More people moving to the Faroes lack residential ties
Wednesday 11th November 2026 on 10:15 in
Faroe Islands
More people who have moved to the Faroe Islands in recent months lack residential ties there than have them, Statistics Faroe Islands says, according to KVF.
Net migration between 1 October last year and 1 October this year was 699 people. A total of 1,880 people moved to the Faroes, while 1,181 left.
On 1 October, 3,149 people living in the Faroes had no residential ties to the islands, up from 2,726 a year earlier and 1,899 in October 2021.
People are considered to have residential ties to the Faroes if, at some point in their lives, they have lived there for at least half their life or for seven consecutive years out of ten.
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(via KVF)