Greek youth leave home at 30.9, among Europe's latest, as low wages and soaring rents make independent living nearly impossible.

Greece trails all EU countries in adult education participation, despite hundreds of millions in Recovery Fund training spending

EU primary enrollment dipped slightly in 2024, while pupil-teacher ratios kept falling across the bloc — Greece posted the EU's lowest.

Only 9.8% of people aged 16-74 in Greece checked the truthfulness of online content in 2025, according to Eurostat data used in the European Commission’s 2026 Digital Decade report

Eurostat: Greece's inflation climbed to 3.7% in August, while eurozone inflation reached 3.3%, boosting expectations of an ECB rate hike.

The modern housing crisis has different starting points and causes by region, but all trace back to a shared path of global economic and social change

New ELSTAT figures show Greece aging faster than most of the EU, with 182 people over 65 for every 100 children

Eurostat data show the South Aegean recorded 127.2 tourist overnight stays per resident in 2024, followed by the Ionian Islands with 102.6, highlighting the intense pressure tourism places on Greece’s island destinations

New figures from Eurostat show Greek consumer prices eased in July even as inflation edged higher across the wider EU and Britain, largely on energy costs

Nearly one in two Greeks could not afford a seven-day vacation in 2025 due to the rising cost of living

Eurostat's preliminary June data show inflation easing across Greece and the eurozone

Greece ranks last in the EU for graduate employment, with just 62.4% of recent graduates in work, widening the gap with the European average.

Greece's inflation stood at 4.9% in May, well above the EU average of 3.3% and the Eurozone rate of 3.2%, highlighting stronger price pressures.

Eurostat data puts Greece well above the eurozone average, with energy costs and services driving prices higher across the bloc ahead of a closely watched ECB decision next week.

In Greece, men in full-time employment worked an average of 41.8 hours per week in 2025 — one of the highest figures in Europe — while women worked 38.8 hours.

Eurostat data put Greece's annual inflation rate at 4.6% in April 2026, well above the EU average, as fuel, energy, and transport costs post sharp year-on-year increases.

The alarming findings rank Greeks second last among EU member states, only above Bulgaria, which stood at 29.8 percent.

The disparity is particularly worrying, as the full impact of the ongoing war in the Middle East has yet to be factored in.

Across the euro area, annual inflation stood at 1.9% in February 2026, up from 1.7% in January and in line with Eurostat’s preliminary reading.

Before the decade-long financial and economic crisis that bedeviled the country, beginning in late 2009, more than 80% of Greek households owned their residence. Today, 30.3% of the population lease their abode