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Villages across Greece are facing financial difficulties due to the financial crisis that has hit the country. The hard situation is also reflected in the numbers, according to Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT). The annual survey on income and living conditions in...

Greek households continue to pay more for staples despite deflation, according to a survey conducted by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT). Despite efforts made by the government to lower prices of basic goods, a shopping basket now costs more...

A large number of Albanian immigrants in Greece are returning to their country because of the financial crisis, unemployment and reduced wages. According to figures released on Tuesday by Albania's Institute of Statistics (INSTAT), in the period 2009-2013 about 133,544...

Recent figures published by ELSTAT, the Hellenic Statistical Authority, have shown that Greece's natural population decreased in 2013. In its analysis, ELSTAT took into consideration live births and deaths, not migration. The reports indicate that the Greek population decreased by 17,660 people...

"Greece will miss today’s European Commission deadline for reporting revised budget deficit figures for the past two decades, preserving a mystery about the degree to which Athens fudged official statistics in order to join the euro," reads a recent Financial...

Greece's unemployment rate fell slightly to 27.2 percent in May, from 27.3 percent in April, according to an announcement by the Greek statistics agency ELSTAT on Thursday. After peaking close to 28% in 2013, the unemployment rate has been declining at a very slow...

Greece ranks fourth among the 28 EU member-states with the highest percentage of citizens living on or below the poverty line, according to figures released by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) and published in a report by the Foundation for Economic...

The unemployment rate for Greece stood at 27.8% for the first quarter of 2014. It remained unchanged compared with the previous quarter, while showing a slight increase compared to the 27.6% rate recorded in the first quarter of 2013. According...

Greece's statistical service, ELSTAT, published on Friday figures showing that the rate of recession during the first quarter of 2014 was 0.9% of GDP, which is lower than the initial 1.1% estimation. According to ELSTAT, the discrepancy in the rate of recession is...

Nearly a quarter of tobacco products used in Greece are likely to have been smuggled in to the country, according to the latest data from the Center For Planning and Economic Research (KEPE). KEPE's survey aimed to define the extent of...