Greece

Cyprus’ inflation rate for May 2016 decreased at a rate of -2.1%, according to the Statistical Service of Cyprus. The Consumer Price Index for May 2016 increased by 0.61 units to 98.66 units compared to 98.05 units in April 2016....

Statistics service ELSTAT has suspended until further notice the release of flash quarterly estimates on the country's gross domestic product because of divergences with provisional estimates, an official at the statistics service announced on Monday. The move means that flash...

The Greek unemployment rate fell to 23.1 pct of the workforce in December 2016, from 24.1 pct in the same month in 2015, but remained unchanged from November 2016 (figure revised upwards to 23.1 pct), Hellenic Statistical Authority said...

The Greek Asylum Service received 4,288 asylum applications in May alone, most of them from migrants landing illegally on the Aegean islands. According to the service, a total of 2,858 asylum claims were filed by migrants who arrived on the...

Greek unemployment rate eased to 24.1 pct of the workforce in March, from 24.2 pct in February and 25.7 pct in March last year, Hellenic Statistical Authority said on Thursday. The statistics service, in a report, said that the number...

About one out of every hundred employed and unemployed Greeks has submitted a CV in the online platform of the European public employment service, EURES. This was recorded in the quarterly report of the European Commission for Employment and Social...

According to a survey conducted by the European Statistical Authority, Eurostat, consumer goods and services price levels in Greece are more expensive than the EU28 average. Prices in Greece correspond to the 102 percent of the European average level. Norway and Denmark are on...

On September 27, 1831, Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first leader of Greece after the Ottoman occupation, was assassinated in Nafplio. His murder robbed the country from the chance to become a modern state sooner. Kapodistrias was born on Corfu on February...

The density of population in central Athens is the second highest in Europe, according to data published recently by the European statistical service, Eurostat. Two other areas of the Greek capital also feature in the top ten most densely populated...

The Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus had the lowest standardized rate of cancer-related deaths in the entire EU, it was announced on Tuesday, February 4, the commemoration of World Cancer Day. With 194 deaths for every 100,000 inhabitants in 2016,...

With more than a third of households unable to pay their utility bills on time, Greece has the unenviable distinction of topping all EU countries in the largest number of people unable to do so, according to data compiled...

Despite the substantial decrease in their incomes in the period between 2010 and 2016, Greek citizens seem to have not been very keen to curtail their plans to eat out. This is one of the findings of the statistical service of...

The population of Greece experienced a decrease in 2018, with the nation having 33,857 more deaths than the number of births recorded, according to official data released on Tuesday by the Greek statistical service, ELSTAT. There were a total of...

The unemployment rate in Greece eased down to 17.6 percent of the workforce in April from the rate of 18.2 percent seen in March, Eurostat announced in a report released on Wednesday. The EU statistical service's report revealed that Greece recorded...

Greece's Health Ministry sent detailed instructions to local authorities throughout the country on Monday regarding the strict implementation of a smoking ban in public places. The ban has been largely flouted ever since its passage by Parliament in 2008, but...