Greece
Everything Palanor holds about Greece, in one place: 216 public signals, what its economy runs on, how often America’s largest companies name it, the news that names it, and Country Posture. Every figure is computed from stored readings and carries its source and date.
EuropeEuropean UnionEuro AreaOECD
The latest read
- GDP in current U.S. dollars: $280.6 billion (2025); 92nd percentile since 1960; highest since 2011; 1y +9.5%.
- Real GDP growth: 2.07% (2025); 42nd percentile since 1961; lowest since 2020; 1y −0.02 pts.
- Consumer price inflation: 2.48% (2025); 27th percentile since 1960; lowest since 2021; 1y −0.26 pts.
- Unemployment: 8.54% (2025); 10th percentile since 1991; lowest since 2008; 1y −1.48 pts.
- Household consumption, share of GDP: 69.1% of GDP (2025); 76th percentile since 1990; 1y +0.38 pts.
- Net exports, share of GDP: -4.53% of GDP (2025); 76th percentile since 1990; highest since 2019; 1y +1.02 pts.
Country Posture
What Greece’s economy is doing
Momentum
2025Inputs only. Did not pass the pre-registered back-test: 1996–2009: AUC 0.590 below 0.60; AUC 0.590 below the single-input baseline (0.624); 2010–2022: AUC 0.595 below 0.60; AUC 0.595 below the single-input baseline (0.641).
Inputs
| Real GDP growth | 2.1 |
| Growth against its three-year average | -1.2 |
| Change in unemployment | -1.5 |
| Change in the employment rate | 0.4 |
| Export volume growth | — |
| OECD leading indicator | — |
Resilience
202559Moderate buffers
0 = thin buffers · 100 = deep buffers
Moved most by reserves, months of imports (up) and current account (up) since the year before.
Inputs
| Interest as a share of revenue (2024) | 7.5 | 57 |
| Budget balance (2024) | 1.2 | 90 |
| Reserves, months of imports | 2.0 | 51 |
| Current account | -5.6 | 42 |
| Governance (WGI mean) | 0.40 | 51 |
| External debt | — | — |
Pressure
2025Inputs only. Did not pass the pre-registered back-test: 1996–2009: AUC 0.657 below the single-input baseline (0.672).
Inputs
| Inflation | 2.5 |
| Change in inflation | -0.3 |
| Currency move against the dollar | -4.3% |
| Conflict deaths per million | 0.0 |
| Political stability | 0.28 |
| Private credit, three-year change (2024) | -7.7 |
| Bond spread over U.S. Treasuries | -0.9 |
Posture describes what an economy is doing; it is not a rating and never ranks countries. Each input is read against the country’s own history and against every other economy that year. An axis shows a score only after passing a back-test fixed before any result was computed. Method and back-test.
Country Schemas
Where Greece is in its cycles
Where Greece sits in eight long cycles, each read from published statistics against a method fixed before any reading was computed. A stage describes; it is not a rating, and no stage is better or worse than another.
- Development stage
High mass consumption75% · 2025
Pre-take-offTake-offDrive to maturityHigh mass consumption20002025
- Demographic stage
Declining99% · 2025
High stationaryEarly expandingLate expandingLow stationaryDeclining20002025
- Debt cycle stage
Deleveraging78% · 2025
Early cycleLeveragingLate cycleDeleveraging20002025
- External balance stage
Immature debtor69% · 2025
Immature debtorMature debtorDebt repayerImmature creditorMature creditorCredit disinvestor20002025
- Export structure stage
Diversifying70% · 2025
Commodity-reliantDiversifyingManufacturing exporterComplex exporter20002025
- Structural pressure
Building79% · 2025
LowBuildingHighAcute20002025
- Middle-class stage
Affluent98% · 2025
Pre-middle-classEmerging middle classMiddle-class majorityAffluent20002025
- Electoral cycle
Pre-election99% · 2026-10
Post-electionMid-termPre-election2023-062026-10
Passport reach
Where a Greece passport opens doors
The share of world GDP, outside Greece itself, in the economies whose published rules let a holder of this passport in, as of October 2026. Palanor records the rules of destinations holding 88% of world GDP, from each government’s own list, and weights them by World Bank GDP for 2025. Rank is among 199 passports.
Work
33.9%rank 22 of 199
the right to work (free movement in full; treaty and working-holiday routes at half); 30 destinations in full, 3 at half.
