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Greece

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Greece is a country. The capital city is Athens, located in the Southern Europe region of Europe. It has a land area of 128,900 km², a population of 10,405,588 people and uses the currency Euro. The Prime Minister is Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Key facts

currency: Euro
capital city: Athens
region: Southern Europe
continent: Europe
land area: 128,900 km²
population: 10,405,588 people
political leader: Kyriakos Mitsotakis (Prime Minister)

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central government debt: 202.08 % of GDP
expense: 50.64 % of GDP
GDP: 243,498,333,237.80 current US$
inflation: 3.46 annual %
self-employed workers: 30.95 % of total employment
tax revenue: 27.64 % of GDP
unemployment: 11.07 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 23.67 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 147,000 people
democracy score: 7.29
democracy type: Flawed democracy
individuals using the Internet: 85.00 % of population
military expenditure: 3.23 % of GDP
net migration: -159,430 people
press freedom: 2.69
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 23.00 %
birth rate: 7.30 per 1,000 people
death rate: 13.40 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 1,845.78 current US$
health expenditure: 9.17 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.08 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 4.24 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 81
suicide mortality rate: 5.10 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 58,671.88 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 6.20 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 51.67 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 100.00 % of population
electricity production from coal sources: 42.66 % of total
electricity production from natural gas sources: 17.54 % of total
electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 11.77 % of total
electricity production from nuclear sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from oil sources: 10.93 % of total
electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 16.89 % of total
net energy imports: 64.18 % of energy use
fertility rate: 1.43 births per woman
forest area: 39,018 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 82.57 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 69.27 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 41.70
methane emissions: 10.32 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 3.15 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 5,365,598 people
male population: 5,039,990 people
renewable energy consumption: 21.50 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 128,795.91 km²
rural population: 2,011,088 people
urban land area: 2,748.66 km²
urban population: 8,394,500 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 2.87 % of total population

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