[stannol]

I wish people would stop taking Iceland as an example for pretty much anything. They basically have two industries (Fishing and aluminium) and only 300 000 people, they are a very special case and comparisons rarely make sense.

[Cthulhu_]

And Eve Online, I guess. 300K is even less than I thought that country has. We (NL)'ve got more unemployed, elderly/retired, children, etc than that. Of course the ratio will probably be about equal, but yeah, can't compare a 300.000 people economy with a 17 million and 5.5 million one.

[techman9]

Does Bjork count as an industry?

[mseebach]

She lives in New York and her label is London-based. If she does count as an industry, it's not an Icelandic one.

[AndrewKemendo]

In that case, Vladivostok would be a great comparison metric also!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladivostok

[robin_reala]

Iceland’s tourism industry is now bigger than fishing as of 2015.