Recorded changes
Investment migration programs
- Permanent Residence Permit for Investors (Golden Visa, type B.5, Art. 100 Law 5038/2023) residence · OpenGovernment minimum $283,039 for one person (agent fees excluded).
Reach is shown here and not weighted into Country Strength: it rewards membership of a free-movement area or a treaty more than the strength of an economy. Entry is always at the border officer’s discretion, and conditions (length of stay, fees, age limits) vary. Method, sources and the full ranking: Passports and citizenship.
Palanor calculation from each destination government's published rules; GDP weights from the World Bank (CC BY 4.0), one year for the whole line, so it moves only when a list changes.
GDP by expenditure
What Greece’s economy runs on
In 2025, household spending was 69.0% of GDP, government consumption 18.2%, investment 17.2% and net exports -4.5% (exports 39.5%, imports 44.0%).
World Bank national accounts. The parts can miss 100 by a few points (the statistical discrepancy).
Same World Bank definition for every country, so the shares compare directly: What each economy runs on.
IMF World Economic Outlook
The IMF’s outlook for Greece
The latest year before the October 2026 edition (often still an IMF estimate) and the IMF’s own projections. These are the IMF’s published forecasts, shown as published; Palanor does not project them further. Since the previous edition the IMF cut its growth forecast for this year by 0.0 percentage points (Palanor calculation).
| Measure | 2025 | 2026 IMF f’cast | 2027 IMF f’cast | 2031 IMF f’cast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Real GDP growth% | 2.1 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 1.6 |
| Inflation, average consumer prices% | 2.9 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 2.1 |
| Unemployment rate% of labor force | 8.9 | 8.0 | 7.6 | 7.0 |
| GDP, current US dollarsUS$ bn | 280.5 | 304.6 | 320.5 | 370.0 |
| GDP at purchasing-power parityintl $ bn | 466.3 | 490.6 | 515.0 | 592.6 |
| GDP per person, US dollarsUS$ | 27,041 | 29,413 | 30,989 | 36,051 |
| Current account balance% of GDP | -5.7 | -6.6 | -5.9 | -3.8 |
| Government gross debt% of GDP | 146.6 | 136.0 | 128.7 | 111.1 |
| Government overall balance% of GDP | 1.7 | 0.3 | -0.7 | -1.0 |
| Government primary balance% of GDP | 4.9 | 3.4 | 2.6 | 2.4 |
| Government net interest paid% of GDP · Palanor calc. | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 |
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook Database (edition on the projection). Dashed: the IMF's published projection.
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook Database (edition on the projection). Dashed: the IMF's published projection.
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook Database, October 2026. Provided by the IMF “as is” and free of charge from the IMF; the IMF does not endorse Palanor. Net interest paid is a Palanor calculation: the IMF's primary balance minus its overall balance.
Charts
The headline series
News
In the news
- White House asks Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign
The U.S. ambassador to Greece steps down after allegations of improper conduct including asking a donor to pay her credit card bills.
Palanor Wire2026-10-13neutral
- Trump asks Guilfoyle to resign as Greece ambassador
Trump's ally and former Trump Jr. fiancée faces departure amid reports she sought donor help with credit card debt.
Palanor Wire2026-10-13neutral
- Europe is emerging from one of its worst wildfire seasons on record. Deadly blazes this year ripped through countries including Spain, France and Greece, forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate and burning 699,000 hectares — an area more than four times the size of London reut.rs/3WpaVZX
Reuters · Bluesky2026-10-22positive · +record
- Greece rejects Libyan approval of Turkey-Libya maritime deal reut.rs/4BioR7Z
Reuters · Bluesky2026-10-20positive · +deal
- The White House asked Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign from her post as the U.S. ambassador to Greece after a string of damaging reports, including that she had asked a Republican donor to pay off her credit card. nyti.ms/47dHAnB
The New York Times · Bluesky2026-10-13neutral
- U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle said Tuesday that she would resign, shortly after new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia said Guilfoyle was being asked to leave her post.
More: cnb.cx/4i1LepH
CNBC · Bluesky2026-10-13neutral
- BREAKING: U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, resigns after allegations of improper conduct.
The Associated Press · Bluesky2026-10-13neutral
- Breaking News: President Trump asked Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign as a U.S. ambassador to Greece after reports that she asked a Republican donor to pay off her credit card.
