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Faroe Islands

Against high income countries, Faroe Islands ranks 24th of 83 on environment and 51st of 80 on infrastructure. Each ranking counts only the countries that report that score, so the totals differ and the two ranks can’t be compared directly. Both compare Faroe Islands with countries of similar wealth. That is the only kind of ranking that tells you something a ranking by income does not already show.

How it has changed

Every measure Faroe Islands reports, over all the years it has been published. Pick one. Hover or use the arrow keys to read a year. Gaps in a line are years with no data. They are left open, not filled in.

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Scores by area

Each score averages the measures in one area, such as health. Each measure is first put on a common scale and turned so that higher is always better. Zero is the average country in an average year. One point is a typical gap between countries (a standard deviation), so +1 means about one typical gap above average. These are summaries, not measurements. See how the country scores are built and how the topic scores compare with each other.

ScoreValueRank, all countriesRank, similar incomeMostly income?
Infrastructure score 2022+1.3057 of 21051 of 80proxy +0.90
Environment score 2024+0.2964 of 21324 of 83moderate -0.33

The last column shows how closely each score just tracks national income. The number is its link with GDP per person (the value of everything a country produces, divided by its people), from −1 to +1. A score marked proxy is mostly a measure of how rich the country is. Its rank among all countries says little that GDP per person does not. That is why the rank among similar-income countries sits beside it.

The measures behind them

Every measure reported for Faroe Islands, grouped by area. Some measures have no agreed better direction, such as population growth, inflation and military spending. They are listed here but left out of every score, since there is no fair way to say which way is better. Some names use technical terms: PPP means adjusted for what money buys in each country, HDI is a United Nations score combining life expectancy, schooling and income, and a Gini indexmeasures how unequally income is shared. Each measure’s own page explains it.

culture

Women in a union52.3%% of women aged 15-492021no agreed direction
Marriage rate (UN)4.33marriages per 1,000 people2024no agreed direction
Divorce rate (UN)0.548divorces per 1,000 people2024no agreed direction

demography

Median age37.3years2023no agreed direction
Age at childbearing30.3years2023no agreed direction
Population54,900people2025no agreed direction
Population growth0.475%% per year2025no agreed direction
Urbanization39.6%% of population2025no agreed direction
Population 65+17.8%% of population2025no agreed direction
Population 0-1419.9%% of population2025no agreed direction
Fertility rate1.91births per woman2024no agreed direction
Birth rate10.8per 1,000 people2024no agreed direction
Net migration386people2025no agreed direction
Migrant share of population14.6%% of population2024no agreed direction

economy

GDP per capita (PPP)$72,114international $2024higher is better
GNI per capita (PPP)$70,786international $2021higher is better
GDP per capita (market)$59,302US$2024higher is better
GDP growth0.844%% per year2024no agreed direction
Trade openness106%% of GDP2024no agreed direction
Government consumption27.9%% of GDP2024no agreed direction

environment

CO2 per capita0.0384t CO2e per capita2024higher is worse
Forest area0.0584%% of land area2023higher is better
Agricultural land70.1%% of land area2023no agreed direction
Protected land2.4%% of land area2025higher is better

governance

Pre-trial detainee share63.6%% of prisoners2020higher is worse

health

Life expectancy83.1years2024higher is better
Basic water access100%% of population2024higher is better
Basic sanitation90.9%% of population2015higher is better
Adolescent fertility4.4births per 1,000 women aged 15-192024higher is worse

infrastructure

Internet users97.6%% of population2017higher is better
Mobile subscriptions106per 100 people2022higher is better
Electricity access100%% of population2024higher is better
Fixed broadband34.6per 100 people2022higher is better

Values are the most recent in 2010–2025, and different measures can come from different years. The year is shown beside each. Nothing here ranks countries by merit. An area score averages whatever measures its publishers happen to collect, and the choice of what to collect is itself a judgement made by someone else. All countries · How the country data works

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