Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate2024
Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Article 8 states:
If the Office of President of the Republic becomes vacant or if the President is unable to perform his duties due to a stay abroad, illness, or other reasons, the Prime Minister, the President of Althingi and the President of the Supreme Court shall exercise presidential authority. The President of Althingi shall preside at their meetings. In a divergence of opinion among them, the majority shall prevail.
Article 18 states:
Anyone who is eligible for election, of sound mind and body, and younger than 65 years of age is obliged to serve if elected to a municipal council. No person's name may, however, be placed on a list of candidates without his/her written permission.
Article 1 states:
If the circumstances of a voter…are such that he requests to have a representative, whom he has chosen himself, help him to cast his vote, the election official shall make a break in voting until other voters who may be present have finished casting their votes...The election official shall authorise the representative to help the voter to cast his vote if the voter himself is able to express his will clearly … to the election official stating that he wishes to have assistance from the representative…If the voter is not able, by himself, to express this will clearly to the election official, then the election official shall authorise the representative to help the voter to cast his vote if the voter submits a certificate from a rights protection officer who works in accordance with the Act on the Protection of the Rights of Disabled Persons confirming that the voter has himself chosen a particular, named, representative to help him to cast his vote... The election official shall record his decision in the register provided for under the first paragraph and state the reasons for it…If the election official authorises the voter’s representative to assist him with casting his vote, then voting shall proceed and the fact that assistance was given shall be mentioned in the accompanying letter…
Article 2 states:
If the circumstances of a voter covered by the first paragraph are such that he requests to have a representative, whom he has chosen himself, help him to cast his vote in the polling booth, a break shall be made in the voting until other voters who may be present in the polling room have finished casting their votes... The electoral commission, or local electoral commission…shall immediately prepare a ruling on the voter’s request... The electoral commission shall authorise the representative to help the voter to cast his vote if the voter himself is able to express his will clearly… to the electoral commission stating that he wishes to have assistance from the representative…If the voter is not able, by himself, to express this will clearly …then the electoral commission shall authorise the representative to help the voter to cast his vote if the voter submits a certificate from a rights protection officer who works in accordance with the Act on the Protection of the Rights of Disabled Persons, confirming that the voter has himself chosen a particular, named, representative to help him to cast his vote... The electoral commission’s decision shall be recorded in the electoral records book, with the reasons stated…
Article 4 states:
If the circumstances of a voter covered by the first paragraph are such that he requests to have a representative, whom he has chosen himself, help him to cast his vote in the polling booth, a break shall be made in the voting until other voters who may be present in the polling room have finished casting their votes... The electoral commission, or local electoral commission where there is more than one ward, shall immediately prepare a ruling on the voter’s request... The electoral commission shall authorise the representative to help the voter to cast his vote if the voter himself is able to express his will clearly …to the electoral commission stating that he wishes to have assistance from the representative…If the voter is not able, by himself, to express this will clearly to the electoral commission, then the electoral commission shall authorise the representative to help the voter to cast his vote if the voter submits a certificate from a rights protection officer who works in accordance with the Act on the Protection of the Rights of Disabled Persons, confirming that the voter has himself chosen a particular, named, representative to help him to cast his vote…The electoral commission’s decision shall be recorded in the electoral records book, with the reasons stated...