966,365 persons

Methodological caveats

De jure population stock at 1 January, as the reporting country supplies it to Eurostat: the figure is that country's own, published through Eurostat, so it is never independent corroboration of its national population series. It is a different concept from a census enumerated population and from an end-of-year series, with a different reference moment, so it is never charted on the same axis as either. Citizenship is published in broad groups: citizens of the reporting country, foreign and stateless citizens split into EU27 and non-EU27 foreign citizens, and a set of historical EU, EFTA and candidate-country aggregates, with individual foreign countries for some countries and years. The EFTA and candidate-country groups are subsets of non-EU27 foreign citizens, not additional parts, and are never summed into a total. The published parts match the total closely but not always exactly (EU27 2024: a residual of 83,822 people, an artefact of summing 27 national tables), so no reconciliation is asserted unless it is stated for a specific country. For Cyprus this is republished by Eurostat from a CYSTAT submission: it is CYSTAT's own figure passed through, never independent corroboration of any other Cyprus population series, and a different concept from both the 2021 census enumerated population and the CYSTAT end-of-year de jure series. Cyprus citizenship is published here only at aggregate level: Cyprus reports no individual foreign countries in this table for any year 1998-2025. Citizens plus foreign and stateless equal the total, and EU27 foreign plus non-EU27 foreign equal foreign and stateless, both exactly for Cyprus (2024: 734,380 + 231,985 = 966,365; 98,320 + 133,665 = 231,985). Foreign-citizen share in 2024: Cyprus 24.0%, EU-27 9.6%, Malta 28.1%, Luxembourg 47.2%, Ireland 15.3%, Greece 7.1%. Eurostat flags a break in this country's time series for this indicator in 1 January 2010: values on either side of a break were not measured the same way, so the change across it is not a like-for-like movement.