🇬🇱 Greenland Demographics - Population, Culture & Society

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🇬🇱 Greenland GL / GRL #198

Nomad Score 40.0

Cities 5

Region Nordic Countries, Arctic Circle, North America, Americas, North America

Currency DKK

📊 KEY DEMOGRAPHICS

Population 56.8K

Density 0.0/km²

HDI 0.852 (Very High)

Life Expectancy (2024) 70.3 yrs

Fertility Rate (2024) 1.71

Urban Population (2024) 88.3%

Sources: REST Countries v4, World Bank, OWID

🗣 LANGUAGES & CULTURE

Languages

Language	Native Name
Greenlandic	kalaallisut

Religions

Religion	Percentage
Christianity	96.1%
No religion	2.5%
Other	1.4%

Ethnicities

Ethnicity	Percentage
Greenlandic inuit	89.5%
Danish	7.5%
Nordic	1.1%
Others	1.9%

Demonym (male) Greenlandic

Demonym (female) Greenlandic

National Anthem Nuna asiilasooq

📈 POPULATION STRUCTURE

Age Group	Distribution	Share
0-14 Youth		20.8%
15-64 Working		68.4%
65+ Elderly		10.8%

Dependency Ratio 46.2%

Profile Mature

Urban Pop. (2024) 88.3%

Birth Rate (2024) 12.0 /1000

Death Rate (2024) 9.3 /1000

Fertility Rate (2024) 1.71

Source: World Bank

🏥 HEALTHCARE

Life Expectancy (2024) 70.3 yrs

Source: World Bank, WHO

🎓 EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY

Internet Users (2017) 69.5%

Mobile Subscriptions (2022) 118.6/100

Broadband (2022) 32.0/100

Secure Servers (2024) 3,906/1M

Source: World Bank, OWID

🌐 BROADBAND CONNECTIVITY

Broadband per 100 (2022) 32.0

Source: ITU / World Bank via OWID. Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people.

🌍 GEOGRAPHY & PRACTICAL

Area 2,166,086 km²

Capital Nuuk 📍

Continent North America

Region Americas

Subregion North America

Landlocked No

Driving Side Right

Timezones UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-01:00, UTC+00:00

Calling Codes +299

Postal Code ####

TLD .gl

Maps Google Maps | OpenStreetMap

🏅 NATIONAL SYMBOLS

Flag The flag of Greenland has two equal horizontal bands of white and red, with a large disk slightly to the hoist side of center. The top half of the disk is red, and the bottom half is white.