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Faroe Islands

54,900

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+2602024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+20.0%from 45.75K
Life expectancy83.1 years2024
Fertility rate1.91births per woman · 2024
Urban population39.6%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaHigh income

A country at every age

How Faroe Islands is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1419.9%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6462.3%Working-age population
Ages 65+17.8%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate10.8births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate8.2deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+2.6births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+386net people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Faroe Islands look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 63.04K in 2050—13.8% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202455.4K
  2. 205063.04K
  3. 210063.25K
Median age in 205040.2years
Births in 2050736during the year
Deaths in 2050591during the year
Life expectancy85.0years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196034.13K
  2. 197038.27K
  3. 198043.07K
  4. 199047.74K
  5. 200045.75K
  6. 201048.66K
  7. 202052.56K
  8. 202554.9K
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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