🇬🇷Greece

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Population

10.4M

0.1%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

1.24

births/woman

Life Expectancy

81.8y

GDP / capita

$26.9K

Pop. Growth

0.08%

Net Migration

16.6K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Greece by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇦🇱Albania474.4K(33.3%)

+2%

🇩🇪Germany123.9K(8.7%)

+2%

🇬🇪

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male5MTotal 10.4M5.4MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

0.8

per 100,000

Divorce rate

1.9

per 1,000 · 2020

Births outside marriage

12.0%

of births · 2020

Home ownership

74.0%

of households · 2020

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

Religious composition (2020)

Share of population by religion

Source: Pew Research / census

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Foreign-born population over time

Immigrant / diaspora population living in the country

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

Foreign-born share over time

Foreign-born residents as % of the population

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

🇧🇬Bulgaria79K(5.5%)

+2%

🇷🇴Romania50.1K(3.5%)

+2%

🇦🇫Afghanistan48.1K(3.4%)

+618%

🇸🇾Syrian Arab Republic45.5K(3.2%)

+510%

🇹🇷Turkiye36.2K(2.5%)

+2%

🇪🇬Egypt, Arab Rep.30.6K(2.2%)

+2%

🇰🇿Kazakhstan29.2K(2.1%)

+2%

🇺🇸United States24.7K(1.7%)

+2%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Greece diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Greece who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇩🇪Germany242.6K(31.1%)

+39%

🇺🇸United States130.8K(16.8%)

−11%

🇦🇺Australia89.4K(11.5%)

−27%

🇨🇦Canada50.3K(6.4%)

−26%

🇹🇷Turkiye31.5K(4.0%)

−15%

🇳🇱Netherlands30.8K(3.9%)

+227%

🇦🇱Albania28.2K(3.6%)

−12%

🇨🇾Cyprus25K(3.2%)

+1%

🇸🇪Sweden21.8K(2.8%)

+93%

🇧🇪Belgium19.7K(2.5%)

+38%

🇨🇭Switzerland19.5K(2.5%)

+140%

🇮🇹Italy15.7K(2.0%)

+5%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Abortion rate over time

Induced abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–49

Source: WHO / Guttmacher (compiled)

Christian90.0%
Muslim5.0%
Unaffiliated4.0%
Other1.0%