Iceland 

With data collected between 2010 and 2022, the Medical Journal of Iceland published a report on firework-related injuries in the countr; during this period, 248 people were sent to hospital for firework-related injuries, aging from 9 months to 79 years

Following the Justice Minister's declaration of a 'war on organised crime' after the recent knife attacks in a Reykjavík nightclub, the police will receive funding of 500 million Icelandic kroner ($3,5 million) to set up special investigation teams

Around 300.000 tourists are expected to arrive in Ísafjörður next summer via cruise ships, a number of tourists equal to ten times the population of the city

Icelanders read or listen to an average of 2,4 books per month and almost one third of the population reads pages of a book every day or more often, according to the results of a survey on the nation's attitude to reading

In 2022, blood was taken from 4.141 mares to produce the hormone eCG/PMSG, a total of around 24.000 times in 90 establishments; the amount of blood collected was a quarter less than in 2021 due to a decrease of breeders performing transfusions

Hrafnhildur Ólöf Ólafsdóttir, nurse and head of Reykjavík's working group on homelessness, said that after the increase in use of homeless shelters in the last 2 years, the system is no longer able to cope with the high demand

The increase in tattoos has been 9% since 2018 and now 29% of Icelanders have a tattoo, while it was 20% in 2018, according to a recent Gallup survey; women are more likely to have tattoos than men, almost 33% on 24%

The country drops one place and now ranks 5th out of 169 nations in the Social Progress Index, conducted by the independent non-profit organism Social Progress Imperative

Approximately 90 employees are needed for Reykjavík's kindergartens to be considered fully staffed; the staffing problem is one of the biggest challenges for kindergartens

After unusual cold weather and abundant rainfall in July and August, meteorologists finally announced the late arrival of the Icelandic summer, with good weather expected over the coming days, and may even last a few weeks

Almost 700 children aged 12 months and up are currently on the waiting list for a place in Reykjavík's kindergartens, with parents protesting to find childcare during the working day