Editing Demographics of Norway (section)

==Population==

The total population of Norway on 1 July 2023 was 5,514,042.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Befolkning|url=https://www.ssb.no/befolkning/folketall/statistikk/befolkning|access-date=5 June 2021|website=SSB|language=nn|archive-date=14 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614221115/https://www.ssb.no/befolkning/folketall/statistikk/befolkning|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Statistics Norway]] estimated that the 5,000,000 milestone was reached on 19 March 2012.<ref name="berglund">Nina Berglund: [http://www.newsinenglish.no/2012/03/18/norwegians-now-number-5-million/ Norwegians now number 5 million] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119052354/http://www.newsinenglish.no/2012/03/18/norwegians-now-number-5-million/ |date=19 January 2021 }} News in English, 18 March 2012</ref>

The following demographic statistics are from the World Population Review.<ref name="WPR2008">{{citation |title=World Population Review: Norway Population 2018 |date=14 June 2018 |url=http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/norway-population/ |access-date=26 July 2018 |archive-date=26 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726103711/http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/norway-population/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* One birth every 8 minutes
* One death every 13 minutes
* One net migrant every 19 minutes
* Net gain of one person every 10 minutes

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| y1= 2.23, 2.25, 2.28, 2.29, 2.3, 2.31, 2.32, 2.33, 2.35, 2.37, 2.38, 2.4, 2.42, 2.45, 2.47, 2.5, 2.52, 2.55, 2.58, 2.6, 2.64, 2.67, 2.7, 2.71, 2.73, 2.75, 2.76, 2.78, 2.79, 2.8, 2.81, 2.82, 2.84, 2.86, 2.87, 2.89, 2.9, 2.92, 2.94, 2.95, 2.97, 2.99, 3.01, 3.03, 3.06, 3.09, 3.13, 3.17, 3.2, 3.23, 3.27, 3.3, 3.33, 3.36, 3.39, 3.43, 3.46, 3.49, 3.52, 3.55, 3.58, 3.61, 3.64, 3.67, 3.69, 3.72, 3.75, 3.79, 3.82, 3.85, 3.88,3.9, 3.93, 3.96, 3.99, 4.01, 4.03, 4.04, 4.06, 4.07, 4.09, 4.1, 4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15, 4.17,4.19, 4.21, 4.23, 4.24, 4.26, 4.29,4.31, 4.33, 4.36, 4.38, 4.41, 4.43, 4.46, 4.49, 4.51, 4.54, 4.57, 4.59, 4.62, 4.66, 4.71, 4.77, 4.83, 4.89, 4.95, 5.02, 5.08, 5.14, 5.17, 5.21, 5.26, 5.3, 5.33, 5.37, 5.39, 5.43, 5.49
 
| y1Title= population (million)
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| x = 1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

| y1= 13.8,14.8,15.3,13.8,13.6,12.4,13.1,12.0,12.1,13.2,12.3,12.5,11.9,11.8,11.7,10.2,10.4,11.5,7.5,9.1,13.5,12.7,11.3,11.1,10.0,8.6,8.8,6.9,7.0,5.8,6.5,5.4,5.4,4.6,4.7,4.0,4.2,4.7,5.5,5.7,5.3,4.5,7.0,8.5,9.7,10.3,13.3,11.9,11.6,10.5,10.0,10.0,10.3,10.3,9.9,10.1,9.9,9.3,8.9,8.8,8.2,8.1,7.7,7.2,8.2,8.3,8.3,8.1,7.8,7.5,6.7,6.8,6.3,5.4,5.1,4.1,3.3,2.7,2.7,2.4,2.4,2.2,2.4,1.9,1.9,1.6,2.1,2.2,2.9,3.3,3.5,3.7,3.6,3.0,3.5,3.5,3.9,3.5,3.2,3.1,3.3,2.8,2.4,3.0,3.3,3.4,3.7,3.5,3.9,4.2,4.1,3.8,3.6,3.6,3.6,3.5,3.5,3.0,2.8,2.6,2.4, 2.6, 1.0
| y2=, -4.2,-6.1,-8.6,-9.2,-7.6,-8.8,-7.7,-4.8,-3.9,-5.6,-5.4,-2.8,-2,-1.5,0.2,-0.9,-0.1,3,0.5,-1.4,-0.3,-1.3,-4.5,-4.1,-2,-3,-2.5,-3.4,-2.3,-2.2,0.6,0.9,1,0.9,1.2,1,0.5,0.3,0.4,1,1.1,-0.7,-0.9,-0.5,-0.3,-1.8,0.1,-0.4,-0.3,-0.5,-0.6,-0.6,-0.5,-0.2,-0.4,-0.3,-0.1,-0.1,-0.4,-0.4,-0.1,0.3,0.4,-0.9,-0.5,-0.3,0.4,1.1,0.8,0,-0.1,1.3,1.7,1,1.4,1.4,1.5,1.2,1,0.8,1.3,1.3,1.3,1,1.5,1.2,2.6,2.3,0.9,-0.2,1.2,2,3,-0.7,4.3,1.1,2,2.7,3.8,3.1,2.3,2.9,2.9,2.4,3.3,4.4,6.7,8.4,8.4,8.2,9.1,9.5,8.3,7.7,1.9,5.7,5.5,4.5,3.4,5.1,1.8,5.2
 
