The dataset at a glance
Every number comes from structured parsing of death notices published in Cypriot newspapers — no estimates.
Notices per year
How many death, funeral, and memorial notices were archived each year.
Newspapers vs official mortality
How many deaths announced in print each year, compared with Eurostat's registered mortality totals for Cyprus.
Unique names in newspapers vs official deaths
Coverage over time
Coverage = unique normalized names in newspaper notices divided by Eurostat total registered deaths in Cyprus (calendar year). Source: Eurostat demo_magec.
Age at death
Age distribution of the deceased (5-year bins, deduplicated by name and date), compared with official mortality statistics for Cyprus and Greece.
Share of deaths by age — vs official mortality
Age distribution by gender
Newspaper bars: share of obituaries with a stated age. Benchmarks: official deaths by age. Coverage is partial and skews toward funeral notices, so younger ages are under-represented relative to official totals.
Gender split
Inferred from Greek grammar in notices and name-based models.
By district
Five Cypriot newspapers
Phileleftheros carries the overwhelming majority of obituaries; the other papers fill in the long tail.
Total by newspaper
Notices per month by newspaper
Coverage heatmap (newspaper × 5 years)
Those left behind
Funeral notices list the mourning relatives. Here is what those listings look like across the archive.