Faroe Islands
Faroe Islands in numbers — 13 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.
Faroe Islands recorded GDP per capita: 74,175 (2024), ranking 16 of 212 worldwide; Population: 54,900 (2025), ranking 202 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 83.1 (2024), ranking 20 of 217 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.
Measured across each series' full span, GDP shows the largest increase (+6893%) and Population growth the largest decrease (-62%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.
Across the measures below it sits below the world median on slightly more than half. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 4 of 13 comparable series are higher and 8 are lower.
Its population of 54,900 (2025) makes it one of the smallest populations in this dataset.
12 of 13 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later; the remaining 1 end earlier because the underlying collection is less frequent.
Indicators
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population | 54,900 | 2025 | +60.9% |
| Population growth | 0.47% | 2025 | -62.1% |
| Urban population | 39.64% | 2025 | +88.8% |
| GDP | 4,052,937,169.77 | 2024 | +6893.3% |
| GDP per capita | 74,175.28 | 2024 | +4552.0% |
| Life expectancy | 83.08 | 2024 | +15.2% |
| CO2 per capita | 0.04 | 2024 | +63.4% |
| Electricity access | 100% | 2024 | 0.0% |
| GDP (PPP) | 4,485,358,437.19 | 2024 | +124.5% |
| GDP per capita (PPP) | 82,089.28 | 2024 | +99.4% |
| Forest area | 0.06% | 2023 | +1.9% |
| GDP growth | 0.84% | 2024 | +118.5% |
| Internet users | 97.58% | 2017 | — |