Editing Demographics of Greece (section)

==Population==
{{Main|Demographic history of Greece}}
{{See also|List of cities in Greece}}
[[File:Population of Greece since 1961.svg|thumb|Population of Greece since 1961.]]

{{Historical populations
|type =
| percentages = pagr
|footnote = Source: [[Hellenic Statistical Authority]]
|−1500 | 1500000
|−400 | 20000000
|600 | 10000000
|1600 | 700000
|1800 | 2500000
|1928 | 6204684
|1940 | 7344860
|1951 | 7632801
|1961 | 8398050
|1971 | 8831036
|1981 | 9729350
|1991 | 10258364
|2001 | 10934097
|2011 | 10816286
|2021 | 10482487
}}

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| width = 600
| height = 150
| xAxisTitle=year
| yAxisTitle= million
| yAxisMin=
| yGrid= 0,1
| xGrid= 10
| legend=
| type = line

| x = 1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

| y1= 5, 5.1, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 7, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.3, 7.3, 7.3, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8, 8, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.3, 8.4, 8.4, 8.5, 8.5, 8.6, 8.6, 8.7, 8.7, 8.8, 8.8, 8.8, 8.9, 8.9, 9, 9, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 9.7, 9.8, 9.8, 9.9, 9.9,10, 10, 10, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.8, 10.9, 10.9, 10.9, 10.9, 10.9, 11,11, 11, 11, 11.1, 11.1, 11.1,11.1,11, 11, 10.9, 10.8, 10.8, 10.8, 10.7, 10.7, 10.7, 10.6, 10.6
| y1Title= population (million)

}}

{{GraphChart
| width = 600
| height = 150
| xAxisTitle=years
| yAxisTitle= ‰
| yAxisMax= 20
| yAxisMin= -20
| yGrid= 0,1
| xGrid= 10
| legend=
| hAnnotatonsLine=0
| hAnnotatonsLabel=
| type = line
| x = 1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

| y1= 7.5,3.5,2.0,3.9,11.4,16.1,12.5,13.5,10.5,15.0,13.1,10.4,11.8,16.1,13.3,12.7,11.1,12.7,10.9,11.7,1.2,-7.9,1.5,4.8,13.4,18.3,18.1,15.2,10.6,12.9,12.8,12.4,11.1,12.2,12.5,12.0,11.6,11.9,12.0,11.6,10.3,10.1,9.6,9.8,9.8,10.1,10.4,10.0,9.4,8.1,7.6,7.2,6.7,7.6,6.9,7.1,6.4,6.9,6.9,6.3,5.6,5.2,4.3,3.8,2.4,2.1,1.1,1.5,0.8,0.8,0.7,0.6,0.4,0.6,0.1,-0.0,0.2,-0.2,-0.3,-0.1,0.0,0.0,-0.1,0.1,0.2,0.6,0.2,0.9,0.9,0.5,-0.4,-1.5,-1.6,-2.0,-2.7,-2.4,-3.3,-3.2, -3.8, -4.3, -5.3, -6.4

| y2= , 3.7, 14,9.9, -5.6, -18.4,-2.2, 1.4, -0.1, 1.5, -2.3, 1.7, 2, 0.4, -0.9, 2.8, 1.5, 2.1, 0.3, 3, 1.5, 5.7, 5.2, -11.1, -2, -12, -2.1, -6.1, -17.9, -13.3, -3.1, -0.8, -1.2, -0.4, -2.6, -3.3, -4.2, -3.6, -2.5, -1.7, -2.5, -2.7, -4.2, -5.8, -6.3, -5, -2.8, -2.2, -3.7, -5.7, -5.8, -3.3, -0.7, -2.2, -3.9, 2.5, 6, 4.5, 6.5, 7.7, 5, 3.2, 1, 1.5, 1.2, 1.5, 1.2, 2.3, 2.1, 4.4, 6.2, 8.7, 10.3, 8.8, 7.7, 7.6, 7, 6, 5.5, 4.7, 3.4, -5.1, 3.7, 2.5, 2.4, 2.7, 2.4, 2.4, 1.7, 1.8, 0.8, -1.1, -4, -5.7, -4.7, -3.9, -1.8, 1.4, 1.1, 2.8, 0.3, 1.3

| y1Title=Natural change (per 1000)
| y2Title=Crude migration change (per 1000)
}}

<ref>Note: Crude migration change (per 1000) is a trend analysis, an extrapolation based average population change (current year minus previous) minus natural change of the current year (see table vital statistics). As average population is an estimate of the population in the middle of the year and not end of the year.</ref>

