In 2024, civil partnerships accounted for 8.2% of all legally recognized unions, according to data published for the first time by the Statistical Service.
As the Statistical Service notes, the compilation of these statistics is part of an effort to improve the quality and enhance the comprehensiveness of statistical indicators, and aims to provide a more complete picture of the demographic characteristics of the population.
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The first civil partnerships were registered in 2016, totaling 93 for that year. Since then, there has been a gradual increase. In 2024, 917 civil partnerships were entered into, a number that remains at similar levels to the previous year (929).
The largest increase in the total number of legally recognized unions was recorded in 2020 during the Covid pandemic, when they reached 16.8%.
At the same time, a total of 74 civil partnership agreements were dissolved in 2024.
In total, 5,851 civil partnership agreements were entered into over an eight-year period, while a total of 284 terminations were recorded.
According to the Statistical Service, of the agreements entered into in 2024, 96.2% (882) involved residents of Cyprus, while the remaining percentage involved individuals residing abroad.
Of the 882 civil partnerships entered into between residents of Cyprus in 2024, 839 involved opposite-sex couples, while 43 involved same-sex couples.
The average age at the time of entering into the agreement was 33.5 years for men and 30.8 years for women in heterosexual couples. For same-sex couples, the average age was 40.6 years overall.
Source: CNA
