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Greenland in numbers — 13 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.

Capital: Nuuk · Region: Europe & Central Asia · Income group: High income

Greenland recorded GDP per capita: 58,499 (2023), ranking 26 of 212 worldwide; Population: 56,831 (2025), ranking 201 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 70.3 (2024), ranking 152 of 217 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.

Measured across each series' full span, CO2 per capita shows the largest increase (+60527%) and Population growth the largest decrease (-100%). 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 56,831 (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

IndicatorLatestYearChange
Population56,8312025+74.9%
Population growth-0.01%2025-100.2%
Urban population88.57%2025+52.1%
Life expectancy70.272024+20.0%
CO2 per capita10.452024+60526.7%
Electricity access100%20240.0%
GDP3,326,543,974.392023+4685.0%
GDP per capita58,498.972023+3804.4%
GDP growth0.87%2023-93.4%
GDP (PPP)4,486,965,813.172023+294.2%
GDP per capita (PPP)78,905.582023+285.4%
Forest area0%2023-16.7%
Internet users69.48%2017
Source. World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0). Latest data revision: 2026-09-13. Country page on data.worldbank.org.