The New York Times · Bluesky2026-10-13neutral
- White House says US ambassador to Greece Guilfoyle asked to resign reut.rs/4yiILgE
Reuters · Bluesky2026-10-13neutral
- Kimberly Guilfoyle asked to resign as Greece ambassador
Axios Business2026-10-13neutral
- BREAKING: Trump ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle has been asked to resign after allegations of improper conduct, the White House says.
The Associated Press · Bluesky2026-10-13neutral
- Trump says he is considering firing US ambassador to Greece reut.rs/4s5WJ42
Reuters · Bluesky2026-10-12neutral
- Royal Caribbean cruise ship woman missing for nearly a day found alive after 20 hours in sea off Greece
Marketaux (financial news API)2026-10-11neutral
- Greece agrees up to $4 billion US arms deal, sources say reut.rs/4AWJ3vU
Reuters · Bluesky2026-10-08positive · +deal
Headlines that name Greece, matched by name with fixed rules (a wrong match is worse than a missing one). Tone is read from each headline’s own words; no model reads or summarizes an article, and other publishers’ stories link out.
Company graph
Companies headquartered in Greece
Palanor’s company graph holds 64 entities headquartered here (GLEIF headquarters address, else legal address).
Signals
Every series about Greece
Grouped by theme, the most-read first. All 216 in the Library.
Growth and output10 of 57
- Population, Historical (Maddison): Greece87th percentile since 1; lowest since 1995; 1y −0.6%10,437,180 people2022
- GDP per Person, Historical (Maddison): Greece96th percentile since 1; highest since 2010; 1y +6.5%25,2842022
- GDP, Historical (Maddison): Greece96th percentile since 1; highest since 2011; 1y +5.9%263.92022
- Greece · GDP · USD bn (current)92nd percentile since 1960; highest since 2011; 1y +9.5%$280.6bn2025
- Greece · Real GDP Growth · % y/y42nd percentile since 1961; lowest since 2020; 1y −0.02 pts2.07%2025
- Greece · GDP per Capita · PPP USDrecord high since 1990; 1y +2.5%45,264 usd2025
- Greece · Country Strengthrecord high since 1990; 1y +4.6%66.5 index2025
- Greece · Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added · % of GDP40th percentile since 1995; lowest since 2021; 1y −0.195 pts3.57% of GDP2025
- Greece · GDP per Person · €record high since 1995; 1y +5.1%24,080 € per person2025
- Greece · Industry (incl. Construction) Value Added · % of GDP47th percentile since 1995; highest since 2022; 1y +0.222 pts15.2% of GDP2025
Prices4 of 6
- Greece Consumer Price Index (OECD)record high since Jan 2010; 1y +5.0%128.1 index2026-09-01
- Greece Inflation Rate (CPI, % y/y, OECD)90th percentile since Jan 2011; highest since May 2026; 1y +3.13 pts5.05% y/y2026-09-01
- Greece Purchasing Power Since 2019 (100 = January 2019)record low since Jan 2019; 1y −4.8%77.72026-09-01
- Greece · Inflation · CPI % y/y27th percentile since 1960; lowest since 2021; 1y −0.26 pts2.48%2025
Jobs and people at work6 of 7
- Greece · Unemployment Rate (OECD Harmonised, Monthly)0th percentile since Apr 1998; lowest since May 2008; 1y −1.40 pts7.4% of labour force2026-08-01
- Greece Unemployment Rate (Monthly, Eurostat)0th percentile since Jan 2000; lowest since May 2008; 1y −1.40 pts7.4%2026-08-01
- Average annual hours worked · Greece7th percentile since 1990; lowest since 2021; 1y −1.4%1,874.3 hours2025
- Greece · Female Labor Force Participation · %96th percentile since 1990; 1y −0.36 pts44.7%2025
- Greece · Male Labor Force Participation · %26th percentile since 1990; 1y −0.39 pts59.9%2025
- Greece · Unemployment Rate · %10th percentile since 1991; lowest since 2008; 1y −1.48 pts8.54%2025
Money, rates and credit1 of 2
- Greece 10-Year Government Bond Yield (Monthly)34th percentile since Jun 1997; highest since Oct 2023; 1y +0.84 pts4.23%2026-09-01
Stock market and listed companies2
