Norway 
Facts
Population:
4,503,440 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
19.99% (male 462,673; female 437,514)
15-64 years:
64.91% (male 1,482,346; female 1,440,832)
65 years and over:
15.1% (male 282,307; female 397,768) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.49% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
12.6 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
9.83 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
2.11 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.07 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.06 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
1.03 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.71 male(s)/female
total population:
0.98 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
3.94 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
78.79 years
male:
75.87 years
female:
81.92 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.81 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
less than 100 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
1,600 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
8 (1999)
Nationality:
noun:
Norwegian(s)
adjective:
Norwegian
Ethnic groups:
Norwegian (Nordic, Alpine, Baltic), Sami 20,000
Religions:
Evangelical Lutheran 86% (state church), other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, other 1%, none and unknown 10% (1997)
Languages:
Norwegian (official)
note:
small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
100%
male:
NA%
female:
NA%
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $124.1 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
2.7% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $27,700 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
2%
industry:
25%
services:
73% (1999)
Population below poverty line:
NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
4.1%
highest 10%:
21.8% (1995)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.9% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
2.4 million (2000 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
services 74%, industry 22%, agriculture, forestry, and fishing 4% (1995)
Unemployment rate:
3% (2000 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$71.7 billion
expenditures:
$57.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2000 est.)
Industries:
petroleum and gas, food processing, shipbuilding, pulp and paper products, metals, chemicals, timber, mining, textiles, fishing
Industrial production growth rate:
3% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:
121.084 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
0.63%
hydro:
99.11%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0.26% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
110.795 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
8.28 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
6.467 billion kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
barley, other grains, potatoes; beef, milk; fish
Exports:
$59.2 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:
petroleum and petroleum products, machinery and equipment, metals, chemicals, ships, fish
Exports - partners:
EU 73% (UK 17%, Germany 11%, Netherlands 10%, Sweden 9%), US 5% (1999)
Imports:
$35.2 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, chemicals, metals, foodstuffs
Imports - partners:
EU 66% (Sweden 15%, Germany 12%, UK 9%, Denmark 7%), US 10%, Japan (1999)
Debt - external:
$0 (Norway is a net external creditor)
Economic aid - donor:
ODA, $1.4 billion (1998)
Currency:
Norwegian krone (NOK)
Currency code:
NOK
Exchange rates:
Norwegian kroner per US dollar - 8.7784 (January 2001), 8.8018 (2000), 7.7992 (1999), 7.5451 (1998), 7.0734 (1997), 6.4498 (1996)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
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(Conservative), Trondheim
http://www.adresseavisen.no/
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http://www.aftenposten.no/
Arbeiderbladet
(Independent), Oslo
(Conservative), Bergen
http://www.bergens-tidende.no/
(Liberal), Oslo
http://www.dagbladet.no/
(Business), Oslo
http://www.dn.no/
Dagningen
Lillehammer
Norway in the News
In an article for Oslo's conservative Aftenposten, Harald Stanghelle reviews some of the controversy surrounding British and American claims about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass-destruction.
As a female Muslim stand-up comedian in Norway, 26-year-old Shabana Rehman is breaking a host of stereotypes at once.
World Press Review correspondents report on how journalists from newspapers around the world are reporting the war in Iraq.
To avoid boredom, Lars Svendsen, a 28-year-old writer, philosopher, and book reviewer, decided to become an expert on the subject. The result of his anti-boredom remedy is now available in book form as The Philosophy of Boredom.
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