What have researchers learned about Cyprus?

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This is CYSTAT's own headline demographic release; the population-by-age-and-sex pyramid chart on its page 1 is the same kind of chart this site draws from Eurostat's population-by-age-and-sex data.

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This full report PDF is used because the separate EUAA "Latest Asylum Trends" microsite could not be retrieved.

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The page states, verbatim: "about 170 000 third-country nationals (TCNs), representing 17.6% of the population, and another 90 000 EU citizens (9.3%)" as of 1 January 2024. This site's own Eurostat population-by-citizenship figures for the same date (retrieved 2026-08-28; Eurostat last updated the table on 2026-08-10) gives 133,665 non-EU foreign citizens and 98,320 EU foreign citizens — a ~36,000 gap on the larger figure. The EC's percentages are internally consistent with a ~966,000-population denominator, so this is not an arithmetic error on the EC's part; the most likely explanation is a different data vintage (CYSTAT revised its 2012–2022 figures against the final 2021 Census results), but that explanation has not itself been verified. The page's 170,000/90,000 figures should not be compared directly with the 133,665/98,320 shown on this site's charts without this caveat in mind.

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The UNHCR site may refuse automated requests even though the document opens in a normal browser. The fact sheet's own top-origins table states that 20,407 of the 43,307 'refugees' are Ukrainians holding temporary protection status, not refugees recognised under the 1951 Convention — the single most misreadable number in this list: refugee status and temporary protection are different measures and are never combined.

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Not an independent cross-check: its 2023 total-applicants figure (11,910) and first-instance-decision breakdown match this site's Eurostat figures to within a handful of units because the factsheet's statistical annex is itself drawn from named Eurostat tables — EMN, Eurostat and the Cyprus Asylum Service form one chain of origin here, not three sources agreeing independently. The same caution about shared origin applies to other items in this list. A newer EMN Cyprus factsheet covering 2024 is referenced on the EMN factsheets index page but no stable, independently verifiable URL for it was found.

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States a Cyprus-specific data gap: 2021–2023 subsequent-applicant data for Cyprus not available due to derogations — do not interpolate across it.

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Documents Cyprus-specific missing periods: 2008 first-instance/final decisions, and 2021–2023 unaccompanied-minor decisions.

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Live dashboard, not a static report — treat as indicative and current, not as an authoritative final figure the way an annual statistical release is.

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Contains one source typo worth flagging as the publisher's, not ours: it cites "the UNJCR Fact Sheet" (sic, for UNHCR). The publisher's own PRIO landing page for this briefing (prio.org/publications/14417) returns HTTP 404; the AUB mirror linked here is healthy, as is an FES mirror at library.fes.de.

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Licence checked on the report's own copyright page (2026-08-28): restrictive, like the FES item in this list. Only bibliographic facts and this site's own summary are stored, never the report text.

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Cyprus's own Asylum Service does not appear to publish its statistics directly as an open dataset (CYSTAT's own PXWeb Population/Migration folder has no asylum table at all); this ECRE-maintained page is the most primary asylum-statistics access point in this corpus that is not a Eurostat re-aggregation.

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