Islam in Greenland: history and Muslim population data

History of Islam in Greenland

Is a north Arctic Island with area 2,166,086 sq km with more than four-fifth of which is covered by ice sheet throughout the year, and it is the largest island in the world (other than continents) and is a self-governing overseas administrative division of Denmark since 1979.

Yearly citizenship data of the population is provided by the Statistics Greenland since 1977. Table 5.2.3a shows the populations of citizens from Muslim majority countries since 1976. This data is constructed to estimate the Muslim population in Greenland. Accordingly, and as shown in Table 5.2.3b, the Muslim population in this island remains less than ten or 0.02% of the total population. These Muslims migrate temporarily from Denmark for work or educational training.

Thus, assuming that the percentage of Muslims will increase by 0.01 of a percentage point per decade; then the Muslim population is expected to remain less than fifty or 0.1% of the total population throughout this century.

Historical Muslim population dataset for Greenland

The figures below are from the CoMPS historical dataset. Population values are expressed in thousands; 2100 is a modelled projection, not a present-day count.

For the full time series and visualisation, use the interactive map above.