🇫🇴Faroe Islands

Torshavn

Europe

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Population

54.9K

0.5%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

1.91

births/woman

Life Expectancy

83.1y

GDP / capita

$74.2K

Pop. Growth

0.47%

Net Migration

386

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Faroe Islands by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇩🇰Denmark4.9K(65.1%)

+48%

🇮🇸Iceland304(4.0%)

+9%

🇷🇴

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male28.3KTotal 54.9K26.6KFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Foreign-born population over time

Immigrant / diaspora population living in the country

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

Foreign-born share over time

Foreign-born residents as % of the population

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

🇵🇭Philippines253(3.3%)

+315%

🇳🇴Norway238(3.1%)

+38%

🇬🇱Greenland207(2.7%)

+45%

🇹🇭Thailand164(2.2%)

+128%

🇵🇱Poland153(2.0%)

+104%

🇬🇧United Kingdom146(1.9%)

+59%

🇸🇪Sweden99(1.3%)

+46%

🇮🇳India86(1.1%)

+48%

🇧🇬Bulgaria73(1.0%)

+508%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Faroe Islands diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Faroe Islands who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇩🇰Denmark10.6K(86.6%)

−1%

🇳🇴Norway885(7.2%)

+9%

🇮🇸Iceland494(4.0%)

+52%

🇬🇱Greenland269(2.2%)

+6%

🇱🇻Latvia1(0.0%)

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024