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Iceland

In the early years of the 21st Century

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*** Extreme Weather ***

There has been an unusual number of extreme weather events in Iceland this winter. Severe storms with heavy snowfall have hit almost every week for the last two months.

The heat record for February in Iceland was almost smashed on Sunday (Feb 8th) when the temperature reached 17.4 C (63.3 F) at Dalatangi cape, Iceland’s easternmost point. The record is 18.1 C (64.6 F) from February 1998, also at Dalatangi. Tomorrow, however, the temperature at Dalatangi is expected to drop to -5 C (23 F). That is a swing of more than 22 C (72 F) in three days. – Iceland Magazine, 10 Feb 2015

*** ARCHIVES ***

The World Factbook - Iceland

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA

www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/ic.html

[accessed 29 December 2020]

World Factbook website has moved to ---> www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/iceland/

[accessed 5 January 2021]

Iceland's economy combines a capitalist structure and free-market principles with an extensive welfare system. Except for a brief period during the 2008 crisis, Iceland has in recent years achieved high growth, low unemployment, and a remarkably even distribution of income.

GDP - per capita (PPP): $52,200 (2017 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:

agriculture: 4.8%

industry: 22.2%

services: 73% (2008 est.)

Unemployment rate: 2.8% (2017 est.)

Population below poverty line: N/A

Maternal mortality rate: 4 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)

Infant mortality rate: total: 2.1 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth: total population: 83.3 years

Drinking water source: improved: total: 100% of population

Physicians density: 3.98 physicians/1,000 population (2017)

Sanitation facility access: improved: total: 100% of population

Electricity access: electrification - total population: 100% (2016)

The Borgen Project - Iceland

borgenproject.org/category/iceland/

[accessed 7 February 2021]

The Borgen Project works with U.S. leaders to utilize the United States’ platform behind efforts toward improving living conditions for the world’s poor.  It is an innovative, national campaign that is working to make poverty a focus of U.S. foreign policy.  It believes that leaders of the most powerful nation on earth should be doing more to address global poverty. From ending segregation to providing women with the right to vote, nearly every wrong ever righted in history was achieved through advocacy. The Borgen Project addresses the big picture, operating at the political level advancing policies and programs that improve living conditions for those living on less than $1 per day.

~ Combating Child Poverty In Iceland

borgenproject.org/combating-child-poverty-in-iceland/

~ Innovations In Poverty Eradication In Iceland

borgenproject.org/poverty-eradication-in-iceland/

~ Housing To Reduce Homelessness In Iceland

borgenproject.org/homelessness-in-iceland/

~ 10 Facts About Life Expectancy In Iceland

Https://Borgenproject.Org/10-Facts-About-Life-Expectancy-In-Iceland/

~ Top Ten Facts About Quality Of Life In Iceland

borgenproject.org/top-ten-facts-about-quality-of-life-in-iceland/

~ World Leader: Poverty Rate In Iceland Continuously Lowers

borgenproject.org/poverty-rate-in-iceland/

The World Bank in Iceland

www.worldbank.org/en/country/iceland/overview

[accessed 22 April 2021]

Iceland supports international efforts to promote human and economic development, reduce poverty, and boost shared prosperity around the world.

Looking back a few years

Advameg, Inc., Encyclopedia of the Nations

www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Europe/Iceland-ECONOMY.html

[accessed 29 December 2020]

Iceland's economy, once primarily agricultural, is now based overwhelmingly on fishing. Crop raising plays a small role, since most of the land is unsuitable for cultivation and the growing season is short. Sheep raising and dairying are the chief agricultural activities, with horse breeding also substantial. Iceland is generally self-sufficient in meat, eggs, and dairy products, but sugar and cereal products must be imported. Since Iceland has almost no known mineral resources and has had no concentrations of population until recent decades, industry is small-scale and local, depends heavily on imported raw and semimanufactured materials, and cannot compete favorably with foreign industry, especially with imports from low-income countries.

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