World population/Faroe Islands
Europe
Population of Faroe Islands
56,554
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#209
world rank
0.00%
of world population
+0.85%
yearly change
+480
people this year
726
births a year
536
deaths a year
How the figure for Faroe Islands is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Faroe Islands at 56,554 on 1 July 2026, and projects 57,034 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places Faroe Islands at number 209 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.00 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 50 entries in Europe.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 726 births and 536 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
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