Cyprus
Republic of Cyprus
- Capital
- Nicosia
- Region
- Southern Europe
- Population, 2025
- 1.4 million
- Currency
- EUR
- Area
- 9,251 km²
Across Cyprus's 18 priced cities, one person needs about $1,767 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $1,929.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
66out of 100
- Purchasing power25%64
- Safety20%66
- Health care15%57
- Climate10%92
- Air quality10%87
- Connectivity10%64
- Cost10%35
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #32
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
62.3
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
21.1
New York = 100
Purchasing power
120.8
New York = 100
One person
$1,767
A month, rent included
Net salary
$1,929
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$831
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$41,783
2025
Growth
+3.8%
2025
Unemployment
4.9%
2025
Inflation
0.1%
2025
Life expectancy
81.8 years
2024
Internet users
90%
2024
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 35%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 15%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 19%
- SourcePwC
- Capital gains, individuals
- 20%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 8.8%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 8.8%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 66.4
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 33.6
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 0.8
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #54 worldwide
- 148
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #45 worldwide
- 110
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +16%
Cities in Cyprus
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Nicosia | 65 | 62.3 | $831 | $1,929 | 124.8 | 200.5K | High confidence, 56 contributors |
| 2Limassol | 59 | 70.8 | $1,700 | $2,688 | 111.2 | 154K | High confidence, 89 contributors |
| 3Aradippou | 58 | 57.1 | $637 | $1,875 | 143.4 | 22.9K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 4Athienou | 58 | 57.3 | — | $2,123 | 149.2 | 5.2K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 5Larnaca | 57 | 58.2 | $939 | $1,979 | 124.8 | 72K | High confidence, 27 contributors |
| 6Paralimni | 56 | 60.0 | $689 | $1,679 | 120.8 | 11.8K | Medium confidence, 12 contributors |
| 7Ayia Napa | 55 | 60.8 | — | $1,703 | 115.9 | — | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 8Egkomi | 54 | 60.8 | $746 | $1,607 | 110.7 | 20.5K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 9Paphos | 52 | 62.3 | $1,126 | $1,905 | 105.6 | 36K | High confidence, 34 contributors |
| 10Protaras | 52 | 62.5 | — | — | — | 20.2K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 11Lapithos | 52 | 62.5 | — | — | — | 5.2K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 12Ypsonas | 52 | 62.7 | — | — | — | 7.3K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 13Kolossi | 52 | 62.7 | — | — | — | 6.5K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 14Kyrenia (Girne) | 52 | 61.3 | $710 | $1,186 | 83.1 | 26.7K | Medium confidence, 11 contributors |
| 15Dali | 51 | 57.8 | — | $1,135 | 79.4 | 12.4K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 16Famagusta | 51 | 55.3 | $674 | $933 | 70.9 | 42.5K | Medium confidence, 10 contributors |
| 17Tseri | 50 | 62.5 | $638 | $928 | 67.3 | 5.5K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 18Iskele | 45 | 67.2 | $1,122 | $951 | 51.0 | — | Low confidence, 4 contributors |