Heart failure, strokes, blood clots, and rapid onset cancers among otherwise healthy young people have caused the mortality rates to skyrocket in Greece, while the fertility levels in young males and females are caused the birth rate to fall through the floor, recording the lowest number of births in almost a century.

The prospect of population collapse in Greece is a "ticking time bomb" and a "national threat" according to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.