A series of posts on Facebook, some with thousands of likes, make several claims about health care, education, energy, and voting policy in Iceland. The identical posts state: “The country where education and medicare are free. No prisons. No army. Electricity is free and people rarely lock their cars and houses! … Iceland is the only country in the world where voting takes place online.”
The claims in the post are a mixture of true and false.
The assertion that education is free in Iceland is true. There is no cost associated with primary school for domestic or foreign students, but foreign students are required to pay an annual administrative fee of 75,000 kronur (around $530). Public universities do not charge tuition, though they do still charge application and registration fees. Iceland also has a total of three independent non-state universities, including international and religious schools….
