Population Statistics

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

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.)



Life expectancy at birth:

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)

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ic.html

Central Intelligence Agency. Central Intelligence Agency, n.d. Web. 26 Oct. 2015.