The total population in Greece was estimated at 10.4 million people in 2025, according to the latest census figures and projections from Trading Economics. This dataset provides - Greece Population - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

The population density in Greece stood at 80.97 people in 2022. Between 1961 and 2022, the population density rose by 15.82 people, though the increase followed an uneven trajectory rather than a consistent upward trend.

Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Greece was reported at 80.97 sq. Km in 2022, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Greece - Population density (people per sq. km) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on August of 2025.

Total current population for Greece in 2025 is 10,263,298, a 0.38% decline from 2024.

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<li>Total population for Greece in 2024 was <strong>10,302,720</strong>, a <strong>0.99% decline</strong> from 2023.</li>
<li>Total population for Greece in 2023 was <strong>10,405,588</strong>, a <strong>0.3% decline</strong> from 2022.</li>
<li>Total population for Greece in 2022 was <strong>10,436,882</strong>, a <strong>1.25% decline</strong> from 2021.</li>
</ul>Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The values shown are midyear estimates.

Greece GR: Population Density: People per Square Km data was reported at 83.479 Person/sq km in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 83.599 Person/sq km for 2016. Greece GR: Population Density: People per Square Km data is updated yearly, averaging 78.274 Person/sq km from Dec 1961 (Median) to 2017, with 57 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 86.279 Person/sq km in 2010 and a record low of 65.152 Person/sq km in 1961. Greece GR: Population Density: People per Square Km data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Greece – Table GR.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population density is midyear population divided by land area in square kilometers. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of their country of origin. Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.; ; Food and Agriculture Organization and World Bank population estimates.; Weighted average;

Population ages 65 and above (% of total population) in Greece was reported at 23.94 % in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Greece - Population ages 65 and above (% of total) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on August of 2025.

Population density of Greece slipped by 1.25% from 82.0 people per sq. km in 2021 to 81.0 people per sq. km in 2022. Since the 0.54% downward trend in 2012, population density dropped by 5.51% in 2022. Population density is midyear population divided by land area in square kilometers.

About this dataset

Context

The dataset tabulates the data for the Greece, New York population pyramid, which represents the Greece town population distribution across age and gender, using estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 2019-2023 5-Year Estimates. It lists the male and female population for each age group, along with the total population for those age groups. Higher numbers at the bottom of the table suggest population growth, whereas higher numbers at the top indicate declining birth rates. Furthermore, the dataset can be utilized to understand the youth dependency ratio, old-age dependency ratio, total dependency ratio, and potential support ratio.

Key observations

• Youth dependency ratio, which is the number of children aged 0-14 per 100 persons aged 15-64, for Greece, New York, is 27.6.
• Old-age dependency ratio, which is the number of persons aged 65 or over per 100 persons aged 15-64, for Greece, New York, is 33.4.
• Total dependency ratio for Greece, New York is 61.0.
• Potential support ratio, which is the number of youth (working age population) per elderly, for Greece, New York is 3.0.

Content

When available, the data consists of estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 2019-2023 5-Year Estimates.

Age groups:

• Under 5 years
• 5 to 9 years
• 10 to 14 years
• 15 to 19 years
• 20 to 24 years
• 25 to 29 years
• 30 to 34 years
• 35 to 39 years
• 40 to 44 years
• 45 to 49 years
• 50 to 54 years
• 55 to 59 years
• 60 to 64 years
• 65 to 69 years
• 70 to 74 years
• 75 to 79 years
• 80 to 84 years
• 85 years and over

Variables / Data Columns

• Age Group: This column displays the age group for the Greece town population analysis. Total expected values are 18 and are define above in the age groups section.
• Population (Male): The male population in the Greece town for the selected age group is shown in the following column.
• Population (Female): The female population in the Greece town for the selected age group is shown in the following column.
• Total Population: The total population of the Greece town for the selected age group is shown in the following column.

Good to know

Margin of Error

Data in the dataset are based on the estimates and are subject to sampling variability and thus a margin of error. Neilsberg Research recommends using caution when presening these estimates in your research.

