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Iceland — Population
Population, Total for Iceland, 1960–2025.
Latest value · 2025
392,404
Population, Total · people · +123.5% since 1960
Population for Iceland was 392,404 in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 66 years, from 1960 to 2025. The latest year is also the highest value on record for this series. The lowest was 175,574 in 1960 (about 2.2× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 1.24% per year.
Iceland ranks 176 of 217 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 81%. The median for Europe & Central Asia is 6.01 million, so Iceland sits below it. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 19%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
392,404
First (1960)
175,574
Change
+123.5%
Highest
392,404
in 2025
Lowest
175,574
in 1960
Average
268,558
Annual growth (CAGR)
1.24%
Years of data
66
Recent years
| Year | people |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 392,404 |
| 2024 | 386,506 |
| 2023 | 385,663 |
| 2022 | 382,003 |
| 2021 | 372,520 |
| 2020 | 366,463 |
| 2019 | 360,563 |
| 2018 | 352,721 |
| 2017 | 343,400 |
| 2016 | 335,439 |
| 2015 | 330,815 |
| 2014 | 327,386 |
Reading this correctly. Total population based on the de facto definition, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. Figures are in people. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
SP.POP.TOTL — Population, Total. Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.