Young people and children constitute 53% of occupied area’s population; Unemployment rate was 9.9% in 2012
Turkish Cypriot daily Kibris newspaper (17.08.13) reported that the great majority of the 286.257 persons who continuously reside in the occupied area of the Republic of Cyprus are young people and children, who, according to the recently announced results of the “population census” held in 2011, constitute 53% of the population permanently living in the occupied area of the island.
The distribution of the population according to their age group was the following in the census held in 2011 in comparison with the census held in 2006:
Αge Group 2011 2006 Increase
0-14 52.710 47.595 10,7%
15-19 20.807 21.356 -2,6%
20-24 33.309 34.008 -2%
25-29 29.292 28.786 1,75%
30-34 27.823 21.921 26,9%
35-39 22.853 18.483 23,6%
40-44 19.118 17.770 7,5%
45-49 17.707 15.105 17,2%
50-54 15.271 13.118 16,4%
55-59 13.154 11.073 18,7%
60-64 10.952 8.066 35,7%
65-69 8.261 6.685 23,5%
70-74 6.091 4.957 22,8%
75-79 4.372 3.518 24,2%
80-84 2.710 2.151 25,9%
85 and above 1.827 1.357 34,6%
Meanwhile, Turkish Cypriot daily Yeni Duzen newspaper (17.08.13) reported that according to data published by the Turkish so-called embassy to Nicosia in the regime’s “2012 Economic Situation Report”, the number of the unemployed persons increased from 9.522 in 2006 to 10.784 in 2012. According to the same report, 4.093 Turkish Cypriots were working in the government-controlled area of the island in 2006 and this number was decreased to 1.200 in 2012.
The number of the persons who are in the age of being able to work increased to 221.193 in 2012. According to the report, 50.8% of this population is not included in the workforce of the occupied area of the island.
Unemployment rate was 11.9% in 2010, 9.7% in 2011 and 9.9% in 2012.
The number of persons working in the “public” and private sectors was 93.000 in 2010, 97.103 in 2011, and 99.117 in 2012
CNA