Demographics of Greenland

Population pyramid of Greenland was highly impacted by involuntary birth control program conducted by Danish authorities in the 1960s and 70s.

[1] Values do not sum to 100% because there were 64 inhabitants living outside the five municipalities, which include residents in the unincorporated Northeast Greenland National Park.

Religion in Greenland (2010):[9][10] The nomadic Inuit were traditionally shamanistic, with a well-developed mythology primarily concerned with propitiating a vengeful and fingerless sea Goddess who controlled the success of the seal and whale hunts.

The first Norse colonists were pagan, but Erik the Red's son Leif was converted to Catholic Christianity by King Olaf Trygvesson on a trip to Norway in 990 and sent missionaries back to Greenland.

Under the patronage of the Royal Mission College in Copenhagen, Norwegian and Danish Lutherans and German Moravian missionaries searched for the missing Norse settlements and began converting the Inuit.

Most Greenlandic villages, including Nanortalik (Bjørnsted), have their own Lutheran church under the Church of Denmark