How have things changed?, per square kilometre in Greenland
Greenland: How have things changed?, per square kilometre was 0.968 metric tons per square kilometre in 2023. ▲ Rising
Latest (2023)
0.968 metric tons per square kilometre
Change on year
down 0.5%
World rank
98th
of 215 countries
All-time high
1.09 metric tons per square kilometre
in 2006
All-time low
0.1376 metric tons per square kilometre
in 1968
Years of data
59
1965–2023
How have things changed?, per square kilometre in Greenland, 1965–2023
Source: Statizoid (derived). Measured in metric tons per square kilometre.
Analysis
The most recent figure for how have things changed?, per square kilometre in Greenland is 0.968 metric tons per square kilometre, measured in 2023.
The figure is down 0.5% on the previous year and down 3.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, how have things changed?, per square kilometre in Greenland peaked at 1.09 metric tons per square kilometre in 2006 and was at its lowest, 0.1376 metric tons per square kilometre, in 1968.
Greenland ranks 98th of 215 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 59 years of available data.
How have things changed?, per square kilometre in Greenland, year by year
| Year | metric tons per square kilometre | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 0.1585 metric tons per square kilometre | — |
| 1966 | 0.1643 metric tons per square kilometre | +3.7% |
| 1967 | 0.157 metric tons per square kilometre | -4.5% |
| 1968 | 0.1376 metric tons per square kilometre | -12.3% |
| 1969 | 0.2538 metric tons per square kilometre | +84.4% |
| 1970 | 0.3565 metric tons per square kilometre | +40.5% |
| 1971 | 0.3341 metric tons per square kilometre | -6.3% |
| 1972 | 0.3591 metric tons per square kilometre | +7.5% |
| 1973 | 0.4031 metric tons per square kilometre | +12.3% |
| 1974 | 0.4073 metric tons per square kilometre | +1.0% |
| 1975 | 0.3906 metric tons per square kilometre | -4.1% |
| 1976 | 0.3877 metric tons per square kilometre | -0.7% |
| 1977 | 0.4694 metric tons per square kilometre | +21.1% |
| 1978 | 0.5248 metric tons per square kilometre | +11.8% |
| 1979 | 0.5934 metric tons per square kilometre | +13.1% |
| 1980 | 0.5883 metric tons per square kilometre | -0.9% |
| 1981 | 0.6101 metric tons per square kilometre | +3.7% |
| 1982 | 0.6007 metric tons per square kilometre | -1.5% |
| 1983 | 0.569 metric tons per square kilometre | -5.3% |
| 1984 | 0.5511 metric tons per square kilometre | -3.1% |
| 1985 | 0.4749 metric tons per square kilometre | -13.8% |
| 1986 | 0.3659 metric tons per square kilometre | -22.9% |
| 1987 | 0.4761 metric tons per square kilometre | +30.1% |
| 1988 | 0.5157 metric tons per square kilometre | +8.3% |
| 1989 | 0.6293 metric tons per square kilometre | +22.0% |
| 1990 | 0.5827 metric tons per square kilometre | -7.4% |
| 1991 | 0.5233 metric tons per square kilometre | -10.2% |
| 1992 | 0.5344 metric tons per square kilometre | +2.1% |
| 1993 | 0.7641 metric tons per square kilometre | +43.0% |
| 1994 | 0.7661 metric tons per square kilometre | +0.3% |
| 1995 | 0.8296 metric tons per square kilometre | +8.3% |
| 1996 | 0.8699 metric tons per square kilometre | +4.9% |
| 1997 | 0.6766 metric tons per square kilometre | -22.2% |
| 1998 | 0.725 metric tons per square kilometre | +7.2% |
| 1999 | 0.8585 metric tons per square kilometre | +18.4% |
| 2000 | 0.8571 metric tons per square kilometre | -0.2% |
| 2001 | 0.8199 metric tons per square kilometre | -4.3% |
| 2002 | 0.8688 metric tons per square kilometre | +6.0% |
| 2003 | 0.8197 metric tons per square kilometre | -5.6% |
| 2004 | 0.9139 metric tons per square kilometre | +11.5% |
| 2005 | 1.05 metric tons per square kilometre | +14.9% |
| 2006 | 1.09 metric tons per square kilometre | +3.4% |
| 2007 | 0.9703 metric tons per square kilometre | -10.7% |
| 2008 | 0.9789 metric tons per square kilometre | +0.9% |
| 2009 | 0.8781 metric tons per square kilometre | -10.3% |
| 2010 | 0.8995 metric tons per square kilometre | +2.4% |
| 2011 | 0.8737 metric tons per square kilometre | -2.9% |
| 2012 | 0.8423 metric tons per square kilometre | -3.6% |
| 2013 | 1.01 metric tons per square kilometre | +19.6% |
| 2014 | 1.04 metric tons per square kilometre | +3.6% |
| 2015 | 0.963 metric tons per square kilometre | -7.7% |
| 2016 | 0.9375 metric tons per square kilometre | -2.6% |
| 2017 | 0.991 metric tons per square kilometre | +5.7% |
| 2018 | 0.9905 metric tons per square kilometre | -0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.9003 metric tons per square kilometre | -9.1% |
| 2020 | 0.8703 metric tons per square kilometre | -3.3% |
| 2021 | 0.9027 metric tons per square kilometre | +3.7% |
| 2022 | 0.9726 metric tons per square kilometre | +7.7% |
| 2023 | 0.968 metric tons per square kilometre | -0.5% |
Greenland compared with similar countries
