The Greek population has been reduced by one million people according to Neos Kosmos. The bad news is that Greece not only has more elderly people than young, but it also has a million Greeks less than in 2001.
Even during the WW II period, Greece’s population loss has never been so high. In the 1940s, despite the 350,000 deceased due to war and hunger in addition to the exodus of Greeks for various reasons, Greece has never experienced such a high population decrease.
According to Greek National Statistical Service (ELSTAT), Greece’s population census showed that 10,787,690 people lived in Greece in 2011. 5,303,690 of them are males while the rest 5,484,000 are females.
In 2001, however, there were 10,964,020 people while in 2009, according to ELSTAT, they were increased reaching 11,282,571 people. But why are we writing about a decrease, you ask? Taking into account that foreigners living in Greece were up to 300,000 in 2001 and that they have been increasing by far at the present time so that they amount to 1,300,000 people for the time being (including legal immigrants only), we realize that the number of Greeks is drastically less than a decade ago.
As is obvious, financial crisis made many Greeks migrate while high death rates combined with low birth rates make the situation even worse. Experts estimate that by the end of next decade, Greece will suffer from even more decreases in population reaching the level of eight million people, a figure that harkens back to the country country in the 1970s.
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