Population in Districts and Municipalities January 1st by district, residence and time

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	1977	1987	1997	2007	2017	2026
Total
Total	49,717	53,733	55,971	56,648	55,860	56,740
Town	37,253	42,662	45,352	46,999	48,248	50,407
Settlement	11,037	10,027	9,962	9,088	7,361	6,255
Nanortalik
Total	2,861	2,637	2,590	2,281	1,782	1,427
Town	1,396	1,408	1,541	1,450	1,244	1,088
Settlement	1,352	1,151	1,005	783	511	333
Qaqortoq
Total	3,153	3,436	3,475	3,490	3,251	3,182
Town	2,671	3,034	3,103	3,241	3,084	3,081
Settlement	427	334	317	198	121	101
Narsaq
Total	2,285	2,147	2,081	2,015	1,659	1,480
Town	1,894	1,786	1,709	1,691	1,397	1,241
Settlement	287	267	286	239	197	239
Ivittuut
Total	150	218	187	182	1	0
Town	42	29	1	11	0	0
Settlement	0	0	0	0	0	0
Paamiut
Total	2,688	2,611	2,222	1,906	1,530	1,274
Town	2,275	2,265	1,972	1,753	1,447	1,205
Settlement	413	346	250	153	83	69
Nuuk
Total	9,032	11,649	13,300	15,047	17,851	20,508
Town	8,545	11,209	12,909	14,719	17,600	20,298
Settlement	484	440	385	323	248	207
Maniitsoq
Total	3,910	3,992	3,885	3,545	3,143	3,085
Town	2,937	3,068	3,011	2,842	2,561	2,528
Settlement	973	924	874	703	582	557
Sisimiut
Total	4,644	5,450	5,737	6,140	6,096	6,022
Town	3,740	4,716	5,116	5,344	5,414	5,455
Settlement	904	734	621	796	682	567
Kangaatsiaq
Total	1,191	1,263	1,565	1,463	1,182	985
Town	397	479	690	669	536	469
Settlement	773	784	875	794	646	516
Aasiaat
Total	3,666	3,524	3,360	3,189	3,259	3,062
Town	3,347	3,231	3,112	2,977	3,112	2,945
Settlement	319	293	248	212	147	117
Qasigiannguit
Total	1,756	1,778	1,600	1,291	1,183	1,029
Town	1,647	1,670	1,498	1,220	1,127	945
Settlement	109	108	102	71	56	84
Ilulissat
Total	3,982	4,522	4,634	4,996	4,908	5,513
Town	3,572	4,135	4,168	4,512	4,555	5,150
Settlement	410	387	466	484	353	363
Qeqertarsuaq
Total	1,067	1,076	1,149	1,055	876	806
Town	1,003	1,008	1,085	1,013	853	802
Settlement	64	68	64	42	23	4
Uummannaq
Total	2,686	2,583	2,760	2,450	2,236	2,160
Town	1,155	1,295	1,489	1,328	1,255	1,379
Settlement	1,229	1,131	1,271	1,122	981	781
Upernavik
Total	2,093	2,229	2,811	2,954	2,748	2,594
Town	855	921	1,115	1,157	1,055	1,096
Settlement	1,238	1,308	1,696	1,796	1,693	1,498
Qaanaaq
Total	746	794	870	846	755	684
Town	357	468	628	652	623	586
Settlement	389	326	242	194	132	98
Tasiilaq
Total	2,552	2,817	2,943	3,069	2,911	2,532
Town	1,023	1,469	1,724	1,895	2,010	1,811
Settlement	1,529	1,348	1,219	1,174	901	721
Ittoqqortoormiit
Total	562	558	529	530	383	329
Town	397	471	481	525	375	328
Settlement	137	78	41	4	5	0

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The Population Register contains information on all persons who have resided in Greenland after 1 January 1977. The purpose of the register is to be the basis for population statistics, and to supplement other personal information
with basic information about each person, like address and family relations.The Population register is updated with information from CPR (Administrative Population Register) where the following information is retrieved:
name, gender, age, place of birth, citizenship, marital status, reference to mother, father and spouse, address of residence and more.
According to §13 of the Act on Greenland Statistics, no person-related information is disclosed from the register, except for personal numbers, randomly drawn for surveys

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