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Northern Cyprus
Northern Cyprus places highest on Agreement That Vaccines Are Safe (top 22% worldwide).
Share
Northern Cyprus in the Nations Inquiry Country Index
Northern Cyprus appears in 3 of the statistics tracked here, but is not placed in the Country Index: the index needs a standing on three quarters of its topics, and Northern Cyprus is measured on too few of them. Every published reading below is unaffected.
At a glance
The newest published figure for each, the year it describes and who published it, with a line showing how it has moved.
01The country
About Northern Cyprus
Key facts about Northern Cyprus
- Capital
- North Nicosia
- Official language
- Turkish
- Currency
- Turkish lira (TRY)
- ISO code
- XNCno ISO 3166-1 code exists and no convention is established; XNC is ours, minted in ISO's user-assigned X__ range
- Dialling code
- +90
As Wikidata records them. Official languages are the least consistent — some countries list only a national language, others every regional one. Sources and licences.
02Highs and lows
Where Northern Cyprus stands out
The two ends of its own record: every statistic on which Northern Cyprus sits within ten places of the best or worst in the world, plus its strongest and weakest readings overall. Each is turned into a percentile — its place among every country measured — which is what lets a hunger score and a press-freedom rank be compared at all.
Where Northern Cyprus does best2
No area reaches the world's top third. These are Northern Cyprus's strongest results relative to its own record.
Position · derived 32nd of 144 · 87.55 · 2018
world median 77.65 (better)
- PM2.5 Air Pollution Exposurebottom 40%
Position · derived 89th of 220 · 1 = worst · 16.9 · 2023
world median 14.45 (worse) · ▼ 11 pts since 2013
Where Northern Cyprus struggles most0
No statistic places Northern Cyprus near the worst end of a field, and none of its readings falls in the world's bottom third.
A band is a place among the countries each publisher scores, so Northern Cyprus can move because other countries moved. See the Country Index for the full method.
03In context
Northern Cyprus and its neighbours
A position reads best beside the countries around it. Every position below is a place in the world ranking, not within the region.
Shares a land border with
Across Western Asia
Every country in the sub-region, by its position in the world.
04The evidence
Every statistic we hold for Northern Cyprus
Grouped by topic. Each row gives the newest edition’s rank or position, the published value and the year the numbers describe — select a row for the world median, the best in the world and the trend.
Health & Wellbeing2
Agreement That Vaccines Are Safe32nd of 144position · derived87.55People aged 15+ who agree that vaccines are safe (% of those who had heard of vaccines)2018
top 22% of 144 countries measured
Wellcome Trust · People aged 15+ who agree that vaccines are safe (% of those who had heard of vaccines)
Northern Cyprus 87.55 · world median 77.65 (better)
Best in the world 97.91 (Bangladesh)
No earlier reading to compare
PM2.5 Air Pollution Exposure89th of 220position · derived · 1 = worst16.9Population-weighted PM2.5 concentration (µg/m³)2023
bottom 40% of 220 countries measured
Atmospheric Composition Analysis Group, Washington University in St. Louis · Population-weighted PM2.5 concentration (µg/m³)
Northern Cyprus 16.9 · world median 14.45 (worse)
Best in the world 2.5 (Cook Islands)
▼ -11 percentile points since 2013
Environment & Sustainability1
Tree Cover Lossbottom 23%10.6Tree cover loss (hectares, where canopy cover exceeded 30% in 2000)2025
bottom 23% of 210 countries measured
World Resources Institute — Global Forest Watch (data: University of Maryland) · Tree cover loss (hectares, where canopy cover exceeded 30% in 2000)
Northern Cyprus 10.6 · world median 3,775
Highest 6,225,187 (Canada)
▼ -10 percentile points since 2015
Not currently covered
The newest edition of these reports does not include Northern Cyprus. Usually the publisher does not cover it; sometimes it has dropped out of a ranking it used to appear in.
