Major demographic downswing found in six regional units

Six determination units successful Greece – Arcadia, Lakonia, Lefkada, Messinia, Fokida and Lesvos – person recorded much deaths than births for 45 consecutive years, according to a caller study by the Institute for Demographic Research.

Fifteen different regions person had antagonistic earthy balances for much than 4 decades, while lone Rethymno and Iraklio connected Crete and the Dodecanese saw such trends for less than 4 years.

Since the aboriginal 2010s, deaths person consistently exceeded births, with 510,000 much deaths recorded from 2011 to 2024, starring to a colonisation diminution of astir 715,000.

Researchers property this to an aging colonisation – present 23% are implicit 65 – and declining commencement rates, which person fallen from 148,000 successful 1980 to 68,500 successful 2024.