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Six Homicides Reported As Of This Year
As of June 2025, six homicides have been reported in five separate police cases. In 2024, homicides reached a record number of eight, RÚV reports. With the latest reports of a double homicide at the Reykjavík Edition Hotel on the morning of…
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Immigrants Now Make Up 18.2% Of Iceland’s Population
As of January 1, 2024, immigrants made up 18.2% of Iceland’s population, totaling 69,691 individuals, reports Statistics Iceland. This marks a steady rise from the previous year, when immigrants constituted 16.7% of the population (62,821). Over the past decade, the proportion of…
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Drug And Pharmaceutical-Related Fatalities Reach An All-Time High
If you or someone you know has been dealing with suicidal ideation, or you have lost someone to suicide, you can contact Píeta Samtökin for counselling at 552-2218. You can also call the Red Cross Helpline at 1717. If you are in…
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Statistics Iceland Publishes Latest Census Data
A quarterly census published by Statistics Iceland shows that Iceland’s population increased by 2.230 in the second quarter of 2024. According to the Oct. 4 report, 1.090 children were born in the country and 640 people died. 5.460 individuals moved to Iceland…
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Icelandic Population Has Increased
There are now around 385,230 people living in Iceland, including 198,280 men, 186,840 women and 120 transgender/other. This is stated in a new announcement from Statistics Iceland, reports Fréttablaðið. [su_pullquote]We have opened the Christmas Vault: get your gifts here! Icelandic Yule Lads,…
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Police Release 2018-2020 Crime Statistics
The National Commissioner of Police found the number of rapes decreased in 2018-2020, but the number of sexual offenses against children increased during this time, likely reflecting the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. [su_pullquote]The new Reykjavík Grapevine print issue is out! Subscribe to it…
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More People Died In Iceland In The First Quarter Of 2022 Than Last Year
In the first four months of 2022, 760 people died in Iceland, RÚV reports. In 2021, this figure was smaller—with 610 deaths during the first quarter of the year. [su_pullquote]Are you going to Iceland in the near future? Check out all the…
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COVID Roundup: 35 Domestic Cases Yesterday, 20 Outside Quarantine
35 new domestic cases of the coronavirus were detected yesterday, according to the latest data from covid.is. Of those, 15 were quarantined at the time of diagnosis. 7 people are currently hospitalised with the virus, with 3 in intensive care. 337 people…
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Nah Baby, Iceland’s Fertility Rate At All Time Low
Iceland’s fertility rate is at an all time low, reports Statistics Iceland. The most common measure of national fertility is the number of live-births in the life of each woman. In order to maintain long-term population stability that number should be around…
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Number Of Women In Corporate Leadership Positions On The Rise
A third of managers, chairs and members of Board of Directors at Icelandic enterprises with 50 or more employees were women at the end of 2014, according to Statistics Iceland. This is an increase of 0,4 % since 2013 and 12,8 % since…
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What Happens When Journalists Take Their Summer Vacation?
The SIC Report reveals that roughly 80% of news stories covering the three largest banks in the two years leading up to the crash were neutral rather than positive or negative. The newspapers deserve some applause for that. But, it’s sometimes said…
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Does Money Make The Independence Party Go Around?
For some reason, support for the Independence Party has been on the rise ever since they purportedly brought about Iceland’s downfall. To figure out why, we decided to follow the money. Here you have people’s general economic outlook graphed along side support…
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Gender Rule Statistics
The chart above demonstrates changes between years for ministers in the Icelandic government by gender. As you can see, the late seventies was the age of man. But since 1980, the gender difference is gradually decreasing. Albeit, yes … gradually. Very gradually.…
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CSI: Reykjavík
Our stats this issue may be grim, but there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation. The murder of Hafnarfjörður resident Hannes Helgason on August 15 has put the topic in everyone’s brain, particularly for its unusual circumstances in this country. In an interview with…
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Getting The Old Snippity-Snip!
Despite how it may sometimes seem, what with all the pregnant ladies and guys who can’t even spell the word condom, not everyone in Iceland wants to procreate. In this issue we present you with a graph of those who have gone…
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Tourists, Where You At?
Alright, so this issue’s graph is pretty alarming. What you are looking at here is the number of people staying in hotels in Iceland from 1997 until 2010. The number of Icelandic guests has remained fairly consistent over the years, what with…
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The Protected Iceland
We are loving the maths and indisputable facts these days, so once again we have some wicked ass stats from our buddies over at DataMarket. This time around we have a nice graphic of the area of Icelandic nature that is protected.…
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Sheep Ahoy!
So it turns out the old adage is true: there are more sheep than people in Iceland. Just check out the graph below. There are some interesting anomalies to note in the graph however. Most prominently, the sudden plummet of the number…
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The National Church: Not So Popular
Heads up clergymen: it seems that Icelanders aren’t too keen on being Christian these days. Registration in the National Church of Iceland is dropping, according to recent polls. The latest numbers from DataMarket show that the number of people registering as having…