Publication of a news release on museums and related activities 2021, which was scheduled today Wednesday 13 September, has been postponed until further notice.

Operating revenues in cultural and creative industries were 126 billion ISK in 2021, increasing by 5.6% from 2020 (numbers are adjusted for inflation). The operating revenues were highest for film and TV, or 22% of the total amount.

The number of guests at museums, exhibitions and related activities decreased by 45% between 2019 and 2020. The number decreased most for history museums, by 54%, and art museums, by 47%. The number of guests at nature museums decreased by 29% and by 21% at zoos.

The number of performance in theatres and/or by professional and amateur theatre groups increased by 10.4% between 2015-2019 but decreased by 41.7% between the theatre seasons 2018-2019 and 2019-2020. The number of performances amounted to 1,195 for the 2019-2020 season, a record low since the year 2000, when information was first collected.

In 2021, 7.5% of total employment was in cultural employment, according to the Icelandic Labour Force Surve (IS-LFS). The ratio increased slightly from 2020 when it was 7.1%.

There were 44,031 students at levels above compulsory education in Iceland in the autumn of 2022, a decrease of 2,090 students from the previous year, or 4.5%. There were fewer students both at the upper secondary and tertiary levels of education, in all regions and all age groups between 16 and 29 years old.

In December 2022 there were 1,581 licenced pre-primary school teachers in pre-primary schools in Iceland. In addition, there were 210 other licenced teachers in pre-primary schools. In total, licenced teachers were 26.6% of staff working in education and child-care in December 2022, a slightly lower share than in the previous year.

Almost 63% of new entrants at the upper secondary level of education in 2017 had graduated in 2021. The completion rate, i.e. the proportion of new entrants who have graduated, has never been higher since Statistics Iceland began publishing data on new entrants in 1995.

Publication of a news release on students in upper secondary schools and universities, which was scheduled Wednesday 9 August, has been postponed until Tuesday 12th of September.

In December 2022 there were almost 20 thousand children attending pre-primary schools in Iceland, an increase of 635 (3.3%) from the previous year. One out of four children have a foreign background.

In total, around 229,300 individuals were employed in the Icelandic labour market in July 2023 according to register-based data. The number of employed individuals increased by around 7,900 between years, which corresponds to a 3.6% increase. The number of employed immigrants was approximately 51,700 in July and increased by nearly 6,900 between years. Figures have […]

In total, 7,600 individuals were unemployed in July 2023 according to seasonally adjusted results from the Icelandic Labour Force Survey. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 3.3% in July, the employment rate 77.8% and the activity rate 80.5%. The unemployment rate increased by 0.7 percentage points between months while the employment rate decreased by 1.1 […]

The main results of the Labour Force Survey for the second quarter of 2023 are that the Icelandic labour market shows little change from the previous year. The proportion of the population aged 16-74 years in the labour market (activity rate), was 81.9% in the second quarter of 2023, which is little higher than it […]

In total, around 225,700 individuals were employed in the Icelandic labour market in June 2023 according to register-based data. The number of employed individuals has increased by around 7,400 between years, which corresponds to a 3.4% increase. The number of employed individuals with their main job in the tourism industry was just over 31.200 in […]

In total, 6,230 jobs were vacant in the Icelandic labour market in the second quarter of 2023 according to Statistics Iceland’s Job Vacancy Survey. At the same time, the number of occupied jobs was around 240,300 and the job vacancy rate therefore 2.5%.