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Iceland: Statistics

Economy
Budget Expenditures	$6.48 billion (2011 est.)
Budget revenues	$5.86 billion (2011 est.)
Debt - external	$124.50 billion (2011 )
Distribution Of Family Income - GINI Index	28% (2006 )
Electricity Consumption	15.98 billion kWh (2009 est.)
Electricity Exports	0 kWh (2010 est.)
Electricity Imports	0 kWh (2010 est.)
Electricity Production	16.77 billion kWh (2010 est.)
Exports	$5.34 billion (2011 est.)
GDP - purchasing power parity	$12.41 billion (2011 est.) Note: data are in 2011 US dollars
GDP - real growth rate	3.1% (2011 est.)
Imports	$4.51 billion (2011 est.)
Industrial production growth rate	3% (2011 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices)	4% (2011 est.)
Labor force	180 thousand (2011 est.)
Natural Gas Consumption	0 cu m (2010 est.)
Natural Gas Exports	0 cu m (2010 est.)
Natural Gas Imports	0 cu m (2010 est.)
Natural Gas Production	0 cu m (2010 est.)
Natural Gas Proved Reserves	0 cu m (2012 est.)
Oil Consumption	20.77 thousand bbl/day (2011 est.)
Oil Exports	1.209 thousand bbl/day (2009 est.)
Oil Imports	15.53 thousand bbl/day (2009 est.)
Oil Production	0 bbl/day (2010 est.)
Oil Proved Reserves	0 bbl (2012 est.)
Unemployment rate	7.4% (2011 est.)

People
HIV/AIDS - Adult Prevalence Rate	0.3% (2009 est.)
Infant mortality rate	3.18 deaths per 1,000 live births (2012 est.)
Population	313,183 (2012 est.)
Population growth rate	0.674% (2012 est.)
Total fertility rate	1.89 children per woman (2012 est.)
Ethnic Groups: homogeneous mixture of descendants of Norse and Celts 94%, population of foreign origin 6%
Nationality: noun: Icelander(s) adjective: Icelandic
Religions: Lutheran Church of Iceland 80.7%, Roman Catholic Church 2.5%, Reykjavik Free Church 2.4%, Hafnarfjorour Free Church 1.6%, other religions 3.6%, unaffiliated 3%, other or unspecified 6.2% (2006 est.)
Languages: Icelandic, English, Nordic languages, German widely spoken

Geography

Location:
Northern Europe, island between the Greenland Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of the United Kingdom

Area

Total:	103,000 sq. km
Land:	100,250 sq. km
Water:	2,750 sq. km

Coastline:

4,970 km

Climate:
temperate; moderated by North Atlantic Current; mild, windy winters; damp, cool summers

Terrain:
mostly plateau interspersed with mountain peaks, icefields; coast deeply indented by bays and fiords

Elevation Extremes

Lowest Point:	Atlantic Ocean 0 m
Highest Point:	Hvannadalshnukur 2,110 m (at Vatnajokull glacier)

Environment - International Agreements:
party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Kyoto Protocol, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Transboundary Air Pollution, Wetlands, Whaling signed, but not ratified: Environmental Modification, Marine Life Conservation

International Organization Participation:
Arctic Council, Australia Group, BIS, CBSS, CE, EAPC, EBRD, EFTA, FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NATO, NC, NEA, NIB, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, PCA, Schengen Convention, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UPU, WCO, WEU (associate), WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Technology
Airports	99 (2012 )
Cellular Telephones	344,100 (2011 )
Highways	12,869 (2009 )
Internet Hosts	369,969 (2012 )
Internet Users	301,600 (2009 )
Telephones	191,100 (2011 )

Sources:

CIA World Factbook

Iceland: Statistics

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