🇮🇸Iceland

Reykjavik

Europe

High income

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Population

392.4K

1.5%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

1.56

births/woman

Life Expectancy

82.8y

GDP / capita

$98.3K

Pop. Growth

1.51%

Net Migration

2.7K

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 Iceland by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇵🇱Poland31.9K(32.4%)

+216%

🇩🇰Denmark5.9K(6.0%)

+103%

🇱🇹

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

Male201.1KTotal 392.4K191.3KFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

1.3

per 100,000

Divorce rate

1.7

per 1,000 · 2020

Births outside marriage

69.0%

of births · 2020

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

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

🇺🇸United States3.9K(4.0%)

+112%

🇸🇪Sweden3.6K(3.6%)

+93%

🇵🇭Philippines3.4K(3.5%)

+145%

🇩🇪Germany3.2K(3.3%)

+91%

🇱🇻Latvia2.9K(3.0%)

+350%

🇬🇧United Kingdom2.8K(2.9%)

+157%

🇷🇴Romania2.5K(2.6%)

12×

🇹🇭Thailand2.3K(2.3%)

+113%

🇳🇴Norway2.1K(2.1%)

+113%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Iceland diaspora lives

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

🇩🇰Denmark8.9K(38.0%)

+6%

🇳🇴Norway8.7K(37.1%)

+79%

🇵🇱Poland2.5K(10.9%)

10×

🇧🇷Brazil556(2.4%)

+17%

🇱🇺Luxembourg477(2.0%)

+122%

🇦🇺Australia403(1.7%)

−43%

🇨🇱Chile354(1.5%)

+327%

🇫🇴Faroe Islands304(1.3%)

+9%

🇫🇮Finland211(0.9%)

+47%

🇿🇦South Africa189(0.8%)

−47%

🇭🇺Hungary175(0.8%)

+35%

🇬🇱Greenland157(0.7%)

+65%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Abortion rate over time

Induced abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–49

Source: WHO / Guttmacher (compiled)