Greece
High-income euro-area economy with tourism, shipping, services, and a long sovereign-debt legacy. Start with tourism receipts, investment recovery, public debt, banks, and ECB policy.
Greece
Overview
Greece is a Southeastern European economy. The profile should be read through tourism, shipping, public debt management, banks, and investment recovery, the monetary setting described by its central bank, and external pressure from the euro area, energy prices, Balkan trade, and Eastern Mediterranean security. The current IMF values give the cycle; national sources explain how that cycle reaches households, firms, banks, and public budgets.
How to read Greece
Start with the latest cycle, but do not stop there. IMF DataMapper current values put real GDP growth at 2.1 percent in 2025 and 1.8 percent in 2026. IMF DataMapper current values put average consumer-price inflation at 2.9 percent in 2025 and 3.5 percent in 2026. Those numbers tell you whether demand and prices are moving with or against the country's policy setting S6,S7.
Then move to structure. Greece's profile is shaped by tourism, shipping, public debt management, banks, and investment recovery. A good reading asks which of those channels is lifting output, which is absorbing labor, and which is most exposed to imported costs or foreign demand S1,S4,S5.
The final step is institutional. Currency: euro; monetary policy set through the European Central Bank. Parliamentary republic and euro-area member. Those two facts decide how quickly inflation, credit, fiscal pressure, and external shocks can be answered S2,S3,S4.