Editing Norway (section)

=== Population ===
[[File:Annual population growth of Norway.svg|upright=1.2|thumb|left|Annual [[population growth]] in Norway 1951–2016, in thousands]]

Norway's population was 5,585,044 people in the fourth quarter of 2024.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Befolkningen|url=https://www.ssb.no/befolkning/faktaside/befolkningen|access-date=25 November 2020|website=ssb.no|language=no|archive-date=23 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210323174146/https://www.ssb.no/befolkning/faktaside/befolkningen|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Norwegians]] are an ethnic North [[Germanic peoples|Germanic]] people. The [[total fertility rate]] (TFR) in 2023 was estimated at 1.40 children born per woman,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/nokkeltall|title=Key figures|website=ssb.no|language=en|access-date=26 June 2019|archive-date=6 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706220530/https://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/nokkeltall|url-status=live}}</ref> below the replacement rate of 2.1, it remains considerably below the high of 4.69 children born per woman in 1877.<ref>{{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 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807220310/https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-born-per-woman?year=1800&country=NOR|archive-date=7 August 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2024 the [[median age]] of the Norwegian population was 40 years.<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 February 2025 |title=Mean and median age in municipalities, counties and the entire populace (M) 2000 - 2025 |url=https://www.ssb.no/en/statbank/table/13536 |access-date=29 March 2025 |website=Statistics Norway}}</ref>

The [[Sámi people]] are indigenous to the Far North and have traditionally inhabited central and northern parts of Norway and Sweden, as well as areas in northern Finland and in Russia on the [[Kola Peninsula]]. Another national minority are the [[Kven people]], descendants of Finnish-speaking people who migrated to northern Norway from the 18th up to the 20th century. From the 19th century up to the 1970s, the Norwegian government tried to assimilate both the Sámi and the Kven, encouraging them to adopt the majority language, culture and religion.<ref>Eivind Bråstad Jensen. 1991. Fra fornorskningspolitikk mot kulturelt mangfold. Nordkalott-Forlaget.</ref> Because of this "[[Norwegianization]] process", many families of Sámi or Kven ancestry now identify as ethnic Norwegian.<ref>I. Bjørklund, T. Brantenberg, H. Eidheim, J.A. Kalstad and D. Storm. 2002. ''Australian Indigenous Law Reporter ''(AILR) 1 7(1)</ref>

The national minorities of Norway are Kvens, [[Jews]], [[Forest Finns]], and [[Romani people]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.regjeringen.no/en/topics/indigenous-peoples-and-minorities/national-minorities/id1404/#:~:text=Groups%20with%20a%20long%2Dstanding,Roma%20and%20Romani%20people%2FTaters.|title= National minorities - regjeringen.no|date= 11 January 2007|access-date= 4 January 2024|archive-date= 3 February 2024|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240203202646/https://www.regjeringen.no/en/topics/indigenous-peoples-and-minorities/national-minorities/id1404/#:~:text=Groups%20with%20a%20long%2Dstanding,Roma%20and%20Romani%20people%2FTaters.|url-status= live}}</ref>

In 2017, Norway's population ranked first on the [[World Happiness Report]], and in 2025, it ranked seventh.<ref name="Rankin 2017">{{cite web | last=Rankin | first=Jennifer | title=Happiness is on the wane in the US, UN global report finds | website=the Guardian | date=20 March 2017 | url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/20/norway-ousts-denmark-as-worlds-happiest-country-un-report | access-date=22 March 2023 | archive-date=16 August 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230816175820/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/20/norway-ousts-denmark-as-worlds-happiest-country-un-report | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hunter |first=Marnie |date=2025-03-20 |title=These are the world's happiest countries in 2025 |url=https://edition.cnn.com/travel/worlds-happiest-countries-2025-wellness/index.html#:~:text=Finland,%20Denmark,%20Iceland%20and%20Sweden,role%20too,%20according%20to%20Helliwell. |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref>
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