The Greek economy will grow at roughly 2 percent over the next decade due of specific reasons, the Bank of Greece (BoG) governor Yannis Stournaras said Wednesday.

Greece on Friday announced better-than-expected GDP figures for 2020, with the country's Gross Domestic Product contracting by 8.2 pct to 168.5 billion euros from 183.6 billion in 2019.

Greece’s general government surplus reached 2.7 billion euros or 1.5 pct of GDP in 2019, based on the ESA 2010 system of national accounts, Eurostat said on Wednesday. The EU’s statistics agency in a report said that the general government’s debt was 331.1 billion euros or 176.6 pct of GDP at the end of 2019, from 334.723 billion or 181.2 pct of GDP in 2018, while the country’s Gross Domestic Product reached 187.456 billion euros, up from 184.714 billion in the previous year.