| y1Title=Natural change (per 1000)
| y2Title=Crude migration change (per 1000)
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| y1= 4.40,4.37,4.26,4.16,4.07,3.95,3.92,3.87,3.87,3.96,3.82,3.80,3.72,3.64,3.62,3.37,3.43,3.53,3.44,3.17,3.61,3.31,3.18,3.09,2.85,2.61,2.59,2.38,2.34,2.23,2.19,2.07,2.04,1.86,1.82,1.78,1.84,1.84,1.88,2.00,1.95,1.83,2.11,2.26,2.45,2.43,2.77,2.66,2.62,2.52,2.46,2.47,2.58,2.64,2.67,2.76,2.83,2.83,2.86,2.88,2.85,2.91,2.89,2.91,2.95,2.89,2.86,2.82,2.76,2.70,2.61,2.51,2.37,2.28,2.15,2.00,1.88,1.77,1.79,1.77,1.74,1.70,1.71,1.67,1.66,1.68,1.71,1.80,1.84,1.89,1.93,1.92,1.88,1.86,1.87,1.87,1.89,1.87,1.81,1.85,1.85,1.78,1.75,1.80,1.83,1.84,1.90,1.90,1.96,1.98,1.95,1.88,1.85,1.78,1.76,1.73,1.71,1.62,1.56,1.53,1.48, 1.55

| y1Title=Total Fertility Rate
}}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! [[Fylke|County]]
! [[Population]] (2025)
|-
| [[Akershus]]
| 740,680   
|-
| [[Oslo]]
| 724,290
|-
| [[Vestland]]
| 655,210
|-
| [[Rogaland]]
| 504,496
|-
| [[Agder]]
| 322,188
|-
| [[Østfold]]
| 314,407
|-
| [[Buskerud]]
| 271,248
|-
| [[Møre og Romsdal]]
| 272,413
|-
| [[Trøndelag]]
| 486,815
|-
| [[Nordland]]
| 243,582
|-
| [[Troms]]
| 170,479
|-
| [[Innlandet]]
| 377,556
|-
| [[Telemark]]
| 177,863
|-
| [[Finnmark]]
| 75,042
|-
| [[Vestfold]]
| 258,071
|}

