Standard of Living

Cyprus provides a fairly high, European level standard of living. The annual per capita income is about US 27,000. The overall cost of living averages about 1/3 to 2/3 of most parts of Europe, Japan or the USA.

A recent international poll showed Cyprus towns to have one of the lowest costs of living within a developed nation.

Languages

The local population is Greek speaking.

Cyprus was once a British colony resulting in over 80% of the population speaking English. It is also useful to note that all street signs, direction signs, shop signs etc. are written in English.

Knowledge of German, French, Russian and other European languages is increasing with the Island tourist trade.