A total of 82.2% of teachers in upper secondary schools in November 2009 are licensed teachers, an increase from 78.0% in the previous year. The proportion of licensed teachers has not been this high during the last decade or since the data collection was started by Statistics Iceland ten years ago. More

Total value of catch of Icelandic vessels amounted to 57 billion ISK in January-May 2010, compared with 43.1 billion ISK in the first five months of 2009. Total value increased therefore by 32.4% between years. More

The value of exported goods from Iceland amounted to ISK 321,400 million fob and the value of imported goods amounted to ISK 252,900 million fob. Thus there was a trade surplus, calculated on fob value, of 68,500 million as compared with a trade surplus of ISK 41,300 million in January-July 2009, at fixed rates of exhange.More