Tuesday, July 13, 2004

Demography and Religion in Iceland

A couple of links regarding the religious demographic structure of the Icelandic nation.

First an Excel-file from the government statistics office detailing the changes in numbers of Icelanders belonging to religious organisations between 1997 and 2002, which should give some indication on which religions are growing and which are in decline. All religious orgs are in the file so get ready for some pathetic numbers (in 2002 there were eleven people in Iceland in the First Baptist Church).

(Side-note: Don't you think it's lovely that the government collects and stores information like that about the citizens?)

Then, there is this doohickey. It's all in Icelandic, but it has two more years of information (1996 and 2003).