{{GraphChart
| width = 600
| height = 150
| xAxisTitle=years
| yAxisTitle= TFR
| yAxisMin=
| yGrid= 0,1
| xGrid= 10
| legend=
| hAnnotatonsLine=2.1
| hAnnotatonsLabel=
| type = line
| x = 1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

| y1= 2.84,2.88,2.55,2.61,3.52,4.02,3.86,4.09,3.87,4.19,3.83,3.8,3.84,4.16,3.77,3.68,3.51,3.47,3.32,3.29,3.19,3.08,2.98,2.88,2.78,2.68,2.58,2.48,2.37,2.47,2.47,2.48,2.49,2.48,2.47,2.44,2.42,2.38,2.36,2.33,2.32,2.32,2.34,2.37,2.41,2.46,2.51,2.54,2.56,2.57,2.57,2.55,2.54,2.52,2.33,2.35,2.28,2.29,2.26,2.23,2.10,2.03,1.94,1.82,1.68,1.60,1.50,1.50,1.40,1.39,1.37,1.36,1.32,1.33,1.28,1.26,1.27,1.24,1.23,1.25,1.25,1.28,1.29,1.31,1.34,1.40,1.41,1.50,1.50,1.48,1.40,1.34,1.29,1.30,1.33, 1.38, 1.35, 1.35, 1.32, 1.37, 1.38, 1.33

| y1Title=Total Fertility Rate

}}

According to the 2001 census the population of Greece was 10,964,020. [[Eurostat]] estimations as of January 2008 gave the number of 11,214,992 inhabitants in the Greek peninsula. According to the official 2011 census, which used sophisticated methodology, the population of Greece was 10,816,286.

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" style="width:15%; border-collapse:collapse; border-color:#f2f2f4; margin-top:5px; margin-bottom:5px; font-size:95%; text-align:center;"
|- style="background:#f2f2f4;"
| '''Census'''
| '''Population'''
| '''Change'''
|-
| '''1971'''
|align="right"| 8,768,372
|align="right"| –
|-
| '''1981'''
|align="right"| 9,739,589
|align="right"| 11.1%
|-
| '''1991'''
|align="right"| 10,259,900
|align="right"| 5.3%
|-
| '''2001'''
|align="right"| 10,964,020
|align="right"| 6.9%
|-
| '''2011'''
|align="right"| 10,816,286
|align="right"| −0.88%
|-
|'''2021'''
|10,482,487
| −3.1%
|}

===By region===
[[File:Population density of Greece regions.png|thumb|[[Population density]] map of Greek regions]]
Greece is divided into nine geographic [[Geographic regions of Greece|regions]]. The population of each region according to the 1971, 1981, 1991, 2001, [[2011 Greek census|2011]] and [[2021 Greek census|2021]] censuses is represented in the table below, comparing the change in population over a 50-year period. The latest population estimates by the [[Hellenic Statistical Authority]] are also included.

