North Cyprus's population below 400k - Statistics institute

North Cyprus’s statistics institute on Monday released its population projection for 2022 on Monday, claiming there are just 399,727 people living in the north.

This projection is a world away from estimates made by others in frontline Turkish Cypriot politicians.

Meanwhile, Turkish Cypriot Mukhtars’ Association chairman Akay Darbaz had said the population is over a million.

He said he had concluded on that figure following a series of interviews conducted with mukhtars from across the north and described the north’s population growth as “scary”.

The statistics institute’s projection is close to that of the president of TRNC, Ersin Tatar however, who said in November that the north’s official population is 410,000.