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Greenland

56,831

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-52024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+1.1%from 56.19K
Life expectancy70.3 years2024
Fertility rate1.71births per woman · 2024
Urban population88.6%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaHigh income

A country at every age

How Greenland 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 0–1420.7%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6467.7%Working-age population
Ages 65+11.5%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 rate12.0births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate9.3deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+2.7births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-265net people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Greenland look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 49.9K in 2050—10.6% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202455.84K
  2. 205049.9K
  3. 210037.23K
Median age in 205039.6years
Births in 2050580during the year
Deaths in 2050759during the year
Life expectancy73.4years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 196032.5K
  2. 197046.4K
  3. 198050.2K
  4. 199055.6K
  5. 200056.19K
  6. 201056.53K
  7. 202056.37K
  8. 202556.83K
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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