Population in the new municipalities

Greenland's 2nd most populous municipality Qaasuitsup Kommunia will be divided as of January 1st 2018 into 2 municipalities respectively Kommune Qeqertalik and Avannaata Kommunia. Avannaata Kommunia will then be Greenland's 2nd most populous municipality, while the Kommune Qeqertalik will be the smallest.

 

StatBank Greenland now has a table (http://bank.stat.gl/beest2a), where the new municipalities have been calculated for the period 1977-2017. All other tables will reflect the new division in future releases.

 

The new municipalities have received official authority codes, 959 for Kommune Qeqertalik and 960 for Avannaata Kommunia cf. the CPR newsletter of 4 September (https://www.cpr.dk/cpr-nyt/nyhedsarkiv/2017/sep)

 

These codes will be reused in the StatBank's tables and users of the StatBank API and 'saved tables' may need to adjust ‘saved queries’ in order to get the new municipalities in datasets.

 

Summary 1. Population in 2018-municipalities by January 1st  2017

 

Men

Women

Total

Greenland

     29.493

       26.367

   55.860

Kommune Kujalleq

       3.525

         3.167

     6.692

Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq

     11.952

       10.721

   22.673

Qeqqata Kommunia

       4.936

         4.303

     9.239

Kommune Qeqertalik

       3.400

         3.100

     6.500

Avannaata Kommunia

       5.595

         5.052

   10.647

Udenfor kommunerne

             85

               24

         109

Figures in Statbank http://bank.stat.gl/beest2a