Norway

Official name (in Norwegian)

Kongeriket Norge

Name etymology

derives from the Old Norse words norre and vegr, meaning "northern way," and refers to the long coastline of western Norway

DesignMeaningHistory

Pursuant to section 1 of the Act on Norway's Flag of 10 December 1898, Norway's merchant flag shall be bright red and divided into four right-angled rectangles by a dark blue cross, which is separated from the red rectangles by a white border.

Unofficial translation by Worldometer

EnglishNorwegian

Title (in Norwegian)

Ja, vi elsker dette landet

Title (in English, translated)

Yes, We Love This Country

Lyrics

NorwegianEnglish

1

Ja, vi elsker dette landet, som det stiger frem, furet, værbitt over vannet, med de tusen hjem. Elsker, elsker det og tenker på vår far og mor og den saganatt som senker drømmer på vår jord. og den saganatt som senker senker drømmer på vår jord.

2

Dette landet Harald berget med sin kjemperad, dette landet Håkon verget medens Øyvind kvad; Olav på det landet malte korset med sitt blod, fra dets høye Sverre talte Roma midt imot. fra dets høye Sverre talte talte Roma midt imot.

3

Bønder sine økser brynte hvor en hær dro frem, Tordenskiold langs kysten lynte, så det lystes hjem. Kvinner selv stod opp og strede som de vare menn; andre kunne bare grede, men det kom igjen! andre kunne bare grede, men det kom det kom igjen!

4

Visstnok var vi ikke mange, men vi strakk dog til, da vi prøvdes noen gange, og det stod på spill; ti vi heller landet brente enn det kom til fall; husker bare hva som hendte ned på Fredrikshald! husker bare hva som hendte hendte ned på Fredrikshald!

5

Hårde tider har vi døyet, ble til sist forstøtt; men i verste nød blåøyet frihet ble oss født. Det gav faderkraft å bære hungersnød og krig, det gav døden selv sin ære – og det gav forlik. det gav døden selv sin ære – og det gav det gav forlik.

6

Fienden sitt våpen kastet, opp visiret for, vi med undren mot ham hastet, ti han var vår bror. Drevne frem på stand av skammen gikk vi søderpå; nu vi står tre brødre sammen, og skal sådan stå! nu vi står tre brødre sammen, sammen og skal sådan stå!

7

Norske mann i hus og hytte, takk din store Gud! Landet ville han beskytte, skjønt det mørkt så ut. Alt hva fedrene har kjempet, mødrene har grett, har den Herre stille lempet så vi vant vår rett. har den Herre stille lempet så vi vant vi vant vår rett.

8

Ja, vi elsker dette landet, som det stiger frem, furet, værbitt over vannet, med de tusen hjem. Og som fedres kamp har hevet det av nød til seir, også vi, når det blir krevet, for dets fred slår leir. også vi, når det blir krevet, for dets fred dets fred slår leir.

Land area

304,282 km²

Water area

19,520 km²

Sweden

1,666 km

Finland

709 km

Russia

191 km

Mainland, smoothed

≈2,650 km

Mainland including fjords

25,148 km(the figure above)

Including island coastlines

83,281 km

Coastline length depends on measurement resolution. Norway's fjords and roughly 50,000 islands make published figures vary from about 2,650 km to over 100,000 km.

Avg. temperature

2.6 °C

Avg. daily range

−0.6 to 5.5 °C

Annual precipitation

1,318 mm

Temperature °CMeanDaily range

°C°F

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Precipitation mm

Monthly climate normals

Month	Avg. high, °C	Mean, °C	Avg. low, °C	Precipitation, mm
January	−3.4	−5.7	−8.4	122
February	−3.2	−5.7	−8.6	100
March	−0.1	−3	−6.3	100
April	4.2	1.1	−2.5	80
May	8.9	5.7	1.7	88
June	13.3	10.1	6.1	108
July	16.3	13	9	116
August	15.2	11.9	8.2	121
September	11	8	4.9	123
October	5	2.6	0.1	124
November	0.2	−1.9	−4.3	114
December	−2.5	−4.8	−7.3	122

Country-wide averages over 1991–2020.