Custom data

If you do need custom data for any of your research project, report or presentation, you can contact our research staff at research@neilsberg.com for a feasibility of a custom tabulation on a fee-for-service basis.

Inspiration

Neilsberg Research Team curates, analyze and publishes demographics and economic data from a variety of public and proprietary sources, each of which often includes multiple surveys and programs. The large majority of Neilsberg Research aggregated datasets and insights is made available for free download at https://www.neilsberg.com/research/.

Recommended for further research

This dataset is a part of the main dataset for Greece town Population by Age. You can refer the same here

WorldPop produces different types of gridded population count datasets, depending on the methods used and end application. An overview of the data can be found in Tatem et al, and a description of the modelling methods used found in Stevens et al. The 'Global per country 2000-2020' datasets represent the outputs from a project focused on construction of consistent 100m resolution population count datasets for all countries of the World for each year 2000-2020. These efforts necessarily involved some shortcuts for consistency. The 'individual countries' datasets represent older efforts to map populations for each country separately, using a set of tailored geospatial inputs and differing methods and time periods. The 'whole continent' datasets are mosaics of the individual countries datasets

WorldPop (www.worldpop.org - School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton; Department of Geography and Geosciences, University of Louisville; Departement de Geographie, Universite de Namur) and Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University (2018). Global High Resolution Population Denominators Project - Funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP1134076). https://dx.doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/WP00645

Greece - Population was 10409547.00 persons for December of 2025, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Greece - Population - last updated from the EUROSTAT on August of 2025. Historically, Greece - Population reached a record high of 11123392.00 persons in December of 2011 and a record low of 10400720.00 persons in December of 2024.

Greece: Rural population, percent of total population: The latest value from 2023 is 19.33 percent, a decline from 19.64 percent in 2022. In comparison, the world average is 38.64 percent, based on data from 196 countries. Historically, the average for Greece from 1960 to 2023 is 29.24 percent. The minimum value, 19.33 percent, was reached in 2023 while the maximum of 44.06 percent was recorded in 1960.

Prior to 1829, the area of modern day Greece was largely under the control of the Ottoman Empire. In 1821, the Greeks declared their independence from the Ottomans, and achieved it within 8 years through the Greek War of Independence. The Independent Kingdom of Greece was established in 1829 and made up the southern half of present-day, mainland Greece, along with some Mediterranean islands. Over the next century, Greece's borders would expand and readjust drastically, through a number of conflicts and diplomatic agreements; therefore the population of Greece within those political borders** was much lower than the population in what would be today's borders. As there were large communities of ethnic Greeks living in neighboring countries during this time, particularly in Turkey, and the data presented here does not show the full extent of the First World War, Spanish Flu Pandemic and Greko-Turkish War on these Greek populations. While it is difficult to separate the fatalities from each of these events, it is estimated that between 500,000 and 900,000 ethnic Greeks died at the hands of the Ottomans between the years 1914 and 1923, and approximately 150,000 died due to the 1918 flu pandemic. These years also saw the exchange of up to one million Orthodox Christians from Turkey to Greece, and several hundred thousand Muslims from Greece to Turkey; this exchange is one reason why Greece's total population did not change drastically, despite the genocide, displacement and demographic upheaval of the 1910s and 1920s. Greece in WWII A new Hellenic Republic was established in 1924, which saw a decade of peace and modernization in Greece, however this was short lived. The Greek monarchy was reintroduced in 1935, and the prime minister, Ioannis Metaxas, headed a totalitarian government that remained in place until the Second World War. Metaxas tried to maintain Greek neutrality as the war began, however Italy's invasion of the Balkans made this impossible, and the Italian army tried invading Greece via Albania in 1940. The outnumbered and lesser-equipped Greek forces were able to hold off the Italian invasion and then push them backwards into Albania, marking the first Allied victory in the war. Following a series of Italian failures, Greece was eventually overrun when Hitler launched a German and Bulgarian invasion in April 1941, taking Athens within three weeks. Germany's involvement in Greece meant that Hitler's planned invasion of the Soviet Union was delayed, and Hitler cited this as the reason for it's failure (although most historians disagree with this). Over the course of the war approximately eight to eleven percent of the Greek population died due to fighting, extermination, starvation and disease; including over eighty percent of Greece's Jewish population in the Holocaust. Following the liberation of Greece in 1944, the country was then plunged into a civil war (the first major conflict of the Cold War), which lasted until 1949, and saw the British and American-supported government fight with Greek communists for control of the country. The government eventually defeated the Soviet-supported communist forces, and established American influence in the Aegean and Balkans throughout the Cold War. Post-war Greece From the 1950s until the 1970s, the Marshall Plan, industrialization and an emerging Tourism sector helped the Greek economy to boom, with one of the strongest growth rates in the world. Apart from the military coup, which ruled from 1967 to 1974, Greece remained relatively peaceful, prosperous and stable throughout the second half of the twentieth century. The population reached 11.2 million in the early 2000s, before going into decline for the past fifteen years. This decline came about due to a negative net migration rate and slowing birth rate, ultimately facilitated by the global financial crisis of 2007 and 2008; many Greeks left the country in search of work elsewhere, and the economic troubles have impacted the financial incentives that were previously available for families with many children. While the financial crisis was a global event, Greece was arguably the hardest-hit nation during the crisis, and suffered the longest recession of any advanced economy. The financial crisis has had a consequential impact on the Greek population, which has dropped by 800,000 in 15 years, and the average age has increased significantly, as thousands of young people migrate in search of employment.

