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Greenland — statistics

All indicators in the section for Greenland — the latest available values with the year shown. Click an indicator to see the trend over time and the world rank.

141 indicators Region: Europe & Central Asia Subregion: Northern Europe Income group: High income ISO: GRL
Indicator Value Year Source
Population people 56,831 2025 UN DESA
Life expectancy at birth years 70.3 2024 UN DESA
Total fertility rate births 1.71 2024 UN DESA
Crude birth rate per 1,000 12 2024 UN DESA
Crude death rate per 1,000 9.3 2024 UN DESA
Population growth % -0.01 2025 UN DESA
Urban population share % 88.6 2025 UN DESA
Urban population people 50,337 2025 UN DESA
Rural population share % 11.4 2025 UN DESA
Population density per km² 0.1 2023 World Bank
Share of population aged 65 and over % 11.5 2025 UN DESA
Share of population under 15 % 20.7 2025 UN DESA
Age dependency ratio per 100 47.6 2025 UN DESA
Net migration people -265 2025 UN DESA
Share of women in the population % 47.49 2025 UN DESA
Male population people 29,844 2025 UN DESA
Female population people 26,987 2025 UN DESA
Children under 15 people 11,787 2025 UN DESA
Population aged 15–64 people 38,491 2025 UN DESA
Population aged 65 and over people 6,553 2025 UN DESA
Male life expectancy years 68.41 2024 UN DESA
Female life expectancy years 72.23 2024 UN DESA
Adolescent fertility rate per 1,000 35.1 2024 UN DESA
Rural population people 6,494 2025 UN DESA
Indicator Value Year Source
Number of immigrants people 5,812 2024 UN DESA
Share of immigrants in the population % 10.4 2024 UN DESA
Indicator Value Year Source
Physicians per 1,000 people per 1,000 1.14 1980 WHO
Hospital beds per 1,000 people per 1,000 14.35 1970 WHO
Indicator Value Year Source
Tuberculosis incidence per 100k 139 2024 WHO
Indicator Value Year Source
Adult mortality rate, male per 1,000 220.2 2024 UN DESA
Adult mortality rate, female per 1,000 152.1 2024 UN DESA
Indicator Value Year Source
Access to clean water % 100 2024 WHO
Access to basic sanitation % 62.5 2022 WHO
Obesity in adults % 28.1 2024 WHO
Overweight in adults % 60.4 2024 WHO
Underweight in adults % 2.7 2024 WHO
Safely managed sanitation % 0 2022 WHO
Indicator Value Year Source
Exchange rate to the US dollar per US$ 6.6218 2025 IMF
Indicator Value Year Source
Agricultural land share % 0.59 2023 FAO
Irrigated land % 0.08 2008 FAO
Agricultural land km² 2,431 2023 FAO
Indicator Value Year Source
Forest cover % 0 2023 FAO
Forest area km² 2 2023 FAO
Protected areas % 22.6 2025 World Bank
PM2.5 air pollution µg/m³ 1.6 2023 WHO
Land area km² 410,450 2023 FAO
Surface area km² 410,450 2023 FAO
Population below five meters above sea level % 59.86 2015 World Bank
Indicator Value Year Source
Renewables share of final energy consumption % 11.7 2022 World Bank
Primary energy consumption quad Btu 0.009 2024 EIA
Primary energy production quad Btu 0.002 2024 EIA
Coal production Mtoe 0 2024 EIA
Natural gas production bn m³ 0 2024 EIA
Oil production kb/d 0 2025 EIA
Indicator Value Year Source
Container port traffic TEU 6,145 2019 UNCTAD
Indicator Value Year Source
Internet users % 69.48 2017 ITU
Mobile cellular subscriptions per 100 118.6 2022 ITU
Fixed broadband internet per 100 31.98 2022 ITU
Fixed telephone lines per 100 8.92 2022 ITU
Secure internet servers per 1M 3,906 2024 World Bank
Number of mobile subscriptions subs 66,425 2022 ITU
Number of fixed broadband subscriptions subs 17,908 2022 ITU
Indicator Value Year Source
R&D expenditure (% of GDP) % 0.65 2004 UIS
Researchers per million people per 1M 702 2004 UIS
Scientific and technical journal articles articles 38 2023 UIS
Indicator Value Year Source
Intentional homicides per 100k 5.35 2016 World Bank
Number of intentional homicides people 3 2016 UNODC
Prison population per 100,000 per 100k 294 2024 UNODC
Capacity of prisons and detention facilities people 109 2024 UNODC

Values are given for the most recent year for which the source publishes data on this territory, so the years differ from indicator to indicator. Units of measurement are shown next to the indicator name.

Northern Europe