- Greece Share Prices (OECD, 2015 = 100)84th percentile since Jan 1985; highest since Oct 2009; 1y +32.1%363.22026-09-01
- Greece Share Prices, Change Over a Year (OECD)68th percentile since Jan 1986; highest since Apr 2026; 1y −9.40 pts32.1% y/y2026-09-01
Government and debt10 of 19
- Greece · Budget Balance · % GDP (central govt)record high since 1972; 1y +2.391.22 pct_gdp2024
- Greece · Interest · % of Revenue (central govt)37th percentile since 1972; 1y −0.01 pts7.48%2024
- Greece · Interest · % of Expense (central govt)38th percentile since 1972; highest since 2018; 1y +2.10 pts7.27%2023
- Greece · Public Social Spending: Total (% of GDP)68th percentile since 1980; 1y +0.02 pts23.7% of GDP2024
- Greece · Public Social Spending: Family (% of GDP)96th percentile since 1980; highest since 2018; 1y +0.03 pts1.69% of GDP2021
- Greece · Public Social Spending: Health and Disability (% of GDP)80th percentile since 1980; 1y −0.29 pts6.85% of GDP2021
- Greece · Public Social Spending: Old Age and Survivors (% of GDP)82nd percentile since 1980; 1y −1.70 pts16.2% of GDP2021
- Greece · Public Social Spending: Other Social Policy (% of GDP)82nd percentile since 1980; 1y +0.09 pts0.9% of GDP2021
- Greece · Public Social Spending: Unemployment (% of GDP)86th percentile since 1980; 1y −0.33 pts0.7% of GDP2021
- Greece · 10-Year Government Bond Yield · annual avg15th percentile since 1995; 1y +0.025 pts3.38%2025
Trade and capital flows6 of 7
- Greece · Nights at Tourist Accommodation (monthly)record high since Jan 1994; 1y +2.1%34.7 million nights2026-08-01
- Greece · Current Account · % GDP38th percentile since 1976; highest since 2019; 1y +1.50-5.61 pct_gdp2025
- Greece · Share of Tourist Nights by Visitors from Abroad (annual)95th percentile since 1994; highest since 2022; 1y +0.01 pts83.8% of nights2025
- Greece · Net International Investment Position, % of GDP (IMF)27th percentile since 1998; 1y −11.71 pts-144.8% of GDP2025
- Greece · Tourism Intensity: Nights per Resident (annual)record high since 2000; 1y +2.3%15.12025
- Greece · International Tourist Arrivalsrecord low since 1995; 1y −78.2%7,406,000 arrivals2020
Energy and resources10 of 17
- Greece · Business Electricity Price (incl. taxes) · € per kWh78th percentile since Jul 2007; lowest since Jan 2024; 1y −11.8%0.18 € per kWh2026-01-01
- Greece · Household Electricity Price (incl. taxes) · € per kWh96th percentile since Jul 2007; highest since Jul 2022; 1y +4.2%0.24 € per kWh2026-01-01
- Greece · Bioenergy Share of Electricity Generation90th percentile since 2000; lowest since 2022; 1y −0.01 pts1.23% of generation2025
- Greece · Carbon Intensity of Electricity6th percentile since 2000; 1y +0.9%324.8 gCO2e/kWh2025
- Greece · Coal Share of Electricity Generationrecord low since 2000; 1y −0.98 pts4.75% of generation2025
- Greece · Electricity Generation67th percentile since 2000; highest since 2012; 1y +1.4%57.9 TWh2025
- Greece · Gas Share of Electricity Generation90th percentile since 2000; highest since 2021; 1y +2.58 pts40.3% of generation2025
- Greece · Hydro Share of Electricity Generation17th percentile since 2000; lowest since 2008; 1y −0.34 pts5.93% of generation2025
- Greece · Other Fossil Fuels Share of Electricity Generationrecord low since 2000; 1y −0.1 pts7.22% of generation2025
- Greece · Solar Share of Electricity Generation94th percentile since 2000; 1y −0.06 pts19.7% of generation2025
Conflict and geopolitics5 of 11
- U.S. Active-Duty Troops in Greece (DMDC)record high since Sep 2008; 1y +17.2%477 persons2026-08-31
- Greece · Governance · WGI six-dimension mean35th percentile since 1996; 1y +1.8%0.4 index2025
- Greece · Political Stability · WGI50th percentile since 1996; 1y +7.8%0.28 index2025
- Greece · Regulatory Quality · WGI31st percentile since 1996; lowest since 2018; 1y −7.3%0.42 index2025
