Demographics of Greece
Last update on October 4, 2024
Demographics in Greece has become a crucial issue shaping the country’s economic, social, and political landscape. Demographic data, and much of it is negative, is heavily influencing government policy, the business strategies of companies in Hellas, and is impacting how social services are planned far into the future.
One of the simple explanations for the demographic decline is that as Greece was integrated into the EU, the population growth numbers began to change to reflect the overall European numbers, which is to say, fewer and fewer children being born with life expectancies becoming longer for everyone else.
MEDIA REPORTS
The "Greek panic" over falling birthrates
October 4, 2024: Story at UK Daily Express [English]
Fighting population "time bomb" in Greece
September 17, 2024: Story at Newsweek [English]
Demographic pressure leading to changes in retirement ages
August 19, 2024: Story at To Vima [Greek]
The coming demographic effect on pensions
July 19, 2024: Story at Ta Nea [Greek]
The shock report from Bank of Greece on employment, demographics and the sheer lack of young people
July 7, 2024: Story at Capital [Greek]
Pensions and demographics
May 9, 2024: Story at IN GR [Greek]
Former PM Karamanlis speaks on the difficult demographics of Greece, and the need for no illusions about Turkey
March 30, 2024: Story at Naftemporiki [Greek]
MEDIA REPORTS 2023
Demographics across Europe: Greece is aging
December 23, 2023: Story at Iefimerida [Greek]
Demographics in Greece continues slide
October 2, 2023: Story at Naftemporiki [Greek]
Demographics and adjusting the pension systems
May 11, 2023: Story at OT Financial Post [Greek]
ELSTAT counts Greece population at 10,432,481 people
Story at OT Financial Post [Greek]
MEDIA REPORTS 2022
The coming major shifts in worldwide demographics
November 17, 2022: Story at OT Financial Post [Greek]
Alarming demographic data for Greece
October 19, 2022: story at IN GR [Greek]
Demographics predict "third world takeover"
July 11, 2022:Story at OT Financial Post [Greek]
Pandemic speeding up demographic decline
July 11, 2022:Story at Imerisia [Greek]
Estimating Greece's Demographic Future
Find more statistics at Statista
Mitsotakis to speak on "Demographics, the great challenge"
June 6, 2022: Story at Imerisia [Greek]
Demographics: Greece drops 400K people since 2011
July 10, 2022: Data at OT Financial Post [Greek]
Demographics a "ticking time bomb"
June 30, 2022: Story at AA [English]
Mitsotakis to speak on "Demographics, the great challenge"
June 8, 2022: Story at Imerisia [Greek]
MEDIA REPORTS 2021 & OLDER
Estimated population 10.72 million (2020) people (new data coming in December 2022 from The Hellenic Statistical Authority web site)
Feb 2021: The demographic crisis
Story at Protothema [English]
July 2020: Demographic pressures continue as birth rates decline
Story at Cyclades 24 [Greek]
February 4, 2020: Shrinking demographics prompts benefit to promote childbirth
Story at UK Guardian [English] and at Newsweek [English]
June 17, 2019: European life expectancy expected to expand
Demographics at Ethnos [Greek]
Population decrease on the horizon
Another report on the negative numbers for future Greece demographics
Oct 18, 2018: Story at Greek Reporter
The "big Headwind" for Greece are Demographics
August 23, 2018 Story at Wall Street Journal [English]
Dismal Demographics of Greece - NY Times
Dec 9, 2013:
Dismal Demographics of Greece - NY Times
"The Greeks are in a struggle for survival. And the odds are piling up against us ...Deaths are outnumbering births, people are leaving the country, and the population is aging so fast that in a few decades Greece may be unable to produce enough wealth to take care of its people..."
The analysis at the NY Times shows that the chief problem is that the aged population is now outnumbering working age people in many villages, and the problem is only due to get worse.
Article by Nikos Konstandaras focuses on how younger adults are choosing to only have one child (if any). Joining the EU has turned out to be a two-edged sword on more than just loan money and bank-book balances, as Greece has quickly shifted into the declining birth-rate norm of Europe.
However, Konstandaras does hold out two aces in the Greek back pocket: a loyal diaspora that funnels wealth back home, and a hoped for immigration reform that allows an offset of incoming foreign immigrants.
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