- Able to Raise Emergency Funds Within 30 Days
- Academic Freedom Index
- Access to Electricity
- Access to Electricity, Rural
- Account Ownership Among Women
- Account Ownership at a Financial Institution
- Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP)
- Adequacy of Social Protection and Labour Benefits
- Adjusted Net Savings
- Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19)
- Adult Literacy Rate
- Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60)
- Adults Who Experienced a Natural Disaster or Severe Weather
- Adults Who Have Been Too Anxious or Depressed to Carry On
- Agricultural Emissions
- Agricultural Emissions Intensity
- Agricultural Irrigated Land
- Agricultural Land
- Agriculture Orientation Index
- Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP)
- Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added per Worker
- AI User Share of the Working-Age Population
- Annual Forest Area Change Rate
- Antenatal Care Coverage, At Least Four Visits
- Anthropic AI Usage Index
- Arable Land per Person
- Armed Forces Personnel (% of population)
- Arms Imports (% of total imports)
- Asylum-Seekers by Country of Asylum
- Average Household Size
- Average Monthly Earnings of Employees
- Average Time to Clear Exports Through Customs
- Average Weekly Hours Worked
- Bachelor's or Higher Attainment
- Baseline Water Stress (Aqueduct)
- Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff
- Bribery Incidence
- Burned Area
- Business Ready: Operational Efficiency
- Business Ready: Public Services
- Business Ready: Regulatory Framework
- Caesarean Section Rate
- Carbon Intensity of Electricity
- Care-Seeking for Children with Symptoms of Pneumonia
- Catastrophic Out-of-Pocket Health Spending
- Central Bank Independence Index
- Cereal Import Dependency Ratio
- Cereal Yield
- Child and Family Benefit Coverage
- Child Marriage
- Children with Functional Difficulties
- Children's Climate Risk Index
- Civic Space Ratings
- Civilian Deaths in Organized Violence
- Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN)
- Climate Vulnerability (ND-GAIN)
- CO₂ Emissions per Capita
- Coal Share of Electricity Generation
- Coefficient of Human Inequality
- Coefficient of Variation of Habitual Caloric Consumption
- Commodity Export Dependence
- Completeness of Birth Registration
- Complexity Outlook Index
- Compliance with Labour Rights
- Composite Rate of Labour Underutilisation (LU4)
- Comprehensive Wealth per Capita
- Consumption-Based CO₂ Emissions
- Container Import Dwell Time
- Container Port Traffic
- Contraceptive Prevalence (Any Method)
- Control of Corruption
- Corruption Perceptions Index
- Cost of a Healthy Diet
- Cost of Sending Remittances
- Country Policy and Institutional Assessment
- Creative Goods Exports
- Creative Services Exports
- Crop Production Index
- Cropland Nitrogen Balance
- Crude Birth Rate
- Crude Death Rate
- Crude Oil Production
- Days Above 35°C
- Deaths in Non-State Conflict
- Deaths in Organized Violence
- Deaths in State-Based Armed Conflict
- Debt Service on External Debt
- Deliberative Democracy Index
- Demand for Family Planning Satisfied by Modern Methods
- Dietary Energy Supply
- Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index
- Digitally-Deliverable Services Exports
- Disability Benefit Coverage
- Drought Risk (Aqueduct)
- Early Initiation of Breastfeeding
- Ecological Footprint
- Economic Complexity Index
- Egalitarian Democracy Index
- Emigrants
- Employment in Agriculture
- Employment in Industry
- Employment in Services
- Employment Injury Protection Coverage
- Employment-to-Population Ratio
- Energy Intensity of GDP (PPP)
- Environmentally Related Tax Revenue
- Equal Protection Index
- Excess Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Exclusion by Socio-Economic Group
- Exclusive Breastfeeding Under Six Months
- Expected Years of Schooling
- Export Concentration Index
- Exports of Goods and Services (% of GDP)
- External Debt Stocks (% of GNI)
- Fatal Occupational Injuries
- FDI Regulatory Restrictiveness Index
- Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence
- Female Labour Force Participation Rate
