NORWAY

Capital Oslo
Area (km2) 323 759
Total population (thousands, 2019) 5 348
Population density (per km2) 17
National currency Norwegian krone (NOK)
National statistical office www.ssb.no
Statistics Norway
Women in the labour force, 2019
   percentage of total for both sexes 0%
Gender pay gap
   monthly earnings, 2019 12%
   hourly wage, 2018 13%
Women in part-time employment, 2019
   percentage of employed women 38%
Female tertiary students, 2018
   percentage of total for both sexes 58%
Female victims of homicide, 2001
   percentage of total for both sexes 53%
Women researchers, 2018
   percentage of total for both sexes 39%
Life expectancy at birth, 2020
   females, years 84.9
   males, years 81.6
Life expectancy at 65, 2020
   females, years 22.1
   males, years 19.8
Total fertility rate, 2019
   average number of children per woman 1.5
Adolescent fertility rate, 2019
   number of live births per 1000 women aged 15-19 2.3
Mean age of women at birth of first child, 2019
   age in years 29.7
 
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
Employment
 (% change over previous year)
0.5
0.3
1.2
1.6
1.6
-1.3
Unemployment rate
 (%)
4.3
4.7
4.2
3.8
3.7
4.4
Youth unemployment rate
 (%)
9.9
11.2
10.4
9.7
10.0
..
GDP
   current prices, millions of US dollars, PPP, 2019 359 336
GDP, per capita
   current prices, US dollars, PPP, 2019 67 191
Exports of goods and services
   % of GDP, 2020 32.5
Imports of goods and services
   % of GDP, 2020 33.0
Final consumption expenditure, per capita
   current prices, US dollars, PPP, 2019 46 155
Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
   NOK per USD, US=1, 2019 9.931
Forest resources
   Area of forest
 (percentage of land area, 2015)
 40
   Wood volume
 (m3 per inhabitant, 2015)
 223

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Transport infrastructure, road accidents and traffic
   Railways
      total length in kilometres, 2019 3 890
   Motorways
      total length in kilometres, 2019 1 008
   Persons injured in road accidents
      per million inhabitants, 2019 777
   Persons killed in road accidents
      per million inhabitants, 2019 20
   Traffic, railways
      million passenger-kilometres, 2019 3 715
      million tonne-kilometres, 2019 3 903
   Traffic, roads
      million passenger-kilometres, 2014 68 786
      million tonne-kilometres, 2019 21 466