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Ikerasak Facts

Area	3.8 km²
GDP per capita (PPP)	$68,210 (2022)
Local Time
Timezone	Greenland Summer Time
Lat & Lng	70.50164, -51.30246

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Ikerasak Population

Years 1975 to 2030

Data	1975	1990	2000	2015	2020	2025*	2030*
Population	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Population Density	0 / km²	0 / km²	0 / km²	0 / km²	0 / km²	0 / km²	0 / km²

* Projected

Sources: JRC (European Commission's Joint Research Centre) work on the GHS built-up grid

Ikerasak Population change from 2000 to 2000

Location	Change since 1975	Change since 1990
Ikerasak	—	—
Qaasuitsup	-55.4%	-6.8%
Greenland	-6.8%	+16%

Sources: JRC (European Commission's Joint Research Centre) work on the GHS built-up grid

Qaasuitsup Population Density

Population Density: 0 / km²

Location	Population	Area	Density
Qaasuitsup	12,104	576,067.4 km²	0 / km²
Greenland	34,483	2,165,628.3 km²	0 / km²

Sources: JRC (European Commission's Joint Research Centre) work on the GHS built-up grid

Ikerasak Historical and Projected Population

Estimated Population from 1975 to 2030

Sources:

JRC (European Commission's Joint Research Centre) work on the GHS built-up grid
CIESIN (Center for International Earth Science Information Network)
[Link] Klein Goldewijk, K., Beusen, A., Doelman, J., and Stehfest, E.: Anthropogenic land use estimates for the Holocene – HYDE 3.2, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 9, 927–953, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-927-2017, 2017.

Human Development Index (HDI)

Statistic composite index of life expectancy, education, and per capita income.

Source: [Link] Kummu, M., Taka, M. &Guillaume, J. Gridded global datasets for Gross Domestic Product and Human Development Index over 1990–2015. Sci Data 5, 180004 (2018) doi:10.1038/sdata.2018.4

Ikerasak Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

GDP per capita, PPP (constant 2017 international $)

Data	1990	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015	2020	2022
GDP per capita	$25,043	$22,676	$25,343	$37,793	$47,845	$47,046	$54,747	$68,210

Source: [Link] Kummu, M., Kosonen, M. & Masoumzadeh Sayyar, S. Downscaled gridded global dataset for gross domestic product (GDP) per capita PPP over 1990–2022. Sci Data 12, 178 (2025) doi:10.1038/s41597-025-04487-x

Qaasuitsup CO2 Emissions

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Emissions Per Capita in Tonnes Per Year

Location	CO2 Emissions	CO2 Emissions Per Capita	CO2 Emissions Intensity
Qaasuitsup	290,830 tn	24.03 tn	0.5 tons/km²
Greenland	813,754 tn	23.6 tn	0.4 tons/km²

Sources: [Link] Moran, D., Kanemoto K; Jiborn, M., Wood, R., Többen, J., and Seto, K.C. (2018) Carbon footprints of 13,000 cities. Environmental Research Letters DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aac72a

Qaasuitsup CO2 Emissions

2013 CO2 emissions (tonnes/year)	290,830 tn
2013 CO2 emissions (tonnes/year) per capita	24.03 tn
2013 CO2 emissions intensity (tonnes/km²/year)	0.5 tons/km²

Natural Hazards Risk

Relative risk out of 10

Hazard	Risk Level
Earthquake	Low (2)

* Risk, particularly concerning flood or landslide, may not be for the entire area.

Sources:

Dilley, M., R.S. Chen, U. Deichmann, A.L. Lerner-Lam, M. Arnold, J. Agwe, P. Buys, O. Kjekstad, B. Lyon, and G. Yetman. 2005. Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis. Washington, D.C.: World Bank. https://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-5930-4.
Center for Hazards and Risk Research - CHRR - Columbia University, Center for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN - Columbia University. 2005. Global Earthquake Hazard Distribution - Peak Ground Acceleration. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H4BZ63ZS.

Ikerasak

Ikerasak is a village in the Qaasuitsup municipality in western Greenland. It had 238 inhabitants in 2010.

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