Unhealthy non-EU citizens in Cyprus

For 2023, just over 10 per cent of non-EU citizens aged 65 and over living in Cyprus perceived themselves to be in bad or very bad state of health, according to a Eurostat survey released on Monday.

By comparison, across the EU 28 per cent of non-EU citizens in the same age bracket saw themselves to be in bad or very bad state of health.

For the age group 45-64, 11 per cent of non-EU citizens also perceived themselves to be in bad or very bad health, while 9.7 per cent of citizens of other EU countries and 8.3 per cent of nationals reported the same situation. For people aged 16-44 years old, the different citizenship groups all reported very low numbers of bad or very bad state of self-perceived health.

Among non-EU citizens, the share of women who had a bad or very bad self-perception of health was 8.5 per cent compared with 7.3 per cent for men. For nationals, the number for women was 9.8 per cent compared with 8 per cent for men, while for citizens of another EU country, men had a higher self-perception of bad or very bad health (7.8 per cent) than women (7.4 per cent).

The EU countries with the highest shares of non-EU citizens in a bad or very bad state of self-perceived health were Latvia, Estonia and France. The lowest shares were recorded in Italy followed by Malta and Bulgaria.