===Fertility===
[[File:Total fertility rate of Norway overtime to 2016.svg|thumb|409x409px|TFR of Norway overtime to 2016]]
The [[total fertility rate]] is the number of children born per woman. It is based on fairly good data for the entire period. Sources: [[Our World In Data]] and [[Gapminder Foundation]].<ref name="ourworldindata.org">{{citation|url=https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-born-per-woman?year=1800&country=NOR|title=Total Fertility Rate around the world over the last centuries|author=Max Roser|date=2014|work=[[Our World In Data]], [[Gapminder Foundation]]|access-date=7 August 2018|archive-date=7 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807220310/https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-born-per-woman?year=1800&country=NOR|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Arnt og Ane Martha Solem med familie (14285279567).jpg|thumb|225px|A large size Norwegian nuclear family in 1890]]
{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
|-
! Years !!1800!!1801!!1802!!1803!!1804!!1805!!1806!!1807!!1808!!1809!!1810<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
|-
| align="left" |Total Fertility Rate in Norway|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.32|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.07|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.91|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.2|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.94|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.33|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.39|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.27|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.21|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.87
|}
[[File:Annual population growth of Norway.svg|300px|thumb|Annual [[population growth]] in Norway 1951–2016, in thousands<ref name="ssb05803" />
{{Col-begin}}{{Col-2}}{{legend|#FFA500|Natural growth}}{{Col-2}}{{legend|#4DBD33|Total growth}}{{Col-end}}
]]
{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
|-
! Years !!1811!!1812!!1813!!1814!!1815!!1816!!1817!!1818!!1819!!1820<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
|-
| align="left" |Total Fertility Rate in Norway|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.99|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.26|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.76|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.53|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.4|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |5.05|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.67|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.43|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.59|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.79
|}
{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
|-
! Years !!1821!!1822!!1823!!1824!!1825!!1826!!1827!!1828!!1829!!1830<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
|-
| align="left" |Total Fertility Rate in Norway|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |5|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.74|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.88|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.67|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.94|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |5.01|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.61|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.58|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.84|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.65
|}
{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
|-
! Years !!1831!!1832!!1833!!1834!!1835!!1836!!1837!!1838!!1839!!1840<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
|-
| align="left" |Total Fertility Rate in Norway|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.46|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.3|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.42|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.56|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.7|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.23|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.13|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.36|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.84|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.01
|}
{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
|-
! Years !!1841!!1842!!1843!!1844!!1845!!1846!!1847!!1848!!1849!!1850<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
|-
| align="left" |[[Total Fertility Rate]] in Norway|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.29|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.42|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.34|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.31|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.49|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.4|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.43|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.28|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.61|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.45
|}
{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
|-
! Years !!1851!!1852!!1853!!1854!!1855!!1856!!1857!!1858!!1859!!1860<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
|-
| align="left" |Total Fertility Rate in Norway|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.6|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.46|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.6|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.93|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.61|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.42|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.54|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.62|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.82|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.63
|}
{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
|-
! Years !!1861!!1862!!1863!!1864!!1865!!1866!!1867!!1868!!1869!!1870<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
|-
| align="left" |Total Fertility Rate in Norway|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.3|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.52|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.69|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.55|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.6|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.61|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.38|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.3|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.22|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.26
|}
{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
|-
! Years !!1871!!1872!!1873!!1874!!1875!!1876!!1877!!1878!!1879!!1880<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
|-
| align="left" |Total Fertility Rate in Norway|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.29|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.4|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.41|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.59|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.67|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.68|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.69|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.64|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.71|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.53
|}
{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
|-
! Years !!1881!!1882!!1883!!1884!!1885!!1886!!1887!!1888!!1889!!1890<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
|-
| align="left" |Total Fertility Rate in Norway|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.4|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.47|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.51|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.59|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.56|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.48|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.56|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.42|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.31|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.43
|}
{| class="wikitable " style="text-align:right"
|-
! Years !!1891!!1892!!1893!!1894!!1895!!1896!!1897!!1898!!1899<ref name="ourworldindata.org" />
|-
| align="left" |Total Fertility Rate in Norway|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.51|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.35|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.47|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.38|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.52|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.47|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.48|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.53|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.47
|}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! [[Fylke|County]]
! [[Fertility rate]] (2024)
|-
| [[Østfold]]
| 1.47    
|-
| [[Akershus]]
| 1.57    
|-
| [[Oslo]]
| 1.31
|-
| [[Buskerud]]
| 1.44    
|-
| [[Innlandet]]
| 1.40
|-
| [[Vestfold]]
| 1.45
|-
| [[Telemark]]
| 1.41
|-
| [[Agder]]
| 1.53
|-
| [[Rogaland]]
| 1.63
|-
| [[Vestland]]
| 1.47
|-
| [[Møre og Romsdal]]
| 1.58
|-
| [[Trøndelag]]
| 1.43
|-
| [[Nordland]]
| 1.42
|-
| [[Troms]]
| 1.34
|-
| [[Finnmark]]
| 1.51
|}

;Total fertility rate
:
:1.85 children born/woman (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 143rd
;Mother's mean age at first birth
:
:28.9 years

;Birth rate
:
:12.2 births/1,000 population (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 160th

=== Life expectancy ===

{{update section|date=June 2021}}

Sources: [[Our World In Data]] and the [[United Nations]].

'''1843–1950'''

{| class="wikitable"
!Years
!1846
!1847
!1848
!1849
!1850
!1851
!1852
!1853
!1854
!1855
!1856
!1857
!1858
!1859
!1860<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Life expectancy |url=https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?year=1810 |access-date=28 August 2018 |website=Our World in Data |archive-date=29 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180829072115/https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?year=1810 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|Life expectancy in Norway
|48.0
|44.8
|45.0
|48.0
|49.5
|49.7
|48.5
|47.9
|51.6
|50.4
|50.4
|50.2
|51.6
|49.9
|50.0
|}
[[File:Life expectancy in Norway.svg|thumb|300px|[[Life expectancy]] in Norway since 1846]]

