Country profile · IS
Iceland
2 NUTS-3 regions · aggregated from free, no-auth EU public data. Browse all regions →
Population
389.4k
GDP
—
GDP per capita
—
Population density
4 /km²
Unemployment
4.5%
pop-weighted
Employment
85.8%
pop-weighted
Area
102,596.9 km²
NUTS-3 regions
2
Country indicators · 47 metrics (sums & pop-weighted averages)
Labour market
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
88.1%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
9.5%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
20.7
country total
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
65 /M
pop-weighted avg
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
2.5%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
5.6%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
46.1%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
44.8%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
27.3%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
25.7%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
10.2%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
98.4%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
9.5m
country total
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
639 /1k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
1.2k
country total
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
306.1
pop-weighted avg
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
63.4
pop-weighted avg
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
2
country total
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
258k
country total
Population aged 65+
61.8k
country total
Population aged under 15
69.7k
country total
Median age of population
37.4 yrs
pop-weighted avg
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
23.9%
pop-weighted avg
Crude rate of total population change
15.2 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
10.8 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude birth rate
11.1 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude death rate
6.7 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Live births
4.3k
country total
Deaths
2.6k
country total
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
51.0%
pop-weighted avg
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.57
pop-weighted avg
Population density (persons per km²)
153 /km²
pop-weighted avg
Social
Life expectancy at birth
82.8 yrs
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
828 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
224 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.8 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
28.5 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
306 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
1,006 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
24 /M
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
339 m
pop-weighted avg
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
187 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
12 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
9
pop-weighted avg
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
7.3
pop-weighted avg
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
27.6
pop-weighted avg
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