Population of Northeastern Region goes down by 4.3 percent since last year

Statistics Iceland has published the annual population number updates for January 1 of 2019. According to SI, the population of the northeastern region Þingeyjarsýsla has fallen from 5320 in 2018 to 5088 this year. This year’s number is though higher than all years prior to 2018 when looking at the population development of the last ten years.