Greece

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    11,142,161 1
    Urban
    79.10% 1
    Rural
    20.90% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    11.3% 2
    Homicides
    0.85 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
    Level of Public Corruption
    69 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
    Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
    92 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 7
    Fertility Rate
    1.31 births per adult woman 5
    Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
    0.50% 5
    Life Expectancy at Birth
    81 years 5
    Adult Literacy Rate
    97.47% 5
    Internet Users
    63% 5
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$22,680 5

    These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

    Baptized Catholics
    133,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    1.22
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    305
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    138
    First Communions per Year
    370
    Confirmations per Year
    405
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
    1,436
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
    1,125
    Church Marriages per Year
    201
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    130
    Priests
    92
    Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
    77
    Catholics per Priest
    1,441
    Parishes
    77
    Catholic Hospitals
    1
    Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
    5
    • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
    • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
    • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
    • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
    • 5 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.
    • 6 Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022).
    • 7 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.