The number is approaching 81 thousand

More than 80,500 foreign citizens were registered as residents of Iceland on December 1, according to the National Register of Iceland. This means that about a fifth of the population is of foreign origin.

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Nationals have become 388,790

The number of foreign citizens has increased steadily since 2018. The relative increase is particularly large after the pandemic ended in 2021, when international flights resumed. Thousands of Ukrainians also arrived here after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. The number of Ukrainians in Iceland has since increased year by year, reaching 4,834 on December 1.