Greece - Population as a % of EU population was 2.30% in December of 2024, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Greece - Population as a % of EU population - last updated from the EUROSTAT on August of 2025. Historically, Greece - Population as a % of EU population reached a record high of 2.50% in December of 2014 and a record low of 2.30% in December of 2024.

Population, female (% of total population) in Greece was reported at 51.56 % in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Greece - Population, female (% of total) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on August of 2025.

OverviewThis feature layer shows population change compared to pre-crisis baseline in Greece on a daily basis for all level 3 administrative units of Greece. The layer has time enabled to show the change from 2023-07-20 to the latest date when population change data harvested by Data for Good at Meta is available.Population maps provided by Data for Good at Meta are generated based on users of Facebook. For more information about the disaster population maps provided by Data for Good at Meta, please refer to this link.Default data visualizationA divergent color ramp was employed to create a choropleth map for % population change compared to the pre-crisis baseline. The size of pre-crisis baseline is visualized using circles in different sizes. Each polygon represents one Level 3 administrative unit in Greece.This feature layer contains the following metrics for mapping and analysis:Baseline population - an estimated number of Facebook users during the pre-crisis period. It is calculated as an average of 90 days before the crisis (in this case, 2023-07-20 was used as the onset of crisis).Crisis population - an estimated number of Facebook users during the crisis. Original data are provided every 8 hours.Difference in population - the difference between crisis population and the baseline populationPercent change in population - the percentage of population change from baseline to a given date during the crisisZ-score - a unitless normalized measurement to quantify the population change from baselineDate - Date of data acquisition. Original data are provided three times a day (8-hour interval). We calculated a daily average using all three timestamps available for each day. Users can filter by Date to create a subset showing the population change on a selected dateMethod of data preparationRemove data points without a valid baseline population or percent change in populationCalculate daily average using the three timestamps available for each dayAggregate the original point data to Level 3 administrative units of GreeceAppend all daily average level 3 administrative units data to a single file to enable time option of the layer

This line chart displays female population (people) by date using the aggregation sum in Greece. The data is about countries per year.

Population, male in Greece was reported at 5032215 Persons in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Greece - Population, male - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

Greece: Access to electricity, percent of the population: The latest value from 2022 is 100 percent, unchanged from 100 percent in 2021. In comparison, the world average is 86.75 percent, based on data from 196 countries. Historically, the average for Greece from 1990 to 2022 is 100 percent. The minimum value, 100 percent, was reached in 1990 while the maximum of 100 percent was recorded in 1990.

This scatter chart displays fertility rate (births per woman) against urban population (people) in Greece. The data is about countries per year.

Population ages 15-64, total in Greece was reported at 6528411 Persons in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Greece - Population ages 15-64, total - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.