Arable land

803,000 hectares (2.2%)

Permanent crops

3,000 hectares (0.0%)

Permanent meadows & pastures

176,000 hectares (0.5%)

Forest

12,113,508 hectares (33.3%)

Other land

23,331,492 hectares (64.0%)

Birth rate

9.4 per 1,000 population

Death rate

7.8 per 1,000 population

Net migration rate

+2.1 per 1,000 population

MaleAgeFemale

80+70-7960-6950-5940-4930-3920-2910-190-9

% of total population

Population by age group, % of total population

Age	Male	Female
80+	2.2%	3.0%
70-79	4.3%	4.5%
60-69	5.7%	5.6%
50-59	6.7%	6.5%
40-49	6.6%	6.3%
30-39	7.1%	6.9%
20-29	6.5%	6.2%
10-19	6.0%	5.7%
0-9	5.2%	4.9%

Share aged 65 and over

19.4%

Share aged under 18

19.3%

Total dependency ratio

54

Youth dependency ratio

24

Elderly dependency ratio

30

Sex ratio

1.02 male / female

Norwegian includes about 60,000 Sami.

The Church of Norway, Evangelical Lutheran, is the official church.

The King holds executive power and the Crown passes by lineal succession; the Constitution calls Norway "a free, independent, indivisible and inalienable realm" with "a limited and hereditary monarchy" (§§ 1, 3, 6).

The King chooses a Council of State of a Prime Minister and at least seven members, who must resign after a Storting (parliament) no-confidence vote against them or the whole Council; no one may dissolve the Storting, which sits four years (§§ 12, 15, 71).

1. ThuJan 1New Year's Day
2. ThuApr 2Maundy Thursday
3. FriApr 3Good Friday
4. SunApr 5Easter Sunday
5. MonApr 6Easter Monday
6. FriMay 1Labor Day
7. ThuMay 14Ascension Day
8. SunMay 17Constitution Day
9. SunMay 24Pentecost
10. MonMay 25Pentecost Monday
11. FriDec 25Christmas Day
12. SatDec 26Second Day of Christmas

Nationwide public holidays only, excluding regional, bank and government-only days.

World average 42

highly corruptvery clean

Significant declinerDown 7 points since 2015, when it scored 88.

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Confidence interval

Corruption index score by year

Year	Score	Lower bound	Upper bound
2012	85	82	87
2013	86	82	90
2014	86	82	90
2015	88	84	92
2016	85	82	88
2017	85	82	88
2018	84	80	88
2019	84	81.3	86.7
2020	84	81.9	86.1
2021	85	83.2	86.8
2022	84	82.1	85.9
2023	84	81.7	86.3
2024	81	78.3	83.7
2025	81	78.3	83.7

GDP per capita (nominal)

$115,188 (5th in the world)

The shape of the economy

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GDP by end use

Households

+42.5%

Government

+22.6%

Investment

+23.2%

Exports

+45.4%

Imports

−33.7%

Current account

20.7% of GDP, $134.7 billion surplus

Projected GDP growth

+1.3% a year over the next 10 years

By specializationBy volume

ProductSpecialization index

1. 1Oats38.5×
2. 2Barley13.9×
3. 3Raw milk of cattle5.6×
4. 4Meat of cattle with the bone (fresh or chilled)3.8×
5. 5Meat of pig with the bone (fresh or chilled)3.1×
6. 6Carrots and turnips3.1×
7. 7Potatoes2.8×
8. 8Meat of chickens (fresh or chilled)2.6×
9. 9Hen eggs in shell (fresh)2.4×
10. 10Wheat0.9×

Median

€5,217 per month($5,895)

Men

€6,372 per month($7,200)

Women

€4,932 per month($5,573)

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NorwayWorld

Human Development Index by year

Year	Norway	World
1990	0.856	0.608
1991	0.863	0.611
1992	0.868	0.614
1993	0.875	0.617
1994	0.890	0.620
1995	0.887	0.625
1996	0.894	0.631
1997	0.900	0.636
1998	0.908	0.641
1999	0.913	0.646
2000	0.924	0.651
2001	0.923	0.657
2002	0.923	0.662
2003	0.930	0.669
2004	0.937	0.675
2005	0.939	0.681
2006	0.942	0.688
2007	0.943	0.694
2008	0.943	0.698
2009	0.944	0.701
2010	0.947	0.707
2011	0.949	0.713
2012	0.950	0.717
2013	0.953	0.721
2014	0.956	0.726
2015	0.959	0.731
2016	0.962	0.735
2017	0.965	0.739
2018	0.966	0.741
2019	0.967	0.745
2020	0.969	0.742
2021	0.969	0.742
2022	0.967	0.752
2023	0.970	0.756

Expected for a child today

18.8 years

Share of government spending

14.5%

Households with Internet access

99.5%

Fixed telephone lines

73,208

Fixed broadband

45.2 subscriptions per 100 people

Counts subscriptions, not people.