- Female Share of Researchers
- Female Share of Senior and Middle Management
- Female Share of STEM Graduates
- Female-Headed Households
- Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare
- Firms Competing Against Informal Firms
- Firms Expecting to Make Informal Payments to Public Officials
- Firms Experiencing Internet Disruptions
- Firms Identifying Electricity as a Major Constraint
- Firms Offering Formal Training
- Firms Owning or Sharing a Generator
- Firms Using Banks to Finance Investment
- Firms Whose Assets Were Damaged by Extreme Weather
- Firms with a Bank Loan or Line of Credit
- Firms with a Female Top Manager
- Firms with an International Quality Certification
- Firms with Female Participation in Ownership
- Firms with Their Own Website
- Fish and Seafood Supply per Person
- Fisheries and Aquaculture Production
- Food Production Index
- Foreign Direct Investment Inflows
- Foreign Value Added Share of Gross Exports
- Forest Area
- Forest Area within Legally Established Protected Areas
- Foundational ID Ownership
- Freedom of Expression and Alternative Sources of Information Index
- Freedom of Foreign Movement
- Freedom of Peaceful Assembly
- Freedom of Religion
- Frontier Technology Readiness Index
- Fruit Supply per Person
- Gas Share of Electricity Generation
- GDP Growth
- GDP per Capita (PPP)
- GDP per Person Employed
- Gender Development Index
- Gender Inequality Index
- Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment
- Gender Social Norms Index
- General Government Consumption
- Gini Index
- Gini Index of Disposable Income (SWIID)
- Gini Index of Monthly Earnings
- GitHub Developers
- GitHub Git Pushes
- GitHub Repositories
- Global Gender Parity Index
- Global Indicators of Regulatory Governance Score
- Global Innovation Index
- Global Militarisation Index
- Global Multidimensional Poverty Index
- Global Report on Food Crises
- GNI per Capita (PPP)
- Government AI Readiness Index
- Government Censorship of the Media
- Government Cyber Security Capacity
- Government Dissemination of False Information (Domestic)
- Government Effectiveness
- Government Funding per Primary Student
- Government Internet Shutdowns
- Government Social Media Censorship
- Government Spending on Education
- GovTech Maturity Index
- Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP)
- Gross Savings (% of GDP)
- Harmonized Test Scores
- Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison)
- Historical Index of Ethnic Fractionalization
- Household Consumption
- HPV Vaccination Coverage, Girls
- Human Capital Index
- Human Capital Wealth per Capita
- Human Development Index
- Hydro Share of Electricity Generation
- ICT Goods Exports
- ICT Services Exports
- Immunisation Coverage, DTP3
- Immunisation Coverage, Measles First Dose (MCV1)
- Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP)
- Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary
- Income Growth of the Poorest 40%
- Income Share Held by Lowest 20%
- Income Share Held by Richest 10%
- Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP)
- Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
- Infant Mortality Rate
- Inflation, GDP Deflator
- INFORM Risk Index
- INFORM Severity Index
- Informal Employment Rate
- Informal Output (DGE Model Estimate)
- Insecticide-Treated Net Use
- Institutional Deliveries
- Interest Payments on External Debt
- Intergenerational Persistence in Education
- Internally Displaced People of Concern to UNHCR
- International Migrants
- International Migrants as a Share of Population
- Internet Use Among Adults
- Judicial Constraints on the Executive Index
- Labour Force Participation Rate
- Labour Income Share
- Labour Inspectors per 10,000 Employed Persons
- Labour Productivity per Hour Worked
- Land Under Cereal Production
- Learning Poverty
- Learning-Adjusted Years of School
- Legal Guarantees of Women's Equal Rights to Land
- Length of Paid Maternity Leave
- Length of Paid Paternity Leave
- Liberal Democracy Index
- Life Expectancy at Age 65
- Life Expectancy at Birth
- Liner Shipping Connectivity Index
- Livestock Density
- Livestock Production Index
- Logistics Performance Index
