Demographics & population — Greece
Population size, age structure, migration, ethnicity, language, education, and health indicators.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Demographics & population at a glance
Population size, age structure, migration, ethnicity, language, education, and health indicators. Key figure for Greece: 10,461,091
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Population overview
- Population
10,461,091
- Population Growth Rate
-0.35%
- Population Distribution
one-third of the population lives in and around metropolitan Athens; the remainder of the country has moderate population density mixed with sizeable urban clusters
- Urban Population
- urban population: 80.7%
- of total population rate of urbanization: 0.11% annual rate of change
- Population in Major Urban Areas
3.154 million ATHENS (capital), 815,000 Thessaloniki
- Population: Male/Female
- male: 5,117,862
- female: 5,343,229
Age & family
- Age Structure
- years: 13.8% (male 742,131/female 699,079) 15-64
- years: 62.6% (male 3,278,906/female 3,267,140) 65
- years and over: 23.6% (male 1,096,825/female 1,377,010)
- Median Age
- total: 46.5
- years male: 44.6
- years female: 48.3 years
- Birth Rate - births/1,000 population
7
- Death Rate - deaths/1,000 population
12
- Total Fertility Rate - children born/woman
1.41
- Gross reproduction rate
1
- Currently married women (ages 15-49)
54.1%
- Mean Age for Mother's First Birth (age 25-49)
30.7
- Mother's mean age at first birth
30.7
- Sex Ratio at Birth - male/female
- at birth: 1.07
- male(s)/female 0-14 years: 1.06
- male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1
- male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.8
- male(s)/female total population: 0.96 male(s)/female
Migration
- Net Migration Rate - migrant(s)/1,000 population
1.1
Ethnicity & language
- Ethnic Groups
Greek 91.6%, Albanian 4.4%, other 4%
- Language Note
Greek (official) 99%, other (includes English and French) 1%
- Nationality Noun
- Greek(s) adjective: Greek
Education
- Literacy - total population
97.9%
- Literacy - male
98.5%
- Literacy - female
97.4%
- Literacy Definition
age 15 and over can read and write
- Education Expenditures - percent of GDP
4.4%
- Total School Life Expectancy - (primary to tertiary)
- total: 20
- years male: 20
- years female: 20 years
Health & living conditions
- Life Expectancy at Birth
- total population: 81.9
- years male: 79.4
- years female: 84.6 years
- Infant Mortality Rate
- total: 3.4 deaths/1,000
- live births male: 3.8 deaths/1,000
- live births female: 3 deaths/1,000 live births
- Infant Mortality Rate - total deaths/1,000 live births
- total: 3.4 deaths/1,000
- live births male: 3.8 deaths/1,000
- live births female: 3 deaths/1,000 live births
- Maternal Mortality Rate - deaths/100,000 live births
8
- Physicians Density - physicians/1,000 population
6.31
- Hospital Bed Density - beds/1,000 population
4.2
- Health Expenditures - percent of GDP
9.5%
- Obesity - adult prevalence rate
24.9%
- Tobacco Use
- total: 33.5%
- male: 36.5%
- female: 30.5%
- Alcohol consumption per capita
- total: 6.33
- liters of pure alcohol beer: 2.13
- liters of pure alcohol wine: 2.66
- liters of pure alcohol spirits: 1.45
- liters of pure alcohol other alcohols: 0.08 liters of pure alcohol
- Drinking Water Source - percent of urban population improved
- urban: 100%
- of population rural: 100%
- of population total: 100%
- urban: 0%
- of population rural: 0%
- of population total: 0% of population
- Sanitation Facility Access - percent of urban population improved
- urban: 100%
- of population rural: 100%
- of population total: 100%
- urban: 0%
- of population rural: 0%
- of population total: 0% of population