EL · 2018 · migr_resfirst
First residence permits issued (total)
Greece, 2018
In 2018, Greece's first residence permits issued (total) increased by 18.6% compared to 2017, reaching 35,571.
Greece accounts for 1.3% of the EU-27 total of 2,791,528.
Greece ranks 14th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 94.4% (from 18,299 in 2013).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_resfirst, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.