To be honest, I was always amazed by the news made on the Icelandic media regarding anything about Iceland population. As the earlier post in which I used three maps to show you what the population in recent years looked like, the entire population was not a big number compared to most counties in the world. It felt more so from the perspective of a Chinese person. Any notable annual population increase in Iceland would be on a scale of four digits in which the first digit usually equals to one. Evidently, if one municipality outgrows another one by number of population, the number will be small but relatively impressive.
Like the one made on national news today: the population of Reykjanesbaer outgrows Akureyri by 40 more people counting from 1st December of last year to this year’s February 1st, making Reykjanesbaer the forth populous municipality in Iceland by number of population (by population density it stands too). Akureyri used to be the forth in this category.
The driven factor for this outgrowth is due to the increase of foreign citizens, as the charts show below.
By population density, Reykjanesbaer is more populated than Akureyri as the map shows below.
