ACOG - Iceland  - IBM

Geography

Location: Northern Europe, island between the Greenland Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of the UK

Area:
total area: 103,000 sq km
land area: 100,250 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Kentucky

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 4,988 km


People

Population: 265,998 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 24% (female 31,482; male 32,912)
15-64 years: 65% (female 84,559; male 87,089)
65 years and over: 11% (female 16,554; male 13,402)

Population growth rate: 0.92% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 15.85 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 6.7 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 4 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 78.98 years
male: 76.69 years
female: 81.39 years

Total fertility rate: 2.06 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: homogeneous mixture of descendants of Norwegians and Celts

Religions: Evangelical Lutheran 96%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, none1% (1988)

Languages: Icelandic

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1976 est.)
total population: 100%
male:
female:


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Iceland
conventional short form: Iceland

Type: republic

Capital: Reykjavik

Independence: 17 June 1944 (from Denmark)

Constitution: 16 June 1944, effective 17 June 1944


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $4.5 billion

National product real growth rate: 2.4%

National product per capita: $17,250

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.3%

Unemployment rate: 7%

Electricity:
capacity: 1,070,000 kW
production: 4.7 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 16,458 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The volunteer staff of the 1996 Olympic Games totaled 50,152. They worked an estimated 850,000 shifts.