June 30, 2024

Athens News

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Demographic collapse: population decline by 16% in just 10 years


The demographic collapse and gradual disappearance of the Greeks as a people from their historical geographical boundaries is now well known, and even Elon Musk recently made a corresponding comment.

The fact that the population of Greece during the years of the memorandums that destroyed the country sharply decreased in prefectures and regions of national importance by 16% is demonstrated for the first time. And if the population of Attica fell by only 0.9%, it is not because it did not experience a demographic decline among ethnic Greeks over the past decades, but because its population was replaced by at least 10% of those arriving in Greece foreigners.

The first prefecture in decline is Grevena in Western Macedonia with 16%, second is the once prosperous prefecture of Serres with over 14%, followed by the prefecture of Evrytania with 13%, and then the prefectures of Kilkis and Florina with over 12%. It is significant that the districts of Serres and Evrytania, which would normally benefit from the political mastodons in power for the last 50 years, Karamanlis and Bakoyannis-Mitsotakis, are in fact “bleeding.”

Phthiotis Prefecture is at the same tragic level, with a population decline of 12.9%, but where the problem becomes national is in the prefecture of Evros, which has lost almost 10% of its population! There wasn't even a need for war.

In the Peloponnese, Arcadia and Messinia also lost 10% of the population, and in Achaia there is exactly the same picture as in Attica: the population decline is small (2.4%) only because huge masses of foreigners ended up in the prefecture trying to leave for Italy, and thus simply replaced Greek population, showing virtually a slight decline in a prefecture that has suffered severely from deindustrialization. Aitoloakarnania, Phocis and Boeotia also lost 10% of the population.

The only regions in Greece where the population has hardly decreased are Cyclades and Crete, mainly due to tourism, but Dodecanese the population even increased by 7.4% due to migration flows. However, the number of ethnic Greeks on these islands has decreased… Look at the map and you will understand everything:

Greece's population is declining, but in some regions the decline is happening faster than in others. The map shows population changes in Greece by province from 2011 to 2021.


According to Eurostat forecasts, the population of Greece will decrease from 10.438 million in 2022 to 7.777 million in 2070, with 50% of the population at that time will be foreigners.

In addition, the coefficient of dependence of older people on the economically active population increases from 39.0 in 2022 to 74.4 in 2050, and then begins to decrease to 66.0 in 2070.





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