Population

Population development 2010

The population of Iceland was 318,452 1 January 2011, compared with 317,630 1 January 2010. Although increasing, the population growth of 0.3% was nevertheless historically low. This is due to negative net migration in 2010, just barely outweighed by the natural population growth (births less deaths). The population has nevertheless grown in the past five years by an annual average growth rate of 1.2%. [Corrected version 31 May 2011]

General publications

Staff papers

• The population statistics in Iceland. Analysis of population estimation methods of Statistics Iceland (Iceland)
  Paper by Ómar Harðarson presendet at the United Nations conference Joint UNECE/Eurostat Expert Group Meeting on Register-Based Censuses, The Hague, 10-11 May 2010
• Long-term and short term migration in Iceland. Analysis of estimation methods of Statistics Iceland

  Paper by Ómar Harðarson presendet at the United Nations conference Joint UNECE/Eurostat Expert Group Meeting on Register-Based Censuses, The Hague, 10-11 May 2010
• Census in Iceland 2011 
  Paper by Ómar Harðarson presented at the Nordic address meeting in Mývatn 10.-11. júní 2009