1216,5235,556
20211,0563,7678,421
20221,1076,23213,779
20231,0528,38317,544
20241,6606,93118,292

Emigrants shown as published, EU/non-EU only.

Source: Statistical Service of Cyprus — Emigrants by Citizenship and Country of Next Residence, Annual.

Where emigrants go next

Country of next residence — EU or non-EU only, and a different published categorisation scheme from citizenship above: the two are never merged, even though both happen to be alternative partitions of the same collapsed axis.

2024 shown above. Every published year is in the table below.

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Long-term emigrants by country of next residence, Cyprus, 2013-2024
YearCountry of next residence - EUCountry of next residence - Non EU
201311,9948,685
20148,9717,049
20158,9676,766
20169,5386,907
20179,9896,942
201810,2747,288
201911,9596,639
20208,5915,609
20216,8866,358
20228,44712,671
20239,44317,536
20248,24418,639

Emigrants shown as published, EU/non-EU only.

Source: Statistical Service of Cyprus — Emigrants by Citizenship and Country of Next Residence, Annual.

Modification notice and disclaimer

The counts on this page are published by Statistical Service of Cyprus and are reproduced unchanged. Humanity Observatory has additionally derived the following from them:

  • Year-on-year and five-year percentage changes, computed from two published counts for the same series.
  • The CSV export below, which reproduces published figures verbatim in one downloadable file.

Figures on this page derived by Humanity Observatory from CYSTAT data are modifications of the published statistics; the modification is described in the methodology note attached to each figure. CYSTAT does not accept liability for any damage or other consequences arising from the direct or indirect use of the disseminated information, and does not guarantee that published figures will remain unchanged.

Source: Statistical Service of Cyprus (CYSTAT). Reuse terms.

* Calculated by Humanity Observatory from published figures.

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