Talk:Demographics of Iceland/Archive 1

Max Naylor 08:57, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Inuit Ancestry
Considering the interchange between the original settlers of Iceland with those of Greenland and the patterns of immigration between the two countries, what are the percentages of Inuit ancestry among the native Icelandic population? Relir 20:17, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm not aware of any particular patterns of immigration between the two countries, the contact between them has been very limited until the latest decades. According to the Icelandic statistics office, 53 people living in Iceland in 2006 were born in Greenland. --Bjarki 22:21, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
 * It's going to be very low. There was no known intermarriage between the Greenlanders and the Inuit population; Scandinavian DNA is not in evidence in the modern Greenlander population. --Sliderman 21:07, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually there was, if not intermarriage, interprocreating. I distinctly remember a study a few years ago, which said, that about 6% of South Greenlandic genes are Norse. I believe it was seen/heard on KNR. Mulder1982 (talk) 11:00, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Homogeneity
Here again, as in the article Icelanders, we find this claim about the relative homogeneity of the population of Iceland with reference to a recent mtDNA study. This study, while widely publicised, has also been criticised, as is natural, since it is at variance with all other studies on the same subject, i.e. the genetic profile of Icelanders (see e.g. ). --85.220.94.128 22:14, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Arts and Literature
I love "Iceland's Bell" as much as anyone, but what's this discussion of the arts and literature of Iceland doing in an article about its demographics? --Sliderman 21:08, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I've wondered the same; that's absolutely against the current practice, and the reader is unlikely to expect this subject here, too. I've taken the section out. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 13:32, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Map Update
The current map being used to show the level of immigration from various countries needs a serious update as it shows the countries that make up former Yugoslavia as one. I'd be willing to do this myself, but I'm not sure if all of those countries are at the same level.
 * -IkonicDeath —Preceding undated comment was added at 01:55, 12 October 2008 (UTC).

Blonde Percentage
Is there any information on how much of the population is Blonde? 71.179.28.31 (talk) 00:11, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Birth/Death chart off
The chart showing births/deaths in Iceland appears to be way off, showing a spike in the Icelandic death rate with a drop in the birth rate. These figures are not consistent with the Statistics Iceland data. For example, the deaths per 1,000 of population in 2011 was 6.2, not the high figure shown.

It is unclear what the source of the projections is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.222.180.7 (talk) 17:28, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

New data about residents from 2015
It's here at page 27. Dawid12373 (talk) 19:32, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

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