World population/Iceland
Europe
Population of Iceland
402,332
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#179
world rank
0.00%
of world population
+0.87%
yearly change
+3,514
people this year
4,346
births a year
2,681
deaths a year
How the figure for Iceland is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Iceland at 402,332 on 1 July 2026, and projects 405,846 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 Iceland at number 179 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 4,346 births and 2,681 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.
Other countries in Europe
Ranked by population.