Heilbrigðisskýrslur - 01.12.1988, Qupperneq 132

Public Health in lceland 1988 A Summary
1. The climatic conditions
The climatic conditions were relatively favourable most of the year except in April when it
was unusually cold all over the country. The mean temperature was 0.9° C below the average.
The precipitation was below the average except in the north-eastem and southem part of the
country.
2. Population. Births and deaths
The lst ofDecember 1988 the population oflceland was 251,690(1987 : 247,357).The
population of Reykjavík was 95,811 (1987 : 93,425). The estimated midyear population was
249,885 (1987:245,962).
The marriage rate was 5.2 (1987 : 4.7), the live birth rate was 18.7 (1987 : 17.0) and the
death rate was 7.3 (1987 : 7.0) per 1000 inhabitants. The infant mortality rate was 6.2 (1987 :
7.2) per 1000 bom alive. The perinatal death rate was 7.5 (1987 : 8.3).
3. Causes of deaths are shown on pp. 7-24.
The following are the most common.
Number Per 1000 of deaths Per 1000 of the population
Diseases of the Hearth 602 331.1 2.41
Malignant Neoplasms 444 244.2 1.78
Vascular Lesions of the Brain 182 100.1 0.73
Pneumonia 162 89.1 0.65
Accidents (incl. suicides) 120 66.0 0.48
Influenza 44 24.2 0.18
Emphysema 29 16.0 0.12
Chronic Bronchitis 14 7.7 0.06
Artheriosclerosis 10 5.5 0.04
Congenital Anomalis 9 5.0 0.04
Other and unknown Causes 202 111.1 0.81
4. Infective and parasitic diseases.
The incidence of infective and parasitic diseases in 1988 is shown in tables II and III.
The table shows the incidence of infective and parasitic diseases and deaths from each
disease. Diseases of which there have been no cases for the last ten years are not included in
this table.
130