- Low Birthweight Prevalence
- Low Pay Rate
- Low-Carbon Share of Electricity Generation
- Lower Secondary Completion Rate
- Made or Received a Digital Payment
- Malaria Incidence (P. falciparum)
- Malaria Incidence (P. vivax)
- Malaria Mortality (P. falciparum)
- Management Practices Index
- Mangrove Area
- Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP)
- Mass Mobilization
- Maternal Mortality Ratio
- Mean Age at Childbearing
- Mean Age at First Marriage, Women
- Mean Years of Schooling
- Meat Supply per Person
- Median Age of the Population
- Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person
- Merchant Fleet by Country of Ownership
- Meritocratic Appointment in the State Administration
- Methane Emissions
- Military Dimension Index
- Minimum Dietary Diversity, Children Aged 6–23 Months
- Minimum Proficiency in Mathematics, End of Lower Secondary
- Minimum Proficiency in Mathematics, End of Primary
- Minimum Proficiency in Reading, End of Lower Secondary
- Minimum Proficiency in Reading, End of Primary
- Mobile Phone Ownership
- Modern Contraceptive Prevalence
- Mortality Rate, Ages 5–14
- Multidimensional Poverty Measure
- Municipal Solid Waste Generation
- Natural Gas Production
- ND-GAIN Country Index
- Neonatal Mortality Rate
- Neopatrimonial Rule Index
- Net Electricity Imports (share of generation)
- Net Migration Rate
- Net Official Development Assistance Received
- New Business Density
- Nobel Prize Laureates by Country of Birth
- Nuclear Share of Electricity Generation
- Official Development Assistance Given (% of GNI)
- Old-Age Pension Coverage
- One-Person Households
- Open Data Inventory
- Operating Coal Power Capacity
- Operating Wind Power Capacity
- Oral Rehydration Salts for Children with Diarrhoea
- Organic Agricultural Area
- Out-of-School Rate, Lower Secondary Age
- Out-of-School Rate, Primary
- Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary
- Overweight Prevalence in Children Under Five
- Palma Ratio
- Participation in Organised Learning One Year Before Primary
- Participatory Democracy Index
- Per Capita Food Supply Variability
- Perceptions of Electoral Integrity Index
- Pesticide Use per Hectare
- Photovoltaic Power Potential (PVOUT)
- Physical Violence Index
- PISA Mathematics Performance
- PISA Reading Performance
- PISA Science Performance
- Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI
- Political Corruption Index
- Political Polarization
- Political Stability and Absence of Violence
- Political Violence by Non-State Actors
- Population Aged 65 and Over
- Population Density
- Population Growth Rate
- Population Living Below 5 m Elevation
- Population Living in Cities (Degree of Urbanisation)
- Population Under Age 15
- Postnatal Care for Newborns Within Two Days
- Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day
- Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates
- Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines
- Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day
- Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day
- Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day
- Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day
- Pre-Primary Net Enrolment Rate
- Prevalence of Moderate or Severe Food Insecurity
- Prevalence of Severe Food Insecurity
- Prevalence of Undernourishment
- Price Level of Household Consumption
- Primary Completion Rate
- Primary Energy Consumption per Capita
- Primary Energy Production
- Primary Schools with Electricity
- Primary Schools with Internet for Teaching
- Productive Capacities Index
- Progress Toward Productive and Sustainable Agriculture (SDG 2.4.1 Proxy)
- Prosperity Gap
- Public Sector Employment
- Public Sector Wage Bill
- Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary
- Qualified Teachers in Primary Education
- Refugee Population by Country of Asylum
- Refugees by Country of Origin
- Regulatory Quality
- Renewable Internal Freshwater Resources per Capita
- Renewable Share of Electricity Generation
- Research and Development Spending
- Researchers per Million Inhabitants
- Rigorous and Impartial Public Administration
- RISE Clean Cooking Policy Score
