Editing Demographics of Iceland (section)

==== Emigration ====
Large numbers of Icelanders began to emigrate from Iceland in the 1850s. It has been estimated that 17,000 Icelanders migrated to [[North America]] in the period 1870–1914, and that 2,000 of them moved back to Iceland; this net loss, 15,000, was about 20% of the Icelandic population in 1887.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=History of Iceland|last=Karlsson|first=Gunnar|year=2000|page=236}}</ref> According to historian Gunnar Karlsson, "migration from Iceland is unique in that most went to Canada, whereas from most or all other European countries the majority went to the United States. This was partly due to the late beginning of emigration from Iceland after the Canadian authorities had begun to promote emigration in cooperation with the Allan Line, which already had an agent in Iceland in 1873. Contrary to most European countries, this promotion campaign was successful in Iceland, because emigration was only just about to start from there and Icelandic emigrants had no relatives in the United States to help them take the first steps".<ref name=":0" />

In the wake of the [[2008 Icelandic financial crisis]], many Icelanders went to work abroad.<ref>Guðbjört Guðjónsdóttir. “ ‘We Blend in with the Crowd but They Don’t’: (In)visibility and Icelandic Migrants in Norway.” ''Nordic Journal of Migration Research'' 4 (2014): 176–183.</ref>