Moriusaq used to offer its inhabitants direct TV and radio broadcasting, Internet access, private telephones, and a small power station for electricity, costing tax payers 2 million DKK (US$330,000) annually.

In 2007, the school closed and the last teacher left for Qaanaaq because there were no school-aged children living in the settlement.

[3] Moriusaq was established in 1963, and it reached a population peak in the 1970s when the census reported over 100 inhabitants, but it quickly dropped to 39 in 1998.

In the subsequent years nearly all families moved away, particularly to Qaanaaq where the infrastructure is better and services are thus more readily available, making it the destination of choice despite the social problems prevalent in the town.

Further, a case of self-defense[4] in 2009 decreased the remaining population, effectively leaving the settlement with only 2 inhabitants in 2010, which were a father and a son.