Greenland
Constituent / territory of Denmark.
population: Natl quarterly est (1 Jan 2026) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 1 metros tracked
🗺️ Geography1 metro
Greenland metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.
Hover for rank, click to open the metro page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.
🗂️ Municipalities
5 entries listed under Greenland. Click any to see its metros and footprint.
📋 At a glance
- Official language
- Greenlandic
- Currency
- Danish krone (kr)
- Government
- Parliamentary monarchy
- Legislature
- Inatsisartut
- Demonym
- Greenlandic
- Time zones
- UTC±00:00, UTC−01:00, UTC−02:00, UTC−03:00 +1 more
- Driving side
- Right
- Calling code
- +299
- Internet TLD
- .gl
- ISO 3166
- GL
- Highest point
- Gunnbjørn Fjeld (3,694 m (12,119 ft))
- National anthem
- Nuna asiilasooq
Facts via Wikidata.
💹 Economy and developmentHigh income
Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.
👥 Population over time
Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Greenland is past its peak, which is less unusual than it sounds: the two lines here can point in opposite directions, and for most of Europe and East Asia they now both point down.
👥 To 2100
The UN’s probabilistic projection for Greenland: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.
Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.
What drives it
Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.
Show all 16 decades
Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.
🏆 National Teams
Greenland on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.