<ref>{{Cite web |title=Statistics – ELSTAT |url=https://www.statistics.gr/en/statistics/-/publication/SAM03/ |access-date=2023-02-25 |website=www.statistics.gr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός (προσωρινά στοιχεία) – ELSTAT |url=https://www.statistics.gr/en/2021-census-res-pop-results |access-date=2023-02-25 |website=www.statistics.gr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Census of Population and Housing 2021 |url=https://www.census2021.cystat.gov.cy/en/default |access-date=2023-04-23 |website=www.census2021.cystat.gov.cy}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! [[Geographic regions of Greece|Region]]
!Population (1971)
!Population (1981)
!Population (1991)
! Population (2001)
!Population (2011)
!Population (2021)
!Population (2024) <ref>https://www.statistics.gr/documents/20181/62ddcee4-f594-e35e-38eb-b2b633966c06</ref>
|-
| [[Aegean Islands]]
| align="right" |417,813 {{decrease}}
| align="right" |428,030 {{increase}}
| align="right" |456,555 {{increase}}
| align="right" | 508,807 {{increase}}
| align="right"|508,246 {{decrease}}
| align="right" |522,763 {{increase}}
| align="right" |528,253 {{increase}}
|-
| [[Central Greece (geographic region)|Central Greece]]
| align="right" |3,532,248 {{increase}}
| align="right" |4,125,463 {{increase}}
| align="right" |4,366,900 {{increase}}
| align="right" | 4,591,568 {{increase}}
| align="right"|4,586,626 {{decrease}}
| align="right" |4,514,663 {{decrease}}
| align="right" |4,476,345 {{decrease}}
|-
| [[Crete]]
| align="right" |456,642 {{decrease}}
| align="right" |501.909 {{increase}}
| align="right" |536,433 {{increase}}
| align="right" | 601,131 {{increase}}
| align="right"|623,065 {{increase}}
| align="right" |624,408 {{increase}}
| align="right" |622,491 {{decrease}}
|-
| [[Epirus (region)|Epirus]]
| align="right" |310,334 {{decrease}}
| align="right" |323.871 {{increase}}
| align="right" |327,176 {{increase}}
| align="right" | 353,822 {{increase}}
| align="right"|336,856 {{decrease}}
| align="right" |319,991 {{decrease}}
| align="right" |321,108 {{increase}}
|-
| [[Ionian Islands]]
| align="right" |184,443 {{decrease}}
| align="right" |182.327 {{decrease}}
| align="right" |189,338 {{increase}}
| align="right" | 212,984 {{increase}}
| align="right"|207,855 {{decrease}}
| align="right" |204,532 {{decrease}}
| align="right" |200,642 {{decrease}}
|-
| [[Macedonia (Greece)|Macedonia]]
| align="right" |1,890,684 {{increase}}
| align="right" |2,116,361 {{increase}}
| align="right" |2,225,690 {{increase}}
| align="right" | 2,424,765 {{increase}}
| align="right"|2,402,771 {{decrease}}
| align="right" |2,266,206 {{decrease}}
| align="right" |2,239,929 {{decrease}}
|-
| [[Peloponnese]]
| align="right" |986,912 {{decrease}}
| align="right" |1,014,485 {{increase}}
| align="right" |1,045,020 {{increase}}
| align="right" | 1,155,019 {{increase}}
| align="right"|1,046,897 {{decrease}}
| align="right" |995,410 {{decrease}}
| align="right" |985,134 {{decrease}}
|-
| [[Thessaly]]
| align="right" |659,913 {{decrease}}
| align="right" |695,724 {{increase}}
| align="right" |729,268 {{increase}}
| align="right" | 753,888 {{increase}}
| align="right"|732,762 {{decrease}}
| align="right" |688,255 {{decrease}}
| align="right" |678,747 {{decrease}}
|-
| [[Western Thrace|Thrace]]
| align="right" |329,582 {{decrease}}
| align="right" |341,180 {{increase}}
| align="right" |340,755 {{decrease}}
| align="right" | 362,038 {{increase}}
| align="right"|371,208 {{increase}}
| align="right" |346,259 {{decrease}}
| align="right" |348,071 {{increase}}
|- class="sortbottom"
! Total
!8,768,372 {{increase}}
!9,729,350 {{increase}}
!10,223,392 {{increase}}
!10,964,020 {{increase}}
!10,816,286 {{decrease}}
!10,482,487 {{decrease}}
!10,400,720 {{decrease}}
|}
{{increase}}/{{decrease}} = change since previous census

