Iceland

Facts

Population:  277,906 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:  0-14 years:  23.18% (male 33,238; female 31,191) 15-64 years:  65.01% (male 91,095; female 89,583) 65 years and over:  11.81% (male 14,681; female 18,118) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:  0.54% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:  14.62 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:  6.89 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:  -2.28 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:  at birth:  1.08 male(s)/female under 15 years:  1.07 male(s)/female 15-64 years:  1.02 male(s)/female 65 years and over:  0.81 male(s)/female total population:  1 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:  3.56 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:  total population:  79.52 years male:  77.31 years female:  81.92 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:  2.01 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:  0.14% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:  200 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:  less than 100 (1999 est.)
Nationality:  noun:  Icelander(s) adjective:  Icelandic
Ethnic groups:  homogeneous mixture of descendants of Norse and Celts
Religions:  Evangelical Lutheran 93%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic, none (1997)
Languages:  Icelandic
Literacy:  definition:  age 15 and over can read and write total population:  99.9% (1997 est.) male:  NA% female:  NA%
GDP:  purchasing power parity - $6.85 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:  4.3% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:  purchasing power parity - $24,800 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:  agriculture:  15% (includes fishing 13%) industry:  21% services:  64% (1999 est.)
Population below poverty line:  NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:  lowest 10%:  NA% highest 10%:  NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices):  3.5% (2000 est.)
Labor force:  159,000 (2000)
Labor force - by occupation:  agriculture 5.1%, fishing and fish processing 11.8%, manufacturing 12.9%, construction 10.7%, other services 59.5% (1999)
Unemployment rate:  2.7% (January 2001)
Budget:  revenues:  $3.5 billion expenditures:  $3.3 billion, including capital expenditures of $467 million (1999)
Industries:  fish processing; aluminum smelting, ferrosilicon production, geothermal power; tourism
Industrial production growth rate:  1.5% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:  7.069 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:  fossil fuel:  0.07% hydro:  84.64% nuclear:  0% other:  15.29% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:  6.574 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:  0 kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:  0 kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:  potatoes, turnips; cattle, sheep; fish
Exports:  $2 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Exports - commodities:  fish and fish products 70%, animal products, aluminum, diatomite, ferrosilicon
Exports - partners:  EU 64% (UK 20%, Germany 13%, France 5%, Denmark 5%), US 15%, Japan 5% (1999)
Imports:  $2.2 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Imports - commodities:  machinery and equipment, petroleum products; foodstuffs, textiles
Imports - partners:  EU 56% (Germany 12%, UK 9%, Denmark 8%, Sweden 6%), US 11%, Norway 10% (1999)
Debt - external:  $2.6 billion (1999) Economic aid - donor: $NA
Currency:  Icelandic krona (ISK)
Currency code:  ISK
Exchange rates:  Icelandic kronur per US dollar - 84.810 (January 2001), 78.676 (2000), 72.335 (1999), 70.958 (1998), 70.904 (1997), 66.500 (1996)
Fiscal year:  calendar year

Statistics: CIA World Factbook.

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