Depopulated Greenland Villages Without Active Settlement Policy

If a more active settlement policy is not implemented, 2/3 of the population will live in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, by 2100. The villages will likely be depopulated by around 2070, assesses Rambøll Management in an analysis ordered by the Greenland Business Association. That is reported by the newspaper Sermitsiaq.ag.

1/3 of the population in Greenland is currently living in the capital. Nuuk has thus doubled its population in the last 40 years, writes the newspaper. Today, 12,5 percent of the population in the country lives in rural areas.

Greenland Business Association (GE) wants the analysis to be a contribution to a settlement debate, but the organization does not want to take a position on how the settlement should take place in Greenland in the future:

"As a result, the basis for businesses in several Greenlandic settlements has disappeared," the analysis says.