Immigrants 8.4 percent of the population
From Iceland's capital city of Reykjavík. mbl.is/Sigurður Bogi
The total number of immigrants in Iceland were 27,447 in the beginning of the year 2014 according to fresh numbers from Statistics Iceland which amounts to 8.4 percent of the country's population.
"The proportion of immigrants is slightly larger than last year, when it was 8.1% of the population. The number of second generation immigrants rose from 3,204 in 2013 to 3,532 in 2014," the office says adding that the most numerous group of immigrants were people born in Poland or 36.9 percent of the total immigrant population. Other large immigrant groups are people born in Lithuania and in the Philippines.
Two-thirds of first and second generation immigrants were living in the the capital city of Reykjavík or nearby communities in the beginning of the year or 66.8 percent. "The highest proportion of immigrants is in the Westfjords where 13.2% of the population are first and second generation immigrants, while the lowest proportion is in the Northwest where only 4.5% of the population are immigrants or second generation immigrants.“