{| class="wikitable"
!Years
!1861
!1862
!1863
!1864
!1865
!1866
!1867
!1868
!1869
!1870<ref name=":0" />
|-
|Life expectancy in Norway
|45.8
|44.7
|46.7
|48.8
|50.4
|49.9
|47.9
|47.2
|49.3
|50.9
|}
{| class="wikitable"
!Years
!1871
!1872
!1873
!1874
!1875
!1876
!1877
!1878
!1879
!1880<ref name=":0" />
|-
|Life expectancy in Norway
|49.7
|50.0
|49.7
|47.8
|47.6
|46.8
|49.7
|51.8
|53.1
|51.9
|}
{| class="wikitable"
!Years
!1881
!1882
!1883
!1884
!1885
!1886
!1887
!1888
!1889
!1890<ref name=":0" />
|-
|Life expectancy in Norway
|50.4
|47.4
|49.6
|50.8
|51.0
|51.7
|51.7
|50.4
|49.1
|48.6
|}
{| class="wikitable"
!Years
!1891
!1892
!1893
!1894
!1895
!1896
!1897
!1898
!1899
!1900<ref name=":0" />
|-
|Life expectancy in Norway
|49.8
|49.7
|51.4
|50.6
|52.8
|53.8
|53.7
|54.0
|51.6
|53.5
|}
{| class="wikitable"
!Years
!1901
!1902
!1903
!1904
!1905
!1906
!1907
!1908
!1909
!1910<ref name=":0" />
|-
|Life expectancy in Norway
|54.6
|56.5
|55.0
|56.1
|55.1
|56.9
|56.5
|56.3
|57.5
|58.0
|}
{| class="wikitable"
!Years
!1911
!1912
!1913
!1914
!1915
!1916
!1917
!1918
!1919
!1920<ref name=":0" />
|-
|Life expectancy in Norway
|58.0
|57.7
|58.3
|57.8
|58.2
|57.3
|57.7
|50.3
|56.8
|58.9
|}
{| class="wikitable"
!Years
!1921
!1922
!1923
!1924
!1925
!1926
!1927
!1928
!1929
!1930<ref name=":0" />
|-
|Life expectancy in Norway
|61.6
|60.8
|61.8
|62.1
|62.5
|63.3
|62.9
|63.4
|62.5
|64.1
|}
{| class="wikitable"
!Years
!1931
!1932
!1933
!1934
!1935
!1936
!1937
!1938
!1939
!1940<ref name=":0" />
|-
|Life expectancy in Norway
|64.1
|64.6
|65.5
|66.2
|65.8
|65.8
|66.0
|67.1
|67.4
|65.9
|}
{| class="wikitable"
!Years
!1941
!1942
!1943
!1944
!1945
!1946
!1947
!1948
!1949
!1950<ref name=":0" />
|-
|Life expectancy in Norway
|65.8
|65.7
|66.1
|65.8
|68.2
|69.5
|70.0
|71.1
|71.5
|71.6
|}

'''1950–2015'''
[[File:Life expectancy by WBG -Norway -diff.png|thumb|300px|Life expectancy in Norway since 1960 by gender]]
[[File:Norway population pyramid.gif|thumb|upright=1.7|Animated population pyramid of Norway since 1846. With Emigrants represented by lighter colors and immigrants represented in gray.]]
[[File:Norway population density per municipality in 2016-no.svg|thumb|270px|Population density map of municipalities in Norway from 2016]]
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
!Period
!Life expectancy in<br />Years
!Period
!Life expectancy in<br />Years
|-
|1950–1955
|72.8
|1985–1990
|76.3
|-
|1955–1960
|73.5
|1990–1995
|77.3
|-
|1960–1965
|73.5
|1995–2000
|78.3
|-
|1965–1970
|73.9
|2000–2005
|79.3
|-
|1970–1975
|74.4
|2005–2010
|80.6
|-
|1975–1980
|75.3
|2010–2015
|81.6
|-
|1980–1985
|76.0
|
|
|}
Source: ''UN World Population Prospects''

;Life expectancy at birth
:
:total population: 82 years. Country comparison to the world: 22nd
:male: 79.9 years
:female: 84.1 years (2018 est.)
;Death rate
:
:8 deaths/1,000 population (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 90th

=== Age structure ===
:
:''0–14 years:'' 18.1% (male 495,403 /female 471,014) (2018 est.)
:''15–24 years:'' 12.3% (male 340,672 /female 324,088)
:''25–54 years:'' 41.0% (male 1,136,373 /female 1,065,138)
:''55–64 years:'' 11.7% (male 318,898 /female 310,668)
:''65 years and over:'' 16.9% (male 420,178 /female 489,759)

;Median age
:
:total: 39.3 years. Country comparison to the world: 55th
:male: 38.6 years
:female: 40 years (2018 est.)

=== Population density ===
;Urbanization:
:urban population: 82.2% of total population (2018)
:rate of urbanization: 1.4% annual rate of change (2015–20 est.)
Note: data include Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands