GREECE

Capital Athens
Area (km2) 131 957
Total population (thousands, 2018) 10 733
Population density (per km2) 81
National currency Euro (EUR)
National statistical office www.statistics.gr
Hellenic Statistical Authority
Women in the labour force, 2019
   percentage of total for both sexes 44%
Gender pay gap
   monthly earnings, 2010 18%
   hourly wage, 2014 13%
Women in part-time employment, 2019
   percentage of employed women 14%
Female tertiary students, 2017
   percentage of total for both sexes 49%
Female victims of homicide, 2017
   percentage of total for both sexes 28%
Women researchers, 2017
   percentage of total for both sexes 38%
Life expectancy at birth, 2018
   females, years 84.4
   males, years 79.3
Life expectancy at 65, 2018
   females, years 21.9
   males, years 19.1
Total fertility rate, 2018
   average number of children per woman 1.4
Adolescent fertility rate, 2018
   number of live births per 1000 women aged 15-19 8.5
Mean age of women at birth of first child, 2017
   age in years 29.9
 
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
Employment
 (% change over previous year)
0.9
0.7
0.5
1.5
1.7
2.0
Unemployment rate
 (%)
26.5
24.9
23.6
21.5
19.3
..
Youth unemployment rate
 (%)
52.4
49.8
47.3
43.6
39.9
35.2
GDP
   current prices, millions of US dollars, PPP, 2019 336 486
GDP, per capita
   current prices, US dollars, PPP, 2019 31 413
Exports of goods and services
   % of GDP, 2019 37.2
Imports of goods and services
   % of GDP, 2019 37.2
Final consumption expenditure, per capita
   current prices, US dollars, PPP, 2019 27 476
Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
   EUR per USD, US=1, 2019 0.557
Forest resources
   Area of forest
 (percentage of land area, 2015)
 31
   Wood volume
 (m3 per inhabitant, 2015)
 18
Transport infrastructure, road accidents and traffic
   Railways
      total length in kilometres, 2017 2 240
   Motorways
      total length in kilometres, 2004 730
   Persons injured in road accidents
      per million inhabitants, 2017 1 234
   Persons killed in road accidents
      per million inhabitants, 2017 68
   Traffic, railways
      million passenger-kilometres, 2017 1 112
      million tonne-kilometres, 2017 358
   Traffic, roads
      million passenger-kilometres ..
      million tonne-kilometres, 2016 20 903