Faroe Islands vs Greenland

Faroe Islands and Greenland compared on 8 key figures from official sources. Each value is the latest one published for that country, so the year is shown with it.

• Faroe Islands and Greenland have about the same number of people: 54,900 and 56,831 in 2025.
• GDP per person in Faroe Islands ($74,175 in 2024) is 27% higher than in Greenland ($58,499 in 2023).
• The economy grew faster in Greenland (0.9% in 2023) than in Faroe Islands (0.8% in 2024), a difference of 0.1 percentage points.
• A baby born in Faroe Islands can expect to live 12.8 years longer than one born in Greenland: 83.1 years against 70.3 years in 2024.
• The population of Faroe Islands is older: half of its people are over 37.3 years, against 34.2 years in Greenland in 2023.
• A larger share of people used the internet in Faroe Islands (97.6%) than in Greenland (69.5%), a difference of 28.1 percentage points in 2017.
• CO2 emissions per person in Greenland (10.5 tonnes) are about 263 times as high as in Faroe Islands (0.04 tonnes) in 2024.
• Forest covers a larger share of the land in Faroe Islands (0.1%) than in Greenland (0%), a difference of 0.1 percentage points in 2024.