In 2023, 86.6 per cent of children in Cyprus aged between three years and the minimum compulsory school age received formal childcare or education for at least 25 hours per week, compared to 68 per cent in the EU, according to Eurostat.
The EU’s statistical service also reported that only 0.9 per cent of children in Cyprus, compared to 21.1 per cent in the EU, received formal childcare or education