Internal migrations
In Greenland internal migration has a significant impact on the regional population size, sex and age distribution. The impact is much greater than the effect of births and deaths and it affects the composition of the population both the locality of migration and the one of removal.
21,698 domestic movements were recorded in 2012. Most movements were within the same locality.
Sumary table 7.1. Internal migrations
|
|
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
|
Total |
17.416 |
18.232 |
18.739 |
20.413 |
20.781 |
21.766 |
20.639 |
21.066 |
22.313 |
21.941 |
21.698 |
|
same town |
10.280 |
10.781 |
11.217 |
12.250 |
12.490 |
13.130 |
12.044 |
12.644 |
13.755 |
13.200 |
13.129 |
|
same settlement |
945 |
1.185 |
962 |
1.294 |
1.271 |
1.299 |
1.254 |
1.112 |
1.215 |
1.316 |
1.191 |
|
between towns |
3.756 |
3.882 |
4.153 |
4.361 |
4.428 |
4.561 |
4.437 |
4.548 |
4.553 |
4.507 |
4.440 |
|
between settlem. |
291 |
306 |
286 |
279 |
302 |
312 |
406 |
337 |
346 |
370 |
418 |
|
from settl. to town |
1.158 |
1.099 |
1.090 |
1.115 |
1.240 |
1.367 |
1.321 |
1.266 |
1.325 |
1.392 |
1.359 |
|
from town to settl. |
914 |
878 |
950 |
1.047 |
999 |
1.041 |
1.055 |
1.096 |
1.070 |
1.124 |
1.079 |
|
Others |
72 |
101 |
81 |
67 |
51 |
56 |
122 |
63 |
49 |
32 |
82 |
Source: Statistics Greenland, http://bank.stat.gl/beebaf2b