The present report provides an introduction to the current politics of population in the island�s north and assesses the last census of 2011, which was the first that was undertaken with unofficial United Nations supervision. However, since that census there have been other changes in the population, such as large numbers of naturalizations and an exponential increase in university student numbers. The report examines the available data to give an overall assessment of both de jure and de facto populations in north Cyprus today.