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Iceland

392,404

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+5.9K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+39.5%from 281.21K
Life expectancy82.8 years2024
Fertility rate1.56births per woman · 2024
Urban population94.2%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaHigh income

A country at every age

How Iceland 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 0–1417.5%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6466.5%Working-age population
Ages 65+16.0%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 rate11.2births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate6.8deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+4.4births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+2.71Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Iceland look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 432.99K in 2050—10.1% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 2024393.4K
  2. 2050432.99K
  3. 2100362.58K
Median age in 205044.9years
Births in 20503.73Kduring the year
Deaths in 20504.1Kduring the year
Life expectancy86.3years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 1960175.57K
  2. 1970204.44K
  3. 1980228.14K
  4. 1990254.83K
  5. 2000281.21K
  6. 2010318.04K
  7. 2020366.46K
  8. 2025392.4K
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/19/2026

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