Iceland may be a "submerged" country that you do not find much in political and economic forums, living in calm in a world where conflicts intensify and multiply, and in this report we highlight things and facts you may not know about Iceland, a country that always comes in advanced positions in global indicators The positive occupies the forefront of some of the indicators, and the negative occupies the bottom of these indicators, and its people live in freedom, safety and peace in a way that may raise eyebrows.
1- Last in the world in the slavery index
Iceland bottomed the global “slavery” index with only 23 enslaved, which is equivalent to a very small percentage of its population of 0.007%, and modern slavery is one person who owns or controls another person and largely deprives him of individual freedom, with the intent of exploiting this person from By using it, profiting from it, displacing it or getting rid of it, it also includes people who are subjected to “sex” trafficking or “religion” slavery.
2- The world's last in crime rates
Iceland has the lowest crime rate in the world, and people often make fun of the police because they can't find anything to do, to the point that banks, for example, have no police, and it was remarkable that in 2009 there was one murder during the year as a whole, and the country lives in All this safety and peace from crime without having an army!
3- Knock pots toppled government officials
A peaceful revolution broke out by the Icelanders (2009-2011) and the means of their protests were based mainly on banging pots and knocking on metal plates, and during the period of protests government officials fell and others rose after this innovative method of protest.
4- Quieter
That country was not only satisfied with this kind of calm and peace among humans, but also extended to include a semi-absence of one of the most annoying creatures, which is mosquitoes. !
5- A strange and familiar source of energy
Iceland does not depend for its energy on non-renewable sources such as oil only, but it depends for its energy on a renewable source of energy that may be unfamiliar, which is “geothermal energy”, as 85% of families in Iceland depend on “geothermal energy”, that energy that comes from Icelandic volcanoes and volcanic vents, and some call it "volcanic energy", and that energy is used to heat water and generate electricity.
6- Population
Their number is about 10 million, this is not the population, but the number of Atlantic puffins that are distinctive to Iceland and represent a food wealth for it, and part of the national system, and their eggs, meat and feathers are used, and it is no wonder that their numbers are many times the population in Iceland, which is 350 thousand people, of whom 120 thousand live in the capital.
7- The world's first in freedom of the Internet
Iceland topped the global ranking of the Internet Freedom Index according to the latest report issued by Freedom House. Iceland ranked first for several reasons, the most important of which is that the Internet is available within Icelandic territory with a rate of 98%, and the parliament has enacted a number of laws that protect user rights and privacy, and protect their data from penetration.
8- Category 1 in the Global Freedom Index
Iceland also ranked high in the Freedom Index in general. In the Global Freedom Index, the country was in the first category among 7 categories and levels in the Global Freedom Index, which includes civil liberties and political rights. Of course, those data and freedom rates were reflected in the freedom of the press, which Iceland occupied advanced positions in global index.
9- Distinguished educational system
Iceland has a unique and unusual education system. The basic study in Iceland starts from the age of 6 and ends at 16 years old, and if you decide to complete your studies and enter the college, you can enter it from the age of 18 to 20 years, so that the government will pay you the tuition fees. The literacy rate in Iceland is 99% of the population.
