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The Inuit population makes up approximately 85–90% of the total (2009 est.). 6,792 people from Denmark live in Greenland, which is 12% of its total population. In recent years, Greenland experienced a significant increase in immigration from Asia, especially from the Philippines, Thailand, and China.
The Thule people are the ancestors of the current Greenlandic population. No genes from the Paleo-Inuit Dorset culture have been found in the present population of Greenland. [57] The Thule culture migrated eastward from what is now known as Alaska around 1000 AD, reaching Greenland around 1300.
This is the list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present.
Greenland is the world's largest island and an autonomous Danish dependent territory with self-government and its own parliament. ... Population: 57,000. Languages: Greenlandic, ...
This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, ... Data is current as of 2025. List ... Greenland : 0.14 0.36: 55,840: 410,450 158,480:
Greenland, which has a population of only 57,000 people spread across an area around three times the size of Texas, is an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark and can choose full ...
Nuuk (Godthåb) by night in April 2023, Greenland's capital and by far largest city. This is a list of cities and towns in Greenland as of 1 January 2024.The term 'city' is used loosely for any populated area in Greenland, given that the most populated place is Nuuk, the capital, with 19,900 inhabitants, amounting to about 35% of the total population. [1]
After home rule was secured, a bare majority (53%) of Greenland's population voted on 23 February 1982 to leave the EEC, a process which lasted until 1985. This resulted in the Greenland Treaty of 1985. [19] In 2008, Greenland's citizens approved the Greenlandic self-government referendum with a 75% vote in favor of a higher degree of autonomy ...