Where you could be born / Europe / Northern Europe
Born in Faroe Islands
About 1 in 188,728 people born in 2023 started life in Faroe Islands. A boy can expect to live 78 years and a girl 83, up from 59 and 62 in 1950. Fewer than half of people live in cities, and nearly everyone has basic drinking water.
Life and health
Life lasts about 20 years longer than in 1950. Child deaths fell from 91 in every 1,000 births to 7.7.
GirlsBoys
Years a baby born that year could expect to live.
In every 1,000 births.
Family
Women had 3.9 children on average in 1950. Now it is 2.2.
Average over a lifetime.
Money and work
Daily life
The largest city is Tórshavn, with 13,200 people.
People on the move
About 22% as many people born here live abroad as live here. The most common destinations are Denmark, Norway, Iceland.
Events in the data
The game draws real events from these records, so a life lived here can meet them.
Now live it.
Born in Faroe Islands, to a family drawn from these numbers. Every life replays exactly from its seed.
Elsewhere in Europe
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