OVERVIEW
What the available evidence shows about the development and use of AI in Cyprus, compared with the EU average and a group of similar countries. Every figure links to its source and is labelled by how it was produced.
Quality tier A, measuredUpdated 31 Dec 2025EUROSTAT ISOC_EB_AI
The gap between Cyprus and the EU average was 5.1 percentage points in 2021 and 10.7 percentage points in 2025. Both years come from the same survey.
AD-01.0: full series, peer comparison and method
AI IN EVERYDAY CYPRUS
The sectors range from public services and health to tourism, shipping and cybersecurity. Each has a practical question and the published evidence, where any exists.
All sectors →The same figure drawn as 100 squares, one for each percentage point.
Each square is one percentage point, and a partly filled square shows the exact value. The squares illustrate a share; they do not stand for real firms.
Covers enterprises with 10 or more persons employed in the sectors included in the Eurostat survey. Smaller businesses and personal use of AI are outside its scope.
The ring counts the published metrics by quality tier, that is, by how each figure was produced.
Published by the authority responsible for it, as an official statistic or an entry in a primary register.
It describes the metrics in this index only, not how much of the country’s AI activity has been measured. Quality tierΒαθμίδα ποιότηταςA label showing how a figure was produced. Tier A (measured) is published by the responsible authority, tier B (modelled) is derived using a documented method, and tier C (estimate) is an approximation. How recently a figure was checked is shown separately, by its review date.Open the glossary
The metrics are grouped into seven pillars, from electricity and computing capacity to skills, business use and policy.
Select a pillar to read what it covers.
This pillar shows how far businesses in Cyprus have started to use AI in their work. The figures come from an EU survey of enterprises, published by Eurostat: the share using any AI technology, the share using generative AI and the share using more than one AI technology. The survey covers enterprises with ten or more people employed, so the smallest businesses and households are left out.
What is measured
Scores run from 0 to 100 on published reference bands. They are not percentages and they are not forecasts. Index scoreΣυνολική βαθμολογίαA score from 0 to 100 that summarises selected indicators. Each figure is first scored against its published reference band, and the metric scores are then combined using stated weights. The result depends on which indicators are included and how they are weighted.Open the glossary
Index score 38/100. This is the weighted average of the seven pillar scores, each calculated on the reference bands published with its metrics. It is based on 14 metrics, 12 of them tier A (measured). What the index covers and what it leaves out
Number of AI Factories of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking located in the country. An AI Factory combines a supercomputer optimised for AI with a service centre, so hosting one means the machine itself is in the country. AI Factory Antennas, which give remote access to a machine elsewhere, are counted separately in CO-02.0.
Data-centre-class GPUs installed at the national open-access high-performance computing (HPC) facility and available for allocation through its national access calls. GPUs reserved for a single funded project, and systems announced for decommissioning, are excluded.
Price paid by industrial consumers using 500 to 1 999 MWh a year (consumption band IC), including all taxes and levies. A mid-sized datacentre or a university computing facility falls within this range.
AI models of one billion parameters or more, trained from scratch or as a full fine-tune, whose publisher releases the complete weights under its own name. The publisher must have its registered office in Cyprus, or the training must have been carried out on compute located in Cyprus. Adapters, delta weights, API-only releases and third-party mirrors do not count. A fine-tune of another publisher’s base model counts only if the base model’s licence allows the full merged weights to be published.
AI use · Cyprus
AI use in Cyprus differs by business size. Select a survey year to compare the share of small, medium and large businesses using AI.
27.4percentage points
Gap between large and small businesses · 2025
The survey does not cover them, so many local businesses and startups are not included in these figures.
The survey covers businesses with 10+ people employed. Finance, public services and microbusinesses are excluded. The size groups are not sectors.
Measures of digital foundations and sector scale help explain where AI could be useful in Cyprus. The definition and limitations of each measure are shown on its card.
80.34/100
Observation period:
EU average · 2025: 84.64/100
Benchmark of online availability of assessed services, including domestic and cross-border access.
This is a score out of 100. It does not show what share of services use AI or how satisfied citizens are.
78.75/100
Observation period:
EU average · 2025: 86.51/100
Composite maturity score for people’s technical access to electronic health records.
The score describes the access that is technically available. How many patients use the service, how widely clinicians use AI and the quality of treatment are outside its scope.
1.65%
Observation period:
Cyprus enterprises with 10+ people employed using industrial or service robots in the 2022 Eurostat ICT survey.
The figure dates from 2022, so it does not describe robot use today. The survey excludes finance and public services, and robots do not necessarily use AI.
56.0%
Observation period:
Systems for detecting suspicious activity on business IT.
Covers businesses with 10+ people employed in the 2024 ICT survey. Businesses report only whether the practice is in place. How well it works, whether it involves AI and how far it protects against attacks are not measured.
Glossary
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