- Greece · Rule of Law · WGI6th percentile since 1996; 1y +27.8%0.29 index2025
Aid in and out2
- Greece · Foreign Aid (Official Development Assistance) · US$ billions59th percentile since 2015; 1y −3.8%0.36 US$ billions2025
- Greece · ODA as % of GNIrecord low since 2018; 1y −0.02 pts0.13% of GNI2025
Migration4 of 6
- International Migrant Stock: Greece (UN)record high since 19901,423,964 people2024
- International Migrants as a Share of Population: Greece (UN)record high since 199014.2% of population2024
- U.S.-Born People Living in Greece (UN)69th percentile since 1990; highest since 199524,748 people2024
- Change in Migrant Share of Population Since 2000: Greece (UN)3.862024
AI stance and technology6 of 8
- Greece · R&D Spending per Person · € per inhabitantrecord high since 1981; 1y +7.9%3492024
- Greece · R&D Spending · % of GDPrecord high since 1995; 1y +0.03 pts1.53% of GDP2024
- AI User Share: Greece (Microsoft AI Diffusion)1y +3.80 pts21.5% of people aged 15-642026-06-30
- AI Optimism Lean · Greece (Pew)1y −2.00 pts15.5%2026
- More Concerned Than Excited About AI · Greece (Pew)1y +2.00 pts49%2026
- More Excited Than Concerned About AI · Greece (Pew)1y −1.00 pts9%2026
Climate and the physical world6 of 8
- Greece · Arable Land · % of land5th percentile since 1961; 1y unchanged14.2% of land area2024
- Greece · Renewable Freshwater · m³ per person48th percentile since 1961; highest since 1992; 1y +1.3%5,5572022
- Greece · Forest Area · % of landrecord high since 1990; 1y unchanged37%2024
- Greece · PM2.5 Exposure · µg/m³record low since 1990; 1y −3.7%14.2 µg/m³2020
- Greece · Plastic Emitted to the Ocean by Rivers · tonnes per year (2015)171.5 t/yr2015
- Greece · Share of Global River Plastic Emitted to the Ocean · % (2015)0.02% of world2015
Health and living standards10 of 13
- Greece · Life Expectancy at Birth · yearsrecord high since 1960; 1y +0.1%81.8 years2024
- Greece · Access to Electricity · % of populationrecord high since 1990; 1y unchanged100%2024
- Greece · Human Development Index · UNDPrecord high since 1990; 1y +1.2%0.91 index2023
- Greece · Anxiolytics (Anti-Anxiety Drugs): Daily Doses per 1,000 People76th percentile since 1990; lowest since 2019; 1y −1.6%31.32025
- Greece · Sleeping Pills (Hypnotics and Sedatives): Daily Doses per 1,000 People13th percentile since 1990; lowest since 2015; 1y −28.0%5.42025
- Greece · Basic Drinking Water Access · % of populationrecord high since 2000; 1y unchanged100%2024
- Greece · Safely Managed Drinking Water · % of populationrecord low since 2000; 1y −0.19 pts96.7%2024
- Greece · Extreme Poverty ($3.00 a day) · % of population31st percentile since 1995; 1y unchanged0.6%2023
- Greece · Undernourishment · % of populationrecord high since 2001; 1y unchanged2.5%2024
- Greece · Poverty at National Lines · % of population18th percentile since 2002; 1y −0.8 pts18.8%2021
Sentiment and attention1
- Greece · Search Attention70th percentile since Sep 2021; 1y −6.4%44 index2026-09-20
More about this country2 of 18
- Greece · IMF Credit Outstanding · USD bn (IMF)record low since Sep 1974; 1y unchanged$0bn2026-09-01
- Greece · IMF Credit Outstanding, % of GDPrecord low since 1980; 1y unchanged0% of GDP2025
Peers
Elsewhere in Europe
Alphabetical. Palanor does not rank countries.
AlbaniaAndorraAustriaBelarusBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgariaCroatiaCzechiaDenmarkEstoniaFaroe IslandsFinlandFranceGermanyGibraltarGuernseyHungaryIcelandIrelandIsle of ManItalyJerseyKosovoLatviaLiechtensteinLithuaniaLuxembourgMaltaMoldovaMonacoMontenegroNetherlandsNorth MacedoniaNorwayPolandPortugalRomaniaRussiaSan MarinoSerbiaSlovakiaSloveniaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandUkraineUnited KingdomVatican City