Census: Where the country’s population has increased and decreased

Finally we were counted, and found ourselves… fewer! Today, the permanent population is 10,432,481 people and the number is reduced by 383,805 people or 3.5% compared to the 10,816,286 inhabitants recorded in the census in 2011. Women continue to be the majority, as they amount to 5,357,232 people (51.4% of the total population) and outnumber men by 281,983 people (5,075,249 people or 48.6% of the total).

It is noted that the 2021 census was the first digital and also the first to be carried out by state law (4772/2021) and was voted by the absolute majority of the Parliament. It employed 40,000 enumerators and 12,000 department heads.

As the head of ELSTAT points out Athanasios Thanopoulos, produced reliable data with depth and quality and the ability, for the first time, to immediately detect duplicate and virtual entries. Thus, a reliable statistical population register was created, while now all the inhabitants of the country are represented without exception in the official statistics.

From the analysis of the provisional results of the 2021 census carried out by ELSTAT, the following interesting facts emerge:

1. The five largest regions of the country:

– Attica, with 3,792,469 people, a number reduced by 35,965 people or 0.9% compared to 3,828,434 people in 2011.

– Central Macedonia, with a population of 1,792,069 people, which is reduced by 90,039 people or 4.8% compared to the 1,882,108 of the previous census.

-Thessaly, with 687,527 people, compared to 732,762 people in 2011 (a decrease of 45,235 people or 6.2%).

-Western Greece, with a population of 643,349 people, from 679,796 people in 2011 (a decrease of 36,447 people or 5.4%).

-Crete, with 617,360 inhabitants, a number that decreased by 5,705 people or 0.9% compared to 623,065 in 2011.

2. The five largest municipalities:

– Municipality of Athens, with 637,798 people (a decrease of 4% compared to the 2011 census and 664,046 people).

– Municipality of Thessaloniki, with 317,778 people, when in 2011 there were 325,182 people (2.3% decrease).

– Municipality of Patreon, with 211,593 people and a decrease of 1.1% compared to 213,984 people in 2011.

-Municipality of Heraklion, with 177,064 people, from 173,993 people in 2011 (1.8% increase).

– Municipality of Larisaion, with 164,381 people and an increase of 1.1% compared to 162,591 people in 2011. After all, this municipality displaced the municipality of Piraeus, which held it in 2011, from the 5th position.

3. The five smallest municipalities:

– Municipality of Gavdos: 151 inhabitants (-0.7%).

– Municipality of Agathonisi: 203 inhabitants (+9.7%).

– Municipality of Sikinos: 253 inhabitants (-7.3%).

– Municipality of Agios Efstrati: 257 inhabitants (-4.8%).

– Municipality of Anafis: 291 inhabitants (+7.4%).

4. Percentage-wise, most men are understood to be in Mount Athos (100%), while most women were recorded in the municipality of Filothei-Psychiko (54.8%).

5. Out of the 13 regions of the country, only one (South Aegean) saw an increase in population (15,527 people) compared to 2011. On the other hand, the decrease is dramatic in areas of Western Macedonia, where a decrease of 10 %, from 283,689 inhabitants in 2011, to 255,056 inhabitants in 2021. But also in the region of Eastern Macedonia-Thrace a decrease of 7.6% is recorded, with the population amounting to 562,069 people from 608,182 people in 2011.

6. The population may have increased overall in the South Aegean, but in Mykonos it decreased. Conversely, an increase was recorded in Milos and Naxos. In the Dodecanese, there is a 4.5% increase in the Karpathos and Heroic Island of Kasos regional unit, a 10% increase in the Kos regional unit, a 7.8% increase in the Rhodes regional unit and a 6.6% increase in the Kalymnos regional unit. On the other hand, in Kastelorizo ​​a population decrease was recorded to 492 inhabitants in 2021, from 584 inhabitants in the previous census.

7. While in the North Aegean region there is a decrease in the population by 2.6% overall, in the regional unit of Ikaria it increased even marginally (0.2%). Which is due to the increase in the number of inhabitants of Ikaria (8,555 inhabitants from 8,423 inhabitants in 2011), while in Fournos the population decreased to 1,346 people from 1,459 people in 2011.

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