Iceland at a glance
Facts & Figures
- Inhabitants per km²: 3,1 Inhabitants (Germany: 229, UK: 261)
- Average age: 35,6 years (Germany: 45 years)
- Sheep & Horse: 77.000 horses, 470.000 sheeps (1,5 sheep per inhabitant)
- Earthquakes: 45 per day (most of them are very week)
- Telephone book: The Icelandic telephone book is sorted by first names!
- Belief in Elves: 8 % believe for sure, 16,5 % likely, 31 % possible, 21,5 % unlikely, 13,5% do not believe, Rest: no opinion
- Penismuseum: You can find 282 exhibits in the penis Museum of Iceland. Hamster: 2 mm, Pot whale: 1,7 m
- Area: 100.000 km² (UK: 243.600, USA: 9,8 Mio.)
- Coastline: 4.970 km
- Highest peak: 2.110 m (Vatnajökull Glacier)
- Glacier area: 11% of the total area
- Number of inhabitants: 335.000 (2016), 198.000 in Reykjavik, 93% urban population
- Religion: Evangelic 80,7 %, Catholic 2,5 %, Free Church Reykjavik 2,4%, others 14,4 %
- Life expectancy: 81 years (country comparison to the world: 19)
- GDP : $ 13 Billion (2015)
- GDP per capita: $ 39.900 (country comparison to the world: 28)
- GDP real growth rate: 4,0% (2015)
- GDP by sector of origin: 74 % service, 20 % industry, 6 % agriculture
- Unemployment rate: 4,0% (2015)
- Inflation rate: 1,6% (2015)
- Farm products: Potatoes, Vegetables, Sheep, Chicken, Pork, Cattle, Fish, Milk products
- Industry products: Fish processing, Aluminium melting, Ferrosilicon, geothermal power, water power, Tourism
- Export: $ 5 billion (2015). Fish, Fish products, Aluminium, Meat products, Ferrosilicon, diatomite
- Import: $ 4,4 billion (2015) Machinery, Oil Products, Food, Textile
- Electricity production: 16,7 billion kWh, installed power 2,6 GW, approx. 99 % renewable
- Streets: Total length 12.869 km, 4.500 km on asphalt, (Note: no trains)
- Expenditure for education: 7,4 % of GDP (country comparison to the world:14)
- Exchange rate: 1 $ = 100,4 ISK (Date: 30.01.18)
- Independency: From 1918 – 1944 Iceland was a sovereign state under the crown of Denmark. Iceland has been independent since 17.6.1944.
- Chief of state: Chief of state - Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson, Head of government: Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir (since 30 November 2017)
Source: CIA World Factbook (Date 30.10.2016), Geo Special, 4/2012.
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