- Greenland's 0.968 metric tons per square kilometre is below the median for high income countries, which is 1.48 metric tons per square kilometre, 65% of the median. (85 countries reporting)
- Greenland's 0.968 metric tons per square kilometre is above the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 0.5392 metric tons per square kilometre, 1.8× the median. (56 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where How have things changed?, per square kilometre in Greenland changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | +84.4% | 0.1376 metric tons per square kilometre | 0.2538 metric tons per square kilometre |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 0.1742 metric tons per square kilometre | 0.1376 metric tons per square kilometre | 0.2538 metric tons per square kilometre | 5 |
| 1970s | 0.4226 metric tons per square kilometre | 0.3341 metric tons per square kilometre | 0.5934 metric tons per square kilometre | 10 |
| 1980s | 0.5381 metric tons per square kilometre | 0.3659 metric tons per square kilometre | 0.6293 metric tons per square kilometre | 10 |
| 1990s | 0.713 metric tons per square kilometre | 0.5233 metric tons per square kilometre | 0.8699 metric tons per square kilometre | 10 |
| 2000s | 0.9243 metric tons per square kilometre | 0.8197 metric tons per square kilometre | 1.09 metric tons per square kilometre | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.9449 metric tons per square kilometre | 0.8423 metric tons per square kilometre | 1.04 metric tons per square kilometre | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.9284 metric tons per square kilometre | 0.8703 metric tons per square kilometre | 0.9726 metric tons per square kilometre | 4 |
Countries ranked near Greenland
- 95 Mexico 1.09 metric tons per square kilometre compare
- 96 Latvia 1.09 metric tons per square kilometre compare
- 97 Laos 0.9711 metric tons per square kilometre compare
- 99 Aruba 0.9528 metric tons per square kilometre compare
- 100 Armenia 0.9185 metric tons per square kilometre compare
- 101 Cayman Islands 0.8958 metric tons per square kilometre compare
More reference data data for Greenland
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) from N2O (AR5) - IPCC Agriculture 0.0986 (2019)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) (AR5) - IPCC Agriculture 0.2128 (2019)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CO2eq) from CH4 (AR5) - IPCC Agriculture 0.1141 (2019)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (CH4) - IPCC Agriculture 0.0041 (2019)
- Emission Totals - Emissions (N2O) - IPCC Agriculture 0.0004 (2019)
- Official exchange rate, LCU per USD, period average 6.82 (2017)
- Annual precipitation, annual growth rate 7.26 % change on previous year (2025)
- How have things changed?, per capita 5.83 metric tons per person (2024)
- Landline phone subscriptions, per capita 0.0882 units per person (2022)
- Landline phone subscriptions, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2022)
Frequently asked questions
- What is how have things changed?, per square kilometre in Greenland?
- How have things changed?, per square kilometre in Greenland was 0.968 metric tons per square kilometre in 2023, according to Statizoid (derived).
- What is the highest how have things changed?, per square kilometre recorded in Greenland?
- The highest recorded value was 1.09 metric tons per square kilometre in 2006.
- What is the lowest how have things changed?, per square kilometre recorded in Greenland?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.1376 metric tons per square kilometre in 1968.
- How does Greenland rank for how have things changed?, per square kilometre?
- Greenland ranks 98th out of 215 countries with data for 2023.
- Is how have things changed?, per square kilometre rising or falling in Greenland?
- Over the last ten years it is down 3.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Greenland data come from?
- The figures come from Statizoid (derived), published as part of How have things changed?, per square kilometre. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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How this figure is calculated
How have things changed? divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
How have things changed? ÷ Land area (sq. km)
Computed from
- How have things changed? Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
- Land area FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Statizoid computes this series; the underlying measurements belong to the publishers named above. The arithmetic is applied to every country and year where both inputs report, and nothing is estimated unless the page says so.
About this data
How have things changed? divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.