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Military Spending

'Bout a month ago, the article contained the figures for military spending. where did those figures go?

Project2501a 14:37, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

A-K-Y-R-O Project2501a 14:39, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Electricity generation

I believe that the vast majority of Greek electricity generation is from lignite, not hydro as reported in the statistics. Also, wind energy amounts to a few hundred megawatts and probably deserves a mention independently.

" In Greece today the mainer source for electricity generation is the lignite, representing roughly 59% of total production. The fuel oil that is used mainly in units of not connected system (islands) represent roughly 14%, the natural gas roughly 13%, the big hydroelectric roughly 6%. The production from RSE oscillates in roughly 2,5% and this is included the wind power plants, the micrometers hydroelectric work, the biomass and photovoltaic systems."

from http://www.argotrade.com/wind/

I read in a 1984 World Book that 25% of villagers did not have power, do they all have it now?

male/female work force ratio

According to EU12 ratings, IIRC after italy or portugal, greece follows with less women working compared to men in EU12. This is a main characteristic of economy growth and it is especially mentioned in EU advisory papers for countries. It's true that strong and very high growing economies like Sweden's show an equal share or even more women working than men. I strongly believe all this should analysed somehow in such articles.

New GDP data for 2010

Greece's Gross Domestic Product - GDP US$ 305.005 billion (2010 estimate) GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)- 322.555 billion US$ (2010 estimate ) [1]

Figures for 2020

Yesterday it was announced that the recession this year was at 8.2%, instead of 10-11%. It should be updated Gr19 (talk) 13:37, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]