Iceland is located in Northern Europe. It is an island between the Greenland Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of the United Kingdom.
Geographic Coordinates: 65 00 N, 18 00 W
Ethnic Groups: homogeneous mixture of descendants of Norse and Celts 94%, population of foreign origin 6%
Religions: Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland (official) 73.8%, Roman Catholic 3.6%, Reykjavik Free Church 2.9%, Hafnarfjorour Free Church 2%, The Independent Congregation 1%, other religions 3.9% (includes Pentecostal and Asatru Association), none 5.6%, other or unspecified 7.2% (2015 est.)
Population total:331,918 (July 2015 est.)
Population by age group:
0-14 years: 20.43% (male 34,653/female 33,161)
15-24 years: 14.03% (male 23,661/female 22,914)
25-54 years: 40.09% (male 67,183/female 65,871)
55-64 years: 11.67% (male 19,502/female 19,230)
65 years and over: 13.78% (male 21,344/female 24,399) (2015 est.)
Median age:
total: 36 years
male: 35.4 years
female: 36.7 years (2015 est.)
Population growth rate: 1.21% (2015 est.)
Birth rate: 13.91 births/1,000 population (2015 est.)
Death rate: 6.28 deaths/1,000 population (2015 est.)
Urbanization:
urban population: 94.1% of total population (2015)
rate of urbanization: 1.25% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
Major urban area:
REYKJAVIK (capital) 184,000 (2014
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| Reykjavik (capital)
Infant mortality rate:
total: 2.06 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 2.2 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 1.91 deaths/1,000 live births (2015 est.)
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total population: 82.97 years
male: 80.81 years
female: 85.22 years (2015 est.)
Total fertility rate:
2.02 children born/woman (2015 est.)
Health expenditures:
9.1% of GDP (2013)
Physicians density:
3.48 physicians/1,000 population (2012)
Obesity rate:
23.9% (2014)
Central Intelligence Agency. Central Intelligence Agency, n.d. Web. 26 Oct. 2015.
