Due to the distance of the country from Denmark, it is clear that Iceland was subject to similar developments in the conducting of censuses that were to be found in other European colonies since the latter part of the seventeenth century.
Vegna fjarlægðar landsins frá Danmörku er ljóst að Ísland hefur notið sambærilegrar þróunar í manntalsgerð og finna má í evrópskum nýlendum allt frá síðari hluta sautjándu aldar.