World population/Greece
Europe
Population of Greece
9,897,119
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#95
world rank
0.12%
of world population
-0.44%
yearly change
-43,146
people this year
67,361
births a year
124,938
deaths a year
How the figure for Greece is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Greece at 9,897,119 on 1 July 2026, and projects 9,853,973 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people lost every second.
That places Greece at number 95 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.12 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 50 entries in Europe.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 67,361 births and 124,938 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Europe
Ranked by population.