Share of foreign citizens in Iceland 2002-2022

The share of foreign citizens increased significantly in recent years; in 2002, the share was only 3.4 percent. It then increased until 2009, before falling slightly after the financial crisis hit Iceland's economy hard. However, it increased from seven percent in 2014 to nearly 15 in 2022, meaning that the share of foreign citizens in Iceland doubled over the last eight years. In 2022, the biggest share of foreign citizens migrating to Iceland came from Poland.