Editing Economy of Greece (section)

== Wealth and standards of living ==

=== National and regional GDP ===
{{Main|List of Greek subdivisions by GDP}}
[[File:Greece peripheries GDP per capita.svg|thumb|GDP per capita of the [[administrative regions of Greece|regions of Greece]] in 2008.]]
[[File:GDP of Attica, Thessaloniki and the rest of Greece.svg|thumb|The country's two largest metropolitan areas account for almost 62% of the national economy.]]

Greece's most economically important [[administrative regions of Greece|regions]] are [[Attica (region)|Attica]], which contributed €87.378 billion to the economy in 2018, and [[Central Macedonia]], which contributed €25.558 billion.<ref name="Eurostat Regional GDP">{{cite web|title=GDP per capita in EU regions|url=https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/10474907/1-05032020-AP-EN.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604143258/https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/10474907/1-05032020-AP-EN.pdf |archive-date=2020-06-04 |url-status=live|publisher=[[Eurostat]]|access-date=5 March 2020|location=Luxembourg|date=5 March 2020}}</ref> The smallest regional economies were those of the [[North Aegean]] (€2.549 billion) and [[Ionian Islands (region)|Ionian Islands]] (€3.257 billion).<ref name="Eurostat Regional GDP" />

In terms of GDP per capita, Attica (€23,300) far outranks any other Greek region.<ref name="Eurostat Regional GDP" /> The poorest regions in 2018 were the [[North Aegean]] (€11,800), [[Eastern Macedonia and Thrace]] (€11,900) and [[Epirus (region)|Epirus]] (€12,200).<ref name="Eurostat Regional GDP" /> At the national level, GDP per capita in 2018 was €17,200.<ref name="Eurostat Regional GDP" />

{|class="wikitable sortable"
|+'''Regional GDP, 2018'''<ref name="Eurostat Regional GDP" />
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#ccc;"
! data-sort-type="number"|Rank
! data-sort-type="text"|Region
! data-sort-type="number"|GDP<br />(€, [[1,000,000,000|billions]])
! data-sort-type="number"|Share in EU-27/national GDP<br />(%)
! data-sort-type="number"|GDP<br />per capita<br />(€)
! data-sort-type="number"|GDP<br />per capita<br />([[purchasing power parity|PPS]])
! data-sort-type="number"|GDP<br />per capita<br />(€, EU27=100)
! data-sort-type="number"|GDP<br />per capita<br />(PPS, EU27=100)
! data-sort-type="number"|GDP<br />per person employed<br />(PPS, EU27=100)
|- style="display:none;"
|0||a||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 1 || style="text-align:left;"| [[Attica (region)|Attica]] || 87.378 || 47.3 || 23,300 || 28,000 || 77 || 93 || 99
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 2 || style="text-align:left;"| [[Central Macedonia]] || 25.558 || 13.8 || 13,600 || 16,400 || 45 || 54 || 69
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 3 || style="text-align:left;"| [[Thessaly]] || 9.658 || 5.2 || 13,400 || 16,100 || 44 || 53 || 65
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 4 || style="text-align:left;"| [[Crete]] || 9.386 || 5.1 || 14,800 || 17,800 || 49 || 59 || 68
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 5 || style="text-align:left;"| [[Central Greece (administrative region)|Central Greece]] || 8.767 || 4.7 || 15,800 || 18,900 || 52 || 63 || 81
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 6 || style="text-align:left;"| [[Western Greece]] || 8.322 || 4.5 || 12,700 || 15,200 || 42 || 50 || 65
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 7 || style="text-align:left;"| [[Peloponnese (region)|Peloponnese]] || 8.245 || 4.5 || 14,300 || 17,200 || 48 || 57 || 68
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 8 || style="text-align:left;"| [[Eastern Macedonia and Thrace]] || 7.166 || 3.9 || 11,900 || 14,300 || 40 || 48 || 61
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 9 || style="text-align:left;"| [[South Aegean]] || 6.387 || 3.5 || 18,700 || 22,400 || 62 || 74 || 79
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 10 || style="text-align:left;"| [[Epirus (region)|Epirus]] || 4.077 || 2.2 || 12,200 || 14,700 || 40 || 49 || 63
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 11 || style="text-align:left;"| [[Western Macedonia]] || 3.963 || 2.1 || 14,800 || 17,700 || 49 || 59 || 79
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 12 || style="text-align:left;"| [[Ionian Islands (region)|Ionian Islands]] || 3.257 || 1.8 || 16,000 || 19,100 || 53 || 63 || 71
|- style="text-align:center;"
| 13 || style="text-align:left;"| [[North Aegean]] || 2.549 || 1.4 || 11,800 || 14,200 || 39 || 47 || 67
|-
|colspan="7"|
|- style="text-align:center;"
| – || style="text-align:left;"| [[Greece]] || 184.714 || 1 || 17,200 || 20,700 || 57 || 69 || 81
|-
|colspan="7"|
|- style="text-align:center;"
| – || style="text-align:left;"| [[European Union|EU27]] || 13,483.857 || 100 || 30,200 || 30,200 || 100 || 100 || 100
|- style="display:none;"
|100||z||1000000000000000||1000||100||1000000000||1000
|}

=== Welfare state ===
{{See also|Health care in Greece}}

Greece is a [[welfare state]] which provides a number of [[social services]] such as quasi-[[universal health care]] and [[pension]]s. In the 2012 budget, expenses for the welfare state (excluding education) stand at an estimated €22.487 billion<ref name="Budget 2012" /> (€6.577 billion for pensions<ref name="Budget 2012" /> and €15.910 billion for social security and health care expenses),<ref name="Budget 2012" /> or 31.9% of the all state expenses.<ref name="Budget 2012" />