Faroe Islands vs Iceland

Faroe Islands and Iceland 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.

• Iceland has about 7.1 times as many people as Faroe Islands: 392,404 against 54,900 in 2025.
• GDP per person in Iceland ($98,323 in 2025) is 33% higher than in Faroe Islands ($74,175 in 2024).
• The economy grew faster in Iceland (1.3% in 2025) than in Faroe Islands (0.8% in 2024), a difference of 0.5 percentage points.
• Life expectancy at birth is about the same in Faroe Islands (83.1 years) and Iceland (82.8 years) in 2024.
• The population of Faroe Islands is older: half of its people are over 37.3 years, against 35.8 years in Iceland in 2023.
• A larger share of people used the internet in Iceland (98.2% in 2024) than in Faroe Islands (97.6% in 2017), a difference of 0.6 percentage points.
• CO2 emissions per person in Iceland (8.5 tonnes) are about 213 times as high as in Faroe Islands (0.04 tonnes) in 2024.
• Forest covers a larger share of the land in Iceland (0.6%) than in Faroe Islands (0.1%), a difference of 0.5 percentage points in 2024.