===Fertility rate===
[[File:Greece total fertility rate by region 2014.png|thumb|Greece total fertility rate by region (2014)
{| style="width:100%;"
|-
|
{{legend|#ffff7f|1.7 – 2.0}}
{{legend|#ffbf3f|1.5 – 1.7}}
{{legend|#ff7f7e|1.3 – 1.5}}
{{legend|#ff3e3e|< 1.3}}
|}
]]The [[total fertility rate]] is the number of children born per woman. It is based on fairly good data for the entire period. Sources: [[Our World In Data]] and [[Gapminder Foundation]].<ref name="ourworldindata.org">{{citation|url=https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-born-per-woman?year=1800&country=GRC|title=Total Fertility Rate around the world over the last centuries|first=Max|last=Roser|date=2014|work=[[Our World in Data]], [[Gapminder Foundation]]}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
|-
! Years !! 1850!!1851!!1852!!1853!!1854!!1855!!1856!!1857!!1858!!1859!!1860<ref name="ourworldindata.org"/>
|-
| align="left"|Total fertility rate in Greece||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|6.03|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.81 ||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.59||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.36||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.14||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.92||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.7||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.47||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.25||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.03||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.81
|}
{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
|-
! Years !! 1861!!1862!!1863!!1864!!1865!!1866!!1867!!1868!!1869!!1870<ref name="ourworldindata.org"/>
|-
| align="left"|Total fertility rate in Greece||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.95|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.87 ||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.78||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.94||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.73||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.03||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.83||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.85||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.86||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.77
|}
{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
|-
! Years !! 1871!!1872!!1873!!1874!!1875!!1876!!1877!!1878!!1879!!1880<ref name="ourworldindata.org"/>
|-
| align="left"|Total fertility rate in Greece||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.81|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.83 ||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.7||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.91||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.78||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.97||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.82||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.64||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.32||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.27
|}
{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
|-
! Years !! 1881!!1882!!1883!!1884!!1885!!1886!!1887!!1888!!1889!!1890<ref name="ourworldindata.org"/>
|-
| align="left"|Total fertility rate in Greece||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.28|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.38 ||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.35||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.83||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.82||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.01||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.19||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.38||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.57||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.73
|}
{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
|-
! Years !! 1891!!1892!!1893!!1894!!1895!!1896!!1897!!1898!!1899!!1900<ref name="ourworldindata.org"/>
|-
| align="left"|Total fertility rate in Greece||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.8|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.88 ||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.95||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.03||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.1||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.18||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.25||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.32||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.4||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.47
|}
{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
|-
! Years !! 1901!!1902!!1903!!1904!!1905!!1906!!1907!!1908!!1909!!1910<ref name="ourworldindata.org"/>
|-
| align="left"|Total fertility rate in Greece||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.35|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.22 ||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|5.1||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.97||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.85||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.72||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.6||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.47||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.35||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.22
|}
{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
|-
! Years !! 1911!!1912!!1913!!1914!!1915!!1916!!1917!!1918!!1919!!1920<ref name="ourworldindata.org"/>
|-
| align="left"|Total fertility rate in Greece||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|4.09|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.97 ||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.84||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.72||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.59||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.47||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.34||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.22||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|3.09||style="text-align:right; color:blue;"|2.97
|}

===Life expectancy===
{{See also|List of Greek regions by life expectancy}}

[[File:Life expectancy in Greece.svg|thumb|300px|[[Life expectancy]] in Greece since 1877]]
[[File:Life expectancy by WBG -Greece -diff.png|thumb|300px|Life expectancy in Greece since 1960 by gender]]

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!Period
!Life expectancy in<br />Years
!Period
!Life expectancy in<br />Years
|-
|1950–1955
|65.8
|1985–1990
|75.6
|-
|1955–1960
|67.2
|1990–1995
|77.4
|-
|1960–1965
|69.3
|1995–2000
|78.1
|-
|1965–1970
|70.1
|2000–2005
|79.1
|-
|1970–1975
|71.8
|2005–2010
|80.0
|-
|1975–1980
|72.8
|2010–2015
|80.6
|-
|1980–1985
|74.5
|2015–2020
|81.2
|}
Source: ''UN World Population Prospects''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/DataQuery/|title=World Population Prospects – Population Division – United Nations|access-date=2017-07-15}}</ref>

===Age structure===
Being part of the phenomenon of the [[aging of Europe]], the Greek population shows a rapid increase of the percentage of the elderly people. Greece's population census of 1961 found that 10.9% of the total population was above the age of 65, while the percentage of this group age increased to 19.0% in 2011. In contrast, the percentage of the population of the ages 0–14 had a total decrease of 10.2% between 1961 and 2011.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! rowspan="2" |Age group
! colspan="2" |1971
! colspan="2" |1981
! colspan="2" |1991
! colspan="2" |2001
! colspan="2" |2011
|-
!Population
!%
!Population
!%
!Population
!%
!Population
!%
!Population
!%
|-
| '''0–14'''
| align="right" | 2,223,904
|''25.4''
| align="right" | 2,307,297
|''23.7''
| align="right" | 1,974,867
|''19.2''
| align="right" | 1,664,085
|''15.2''
| align="right" | 1,576,500
|''14.4''
|-
| '''15–64'''
| align="right" | 5,587,352
|''63.7''
| align="right" | 6,192,751
|''63.6''
| align="right" | 6,880,681
|''67.1''
| align="right" | 7,468,395
|''68.1''
| align="right" | 7,122,830
|''66.6''
|-
| '''65+'''
| align="right" | 957,116
|''10.9''
| align="right" | 1,239,541
|''12.7''
| align="right" | 1,404,352
|''13.7''
| align="right" | 1,831,540
|''16.7''
| align="right" | 2,108,807
|''19.0''
|-
! Total
! colspan="2" |8,768,372
! colspan="2" |9,739,589
! colspan="2" |10,259,900
! colspan="2" |10,964,020
! colspan="2" |10,816,286
|}