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| Currency | Euro (EUR, €) |
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Fiscal year | Calendar year[1] |
Trade organisations | EU, WTO, OECD, BIS, BSEC[1] |
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| Population |  10,413,982 (1 January 2023)[5] |
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Inflation (CPI) |
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Population below poverty line |  26.1% at risk of poverty or social exclusion (2023)[10] |
Gini coefficient |  31.8 medium (2023)[11] |
Human Development Index |
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Labour force |
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Average gross salary |  €17,514 (2023; annual)[17] |
Average net salary | €13,784 (2023; annual, equivalised)[18] |
Main industries | shipping and shipbuilding (4th; 2011),[19][20] tourism, food and tobacco processing, textiles, chemicals, metal products; mining, petroleum[1] |
| External | |
| Exports | €50.9467 billion ( −8.6%; 2023 est.)[21] |
Export goods |
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| Imports | €82.7795 billion ( −12.5%; 2023 est.)[21] |
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FDI stock | $65.12 billion (31 December 2017 est.)[1] |
Current account | −$3.114 billion (2019 est.)[1] |
Gross external debt | €436.071 billion (Q2 2016, provisional)[25] |
Net international investment position | −€234.542 billion (Q2 2016, provisional)[26] |
| Public finances | |
Government debt | €356.695 billion ( 161.9% of GDP, 2023 est.)[27][28] |
Budget balance | −€3.508 billion ( −1.6% of GDP, 2023 est.)[27][28] |
| Revenues | €107.835 billion ( 48.95% of GDP, 2023 est.)[27][28] |
| Expenses | €111.343 billion ( 50.54% of GDP, 2023 est.)[27][28] |
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Foreign reserves | $14.447 billion (31 December 2021 est.)[1] |
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The economy of Greece is the 54th largest in the world, with a nominal gross domestic product (GDP) of $250.276 billion per annum.[6] In terms of purchasing power parity, Greece is the world's 55th largest economy, at $430.125 billion per annum.[6] As of 2023, Greece is the sixteenth largest economy in the European Union and eleventh largest in the eurozone.[38] According to the International Monetary Fund's figures for 2024, Greece's GDP per capita is $23,966 at nominal value and $41,188 at purchasing power parity.[6]
Greece is a developed country with an economy based on the service (80%) and industrial sectors (16%), with the agricultural sector contributing an estimated 4% of national economic output in 2017.[1] Important Greek industries include tourism and shipping. With 31.3 million international tourists in 2019, Greece was the 7th most visited country in the European Union and 13th in the world.[39] marking a steady increase from 18 million tourists in 2013.[40] The Greek Merchant Navy is the largest in the world, with Greek-owned vessels accounting for 21% of global deadweight tonnage as of 2021; The total capacity of the Greek-owned fleet has increased by 45.8% compared to 2014.[41][42] The increased demand for international maritime transportation between Greece and Asia has resulted in unprecedented investment in the shipping industry.[43]
The country is a significant agricultural producer within the EU. Greece has the largest economy in the Balkans and is an important regional investor.[44][45] Greece was the largest foreign investor in Albania in 2013,[46] the third in Bulgaria, in the top-three in Romania and Serbia and the most important trading partner and largest foreign investor in North Macedonia.[47][48][49] The Greek telecommunications company OTE has become a strong investor in certain former Yugoslav and other Balkan countries.[47]
Greece is classified as an advanced,[50] high-income economy,[51] and was a founding member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC). The country joined what is now the European Union in 1981.[52] In 2001 Greece adopted the euro as its currency, replacing the Greek drachma at an exchange rate of 340.75 drachmae per euro.[52][53] Greece is a member of the International Monetary Fund and of the World Trade Organization, and ranked 34th on Ernst & Young's Globalization Index 2011.[54]
World War II (1939–1945) devastated the country's economy, but the high levels of economic growth that followed from 1950 to 1980 have been called the Greek economic miracle.[55] From 2000 Greece saw high levels of GDP growth above the Eurozone average, peaking at 5.8% in 2003 and 5.7% in 2006.[56] The subsequent Great Recession and Greek government-debt crisis, a central focus of the wider European debt crisis, plunged the economy into a sharp downturn, with real GDP growth rates of −0.3% in 2008, −4.3% in 2009, −5.5% in 2010, −10.1% in 2011, −7.1% in 2012 and −2.5% in 2013.[6][57] In 2011, the country's public debt reached €356 billion (172% of nominal GDP).[58] After negotiating the biggest debt restructuring in history with the private sector, which sustained losses in the order of €100 billion for private bond investors,[59] Greece reduced its sovereign debt burden to €280 billion (137% of GDP) in the first quarter of 2012.[60] Greece achieved a real GDP growth rate of 0.5% in 2014—after 6 years of economic decline—but contracted by 0.2% in 2015 and by 0.5% in 2016.[6][57][61] The country returned to modest growth rates of 1.1% in 2017, 1.7% in 2018 and 1.9% in 2019.[6][57] GDP contracted by 9.3% in 2020 during the global recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.[6][57] However, the economy rebounded by 8.4% in 2021, 5.6% in 2022 and 2% in 2023.[6][57] On 20 August 2022, Greece formally exited the EU's "enhanced surveillance framework", which had been in place since the conclusion of the third bailout programme exactly four years earlier.[62] According to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the event heralded "greater national leeway in our economic choices" and marked the end of a "12-year cycle that brought pain to citizens".[62] On 2 December 2022, Berlin-based credit rating agency Scope assigned a positive outlook to Greece's BB+ rating, presaging the country's return to investment grade.[63] On 31 July 2023, Greece's investment-grade status was restored by Japanese credit rating agency R&I.[34][64] Scope, DBRS, S&P and Fitch followed suit on 4 August, 8 September, 20 October and 1 December respectively.[37][65][31][66][67][32][68] The Economist ranked Greece the world's top economic performer for 2022 and 2023, citing significant improvements in five key economic and financial indicators.[69][70] Tourism reached an all-time record in 2023, with approximately 32 million tourists making Greece one of the most visited countries in the world.[71]
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The Greek shipping industry, one of the largest in the world, accounts for more than 30 percent of the income derived from services. It is exempt from government control, unlike other
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Greek ships make up 70 percent of the European Union's total merchant fleet. Greece has a large shipbuilding and ship refitting industry. Its six shipyards near Piraeus are among the biggest in Europe. As Greek ships primarily transport ...
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The Shipping Industry The shipping industry (the transport of persons and goods by sea) constitutes one of the most important factors for the Greek society and economy
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