Debit-card ownership

98%

Account at a bank or mobile-money provider

99%

Made or received a digital payment

99%

Asylum seekers

6,373

Stateless persons

1,615

Internally displaced persons

4(2021)All due to disasters

Refugees from Norway abroad

10

Overnight arrivals by year2010 to 2022

Per resident

9.1 arrivals per 10 residents

Same-day visitors

1.7 million arrivals(2011, latest available)

Visitor spending in the country

$8.9 billion(2024)

Share of GDP

2.5% tourism direct GDP(2021, latest available)

Domestic trips

24 million overnight trips by residents(2024)

Residents' trips abroad

8.4 million overnight trips(2024)

Residents' spending abroad

$19.2 billion(2024)

Hotel beds

215,305(2024)

Average hotel stay

1.7 nights(2024)

A tourist stays at least one night. Arrivals count trips, not people.

Site	Type
Bryggen	Cultural
Urnes Stave Church	Cultural
Røros Mining Town and the Circumference	Cultural
Rock Art of Alta	Cultural
Vegaøyan – The Vega Archipelago	Cultural
Struve Geodetic Arc	Cultural
West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord	Natural
Rjukan-Notodden Industrial Heritage Site	Cultural

A low figure can also mean weak recording.

Persons held

3,432

Men

15%

Women

12.4%

World median

3.1%

CO₂ per capita

7.1 t per person

World Rank37thof 207

Share of global CO₂

0.10%

Methane (CH₄)

8.82 Mt CO₂-eq

Nitrous oxide (N₂O)

3.69 Mt CO₂-eq

Fluorinated gases

1.24 Mt CO₂-eq

All greenhouse gases

53.8 Mt CO₂-eq

WHO guideline

5 µg/m³

National standard

5 µg/m³

Life expectancy gain if the national standard were met

0.1 years

Treaty	Standing	Joined
Climate
Paris Agreement	in force	2016
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change	in force	1994
Kyoto Protocol	in force	2005
Ozone layer
Montreal Protocol	in force	1989
Vienna Convention (Ozone Layer)	in force	1988
Biodiversity
Convention on Biological Diversity	in force	1993
CITES	in force	1976
Convention on Migratory Species (Bonn)	in force	1985
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety	in force	2003
Nagoya Protocol	in force	2014
Land and heritage
Ramsar Convention on Wetlands	in force	1975
World Heritage Convention	in force	1977
UN Convention to Combat Desertification	in force	1996
Chemicals and waste
Basel Convention	in force	1992
Rotterdam Convention (PIC)	in force	2004
Stockholm Convention (POPs)	in force	2004
Minamata Convention on Mercury	in force	2017
Oceans
UN Convention on the Law of the Sea	in force	1996
High Seas Treaty (BBNJ)	in force	2026
MARPOL 73/78	in force	1983

Per person

72,020 m³ per year

Dependency ratio

3% originates outside the country

Annual water withdrawal

2.7 billion m³ per year

Withdrawn for agriculture

31%

Water stress

2% of available freshwater withdrawn

Men

21.1%

Women

19.2%

Per capita

218 GJ per person

Share of world total

0.19%

Supply

Surplusproduces 8.2× what it consumes, 2024

OverviewBy source

Generation

155 TWh per year

Consumption

129 TWh per year

Imports

15 TWh per year

Exports

33 TWh per year

Net

+18 TWh per year

Norway has had compulsory military service since 1907; individuals conscripted each year are selected from a larger cohort who are evaluated through online assessments and physical tests.Norway was the first NATO country to allow women to serve in all combat arms branches of the military (1985); it also has an all-female special operations unit known as Jegertroppen (The Hunter Troop), which was established in 2014.

Launch sites

Andøya Space Center (Andøya Island; note - first operational spaceport in continental Europe)

Key milestones

1962

Launched first research rocket

1992

Began operating first communications satellite (THOR-1)

2010

Built first satellite (AISSat-1) to monitor from polar orbit Automatic Identification Signals from ships (launched by India)

2017

Launched two microsatellites (NorSat-1 and -2) to track commercial sea vessels

2025

Signed US-led Artemis Accords for space and lunar exploration