Born in Greenland
About 1 in 165,137 people born in 2023 started life in Greenland. A boy can expect to live 68 years and a girl 72, up from 39 and 40 in 1950. Most people live in cities, and nearly everyone has basic drinking water.
Life and health
Life lasts about 31 years longer than in 1950. Child deaths fell from 202 in every 1,000 births to 12.
GirlsBoys
Years a baby born that year could expect to live.
In every 1,000 births.
Family
Women had 5.6 children on average in 1950. Now it is 1.9, below the 2.1 it takes to keep a population steady.
Average over a lifetime.
Money and work
Daily life
The largest city is Nuuk, with 14,798 people.
People on the move
About 33% as many people born here live abroad as live here. The most common destinations are Denmark, Guatemala, Norway.
Safety nets
100% of older people receive a pension. Help for someone who loses a job reaches 96%.
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 Greenland, to a family drawn from these numbers. Every life replays exactly from its seed.
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