Preface

The Statistical Yearbook of Iceland is a key publication of Icelandic official statistics and is intended to give an overview of statistical information of the Icelandic economy and society. The Yearbook serves as statistical reference work in a number of economic and social fields. It is also intended as a guide to statistical sources. The Statistical Yearbook 2009 is divided into 23 chapters and contains 344 tables and 44 charts. The book contains an alphabetical subject index in English as well as in Icelandic.

In preparing this publication, Statistics Iceland has enlisted the help of many institutions and individuals as well as drawing extensively on the resources of its own staff. For all this assistance and work provided I would like to express my appreciation.

For Statistics Iceland, Svava Guðjónsdóttir has served as an editor of the Yearbook and the layout has been in the hands of Brynjólfur Ólason.

Statistics Iceland in October 2009
Ólafur Hjálmarsson, Director-General