AI IN EVERYDAY CYPRUS
For each sector in Cyprus: where AI could be useful, what safeguards it would need, what the published evidence shows and what is not yet measured.
10 sectors
Sector
Public services reach almost every resident, so faster and clearer service would be widely felt. The public body concerned stays accountable for the result.
Can residents complete a public-service application without another visit or phone call?
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Clinical AI may improve care, but it has to meet high standards of evidence and patient safety before it is relied on.
Can AI help clinicians provide better care, and who checks its output?
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A regulated, internationally oriented sector in which automation is useful only if customers and supervisors can trust it.
Can customers get faster service, and an explanation when a decision affects their money?
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Tourism is one of the largest industries in Cyprus, so even modest gains in service and planning would be felt across the economy.
Can a hotel serve guests better while reducing repetitive work?
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Legal work involves large volumes of documents. AI can shorten the reading, but every result still has to be checked for accuracy.
Can document work cost less without losing accuracy or confidentiality?
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Cyprus has an established international ship-management industry, where AI could help with maintenance planning and route choices.
Can ships operate more efficiently without adding safety risks?
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Schools and training programmes can use AI to support learning. They are also where people learn to judge its output, a skill every other sector depends on.
Can people learn to use AI well, in their own language and at their own pace?
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Research groups and small companies in Cyprus can use AI to turn ideas into products, provided they can test them at low cost and find customers.
Can a small team in Cyprus test an idea and reach its first customer?
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Combined with machines, AI moves from the screen to physical work such as inspection and logistics.
Can machines take on dangerous or repetitive tasks safely?
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Every digital service, AI included, depends on secure systems and data. AI can help defenders, and it also introduces new risks.
Can an organisation detect a threat and recover if its systems fail?
View sectorPriorities are editorial judgements by Cyprus AI Monitor about public value and the attention each sector needs. They are not official strategy rankings, readiness scores or EU AI Act risk categories.
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.
Published figures for Cyprus. These supplementary measures are not part of the index score.
7.7%
Observation period:
Share of covered businesses with 10–49 people employed reporting use of at least one AI technology.
Covers businesses in Cyprus with 10+ people employed in the economic activities the survey includes. Microbusinesses, finance and the public sector are excluded, so the figure cannot be read as the rate for any one sector.
15.3%
Observation period:
Share of covered businesses with 50–249 people employed reporting use of at least one AI technology.
Covers businesses in Cyprus with 10+ people employed in the economic activities the survey includes. Microbusinesses, finance and the public sector are excluded, so the figure cannot be read as the rate for any one sector.
35.1%
Observation period:
Share of covered businesses with 250+ people employed reporting use of at least one AI technology.
Covers businesses in Cyprus with 10+ people employed in the economic activities the survey includes. Microbusinesses, finance and the public sector are excluded, so the figure cannot be read as the rate for any one sector.
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.
79.19/100
Observation period:
Digital public-service benchmark for the life event of starting a small claims procedure.
The benchmark covers a single justice service. Lawyers’ use of AI and the speed and fairness of the courts are not measured.
62.7%
Observation period:
People aged 16–74 who obtained information through public-authority websites or apps during April 2024–March 2025.
Looking up information is not the same as completing an application, and the measure does not cover AI use. People over 74 are not included.
52.0%
Observation period:
People aged 16–74 who accessed information held about them by public authorities, April 2024–March 2025.
Covers several kinds of public record, so it is not a measure of access to health records. Viewing records online also does not mean giving permission to use them to train AI.
4,534,073
Observation period:
Arrivals of visitors staying at least one night, through points of entry in the government-controlled areas.
Arrivals are trips, not unique people. The figure cannot show whether AI contributed to growth in tourism.
€3,696.1 million
Observation period:
CYSTAT’s estimate of tourist spending during visits to Cyprus, in current-price million euros.
This is what visitors spend. It differs from the value added or profit of tourism, and it cannot identify revenue due to AI. Coverage matches the arrivals survey.
€1,001 million
Observation period:
Revenue of Cyprus-resident ship managers from non-resident clients, July–December 2025.
This is turnover for one half-year, which differs from annual maritime GDP. It does not describe the entire fleet or show savings from AI. The survey sample was revised in the second half of 2024.
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.
90.0%
Observation period:
Backups to a separate location, including cloud backups.
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.
17.8%
Observation period:
Share of internet users aged 16–74 who took an online course in the first quarter of 2025.
The share is of internet users rather than all residents. Courses on any subject count, and taking a course does not demonstrate AI literacy.
€213.6 million
Observation period:
Total domestic R&D expenditure, across all fields.
Includes research in every field, not only AI, in the government-controlled areas of Cyprus. Spending alone does not show whether research led to successful products or public benefit.
0.68%
Observation period:
EU average · 2023: 2.26%
Domestic R&D expenditure divided by GDP.
Includes research in every field, not only AI, in the government-controlled areas of Cyprus. Spending alone does not show whether research led to successful products or public benefit.
€10.5 million
Observation period:
R&D expenditure classified under medical sciences.
Includes research in every field, not only AI, in the government-controlled areas of Cyprus. Spending alone does not show whether research led to successful products or public benefit.
€66.1 million
Observation period:
R&D expenditure in engineering and technology.
Includes research in every field, not only AI, in the government-controlled areas of Cyprus. Spending alone does not show whether research led to successful products or public benefit.
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.