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Official results for permanent population were published on 17 March 2023. A total of 10,482,487 people were counted during the census, denoting a 3.1% decline from the population of the 2011 census. Out of the total number of inhabitants, 5,125,977 (48.9% of the total population) were male and
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Historically, censuses in Greece have been beset by under-counting issues. The 2021 census reported 10.48 million people, 3.1% less than the 2011 census. It has been argued that the accuracy of the 2021 census is questionable, due to its long duration, the inability of some people to answer it
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online, some refugees not being counted, the hostility of some people towards the state, land workers not being visited by the census workers and cases of census questionnaires being filled according to information by neighbors.
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estimates that, without migration, the Greek population will decline to 9.3 million by 2050, and to 8.9 million with lower fertility; the main
Eurostat scenario projects the country's population as 9.1 million in 2050.
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technologies were utilized in order to carry out the census. A design competition was launched in
September 2018, asking university students to design the census logo, and the winner was announced in 2019.
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791:"Απογραφή Πληθυσμού – οι προκλήσεις από το 2021 και μετά"
775:[2021 Population and Housing Census] (in Greek).
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514:Demographics of Greece
232:Administrative region
241:Percentage of change
163:as part of the wider
937:"PRESS KIT - ELSTAT"
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921:26 February
878:2 September
391:Peloponnese
187:geolocation
169:2011 census
1061:Categories
976:2023-08-17
951:2022-07-27
847:2019-02-22
823:2019-02-22
759:References
481:10,815,197
476:10,482,487
382:3,827,624
379:3,814,064
270:1,880,058
267:1,795,669
194:Background
183:Smartphone
572:1834–1836
503:See also
494:Problems
446:623,065
443:624,408
430:308,975
427:327,820
414:199,231
411:194,943
398:577,903
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350:679,796
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331:204,532
318:732,762
315:688,255
311:Thessaly
302:336,856
299:319,991
286:283,689
283:254,595
254:608,182
251:562,201
212:Eurostat
119:populous
97:populous
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219:Results
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64:Country
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462:1,811
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385:-0.4%
375:Attica
369:-7.1%
353:-4.6%
337:-1.6%
321:-6.1%
305:-5.0%
295:Epirus
273:-4.6%
257:-7.6%
157:Greece
153:census
126:region
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68:Greece
1016:is a
970:ΕΦΣΥΝ
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471:Total
439:Crete
145:Greek
115:Least
1018:stub
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880:2011
746:2021
740:2011
735:2001
719:1991
714:1981
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