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Greenland People

by Vishal Kumar

Greenland is the largest island in the world.The indigenous peoples of Greenland are Inuit and make up a majority of the Greenlandic population. Greenlanders are famously friendly people and very peaceful.


Greenland is the largest island in the world. Greenland People are very peaceful. The Greenland People are very few in number. The languages of Greenland People are Greenlandic, Danish, and English.

The Greenlanders are Inuit or Eskimo. Evangelical Lutheran is the religion of the People of Greenland. Among the ethnic groups of Greenland 88% people are Greenlanders and 12% of the Greenland People are Danish and others. Hunting and fishing are the chief livelihoods of Greenland People. More than 90% of the People in Greenland reside on the west coast of Greenland.

In the year 2001, the population of Greenland was 56,352. The population growth rate of Greenland People was 0.06% in 2001. Among the 1,000 population of Greenland 16.52 was the birth rate and 7.58 was the death rate of the Greenland People in 2001. 2.44% of children were born in Greenland in 2001. In the year 1999 among the Greenland People 100 people were suffering from HIV/AIDS.

The current population of Greenland is expected to be 56,980.

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