Breaking down unemployment by gender for Q1 2025, the rate among men was 6.3%, while for women it stood at 10.8%

Greek tourism offered a mixed bag for Q1 in 2025, with revenues in the Greek accommodation sector recording a 7.5% rise in the first quarter of 2025, according to official data from the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT). In contrast, the figures in hospitality showed a downward trend, declining by 7.6% over the same period. The […]

Social participation is equally affected, with 74.8% of children from poor households unable to regularly participate in recreational activities due to financial constraints.

Both newspapers and magazines saw significant drops in sales, continuing a multi-year downward trend that reflects changing media habits and broader challenges facing the print industry.

Looking at the 12-month period from February 2024 to January 2025, the total construction activity, both private and public, saw the issuance of 30,631 permits.

Rents have surged by more than 10% over the past year, and electricity prices have followed a similar trajectory.

Despite the overall decline, unemployment remains higher among women and young people.

Retail trade turnover in Greece saw a 2.5% increase in December 2024, according to data released by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT). In January 2025, the General Turnover Index recorded a 2.5% increase compared to January 2024. Compared to December 2024, it recorded a significant decline of 18.4%. Similarly, the General Volume Index, which measures […]

Arrivals and overnight stays in hotels, camping sites, and rental rooms recorded an uptick of 3.6% and 2.7%, respectively, in January 2025, according to provisional data released by Greece’s statistical authority (ELSTAT). According to data from the relevant survey, tourist arrivals at accommodations in January 2025 reached 742,865, while overnight stays totaled 1,656,673. This represents […]

Official data from Greece’s statistical authority, ELSTAT reaffirms a surge in foreign buyers’ interest in newly built, energy-efficient holiday homes and properties, as construction activity in the housing market saw a sharp rise in 2024. In recent years, there has been a notable shift among residential property developers toward the holiday home market in Crete. […]

The Greek trade deficit amounted to €2.8 billion in January, according to data from the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT). Specifically, the total value of imports for January 2025 amounted to €6,906.4 million (€7,129.6 million) compared to €6,598.0 million (€7,173.3 million) in the same month of 2024, marking a 4.7% increase in euro terms. According to […]

The data shows significant price increases in certain sectors, with hotels seeing a rise of 17.5%, air travel prices going up by 10.8%, rent rising by 9.9%, and health insurance premiums climbing by 7%.

The largest share of the workforce was made up of professionals (22.8%) and service and sales workers (22.3%).

The Greek economy grew by 2.3% in 2024, according to initial estimates from the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), with Q4 GDP running at 2.6%. According to the available seasonally adjusted data, Greece’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in volume terms increased by 0.9% in the fourth quarter of 2024 compared to the third quarter of the […]

According to the report, business registrations across all economic sectors for the year 2024 reached 132,507, marking an 18.3% increase compared to 112,002 in 2023.

Among the regions, the North Aegean recorded the highest turnover growth in 2024, with a 3.8% increase, followed by Attica with 3%.

Food inflation in Greece remained nearly stagnant at just 0.1%, while the highest price increases were recorded in passenger air transport (31.6%), natural gas (26.5%), hotels-motels-inns (16.8%) and residential rents (9.2%).

A total of 40,351 marriages took place in Greece in 2023, comprising 21,402 religious ceremonies and 18,949 civil marriages.

Conversely, numbers indicate that exports declined, totaling to 49.90 billion euros in 2024, down from 51.02 billion euros in 2023 marking a 2.2% decrease.

In January, services recorded the highest annual inflation rate in the eurozone at 3.9%, slightly down from 4.0% in December, according to Eurostat's latest data.