- RISE Electricity Access Policy Score
- RISE Energy Efficiency Policy Score
- RISE Renewable Energy Policy Score
- Riverine Flood Risk (Aqueduct)
- Rule of Law
- Saved at a Financial Institution or with Mobile Money
- Scholarly Articles
- School Life Expectancy
- Secondary School Enrolment
- Self-Employment Rate
- Senior Management Time Spent on Government Regulation
- Services Exports
- Severe Child Food Poverty, Children Aged 6–23 Months
- Sex Ratio at Birth
- Sex Ratio of the Total Population
- Share of Dietary Energy Supply from Cereals, Roots and Tubers
- Share of Firms' Payments Made Electronically
- Share of Graduates from ICT Programmes
- Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet
- Share of Temporary Employees
- Short-Term Share of External Debt
- Smartphone Ownership
- Social Institutions and Gender Index
- Social Protection Coverage
- Societal Poverty Rate
- Solar Electricity Installed Capacity
- Solar Share of Electricity Generation
- State Authority over Territory
- State Capacity Index
- State Fiscal Source of Revenue
- Stateless Persons by Country of Residence
- Statistical Performance Indicators
- Statutory Corporate Income Tax Rate
- Statutory Minimum Wage
- Stillbirth Rate
- Stunting Prevalence in Children Under Five
- Tariff Rate, Applied, Weighted Mean, All Products
- Tax Revenue (% of GDP)
- Temperature Change on Land
- Terms of Trade Index
- Tertiary Enrolment Ratio
- Total Dependency Ratio
- Total Factor Productivity Level
- Total Fertility Rate
- Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP)
- Trade (% of GDP)
- Trade Union Density
- Tropical Moist Forest Deforestation
- Trust in Scientists · last seen 2018
- Under-Five Mortality Rate
- Unemployment Benefit Coverage
- Unemployment Rate
- Upper Secondary Attainment
- Upper Secondary Completion Rate
- Urban Population Share (National Definitions)
- V-Dem Electoral Democracy Index
- Vegetable Supply per Person
- Violent Discipline of Children
- Voice and Accountability
- Vulnerable Employment
- Wasting Prevalence in Children Under Five
- Water Stress
- Water Withdrawal by Sector
- Water-Use Efficiency
- Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion
- Wind and Solar Share of Electricity Generation
- Women Who Think a Husband Is Justified in Hitting or Beating His Wife
- Women, Business and the Law
- Women's Empowerment Index
- Women's Political Empowerment Index
- Women's Share of Agricultural Landowners
- Working Poverty Rate
- World Energy Trilemma Index
- World Risk Index
- World Risk Poll Resilience Index
- Youth Literacy Rate
- Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training
- Youth Unemployment Rate
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06Method
Sources and how to read them
How to read this page
- The scores and ranks belong to their publishers. Nothing is adjusted, rescaled or re-ranked; each is reproduced from the edition named beside it. Where a row says position · derived, the publisher ranks nobody on that measure and the position is ours, made by ordering the published score.
- Each statistic shows its newest edition, which is not always the edition the Country Index uses: the index pins every source to one data year so its average compares like with like.
How a standing is built from percentiles, why Northern Cyprus can move because other countries moved, and why publishers measure between 120 and 215 countries each are set out in full in how a standing is made and what a standing cannot tell you.
Sources
- Statistics: 3 publishers, each named beside its numbers, with every edition and licence on the datasets pages.
- Capital, languages, currency, codes: Wikidata, public domain (CC0).
- Map and land borders: Natural Earth, public domain. Borders are de facto — where administration actually changes — not claimed.
Photographs
The photograph of Northern Cyprus on this page comes from Wikimedia Commons and is shown in greyscale. The photographer and the licence are named beside each one.
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Northern Cyprus: country statistics, rankings and trends. https://nationsinquiry.com/countries/northern-cyprus