OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Norway 2022
Basic statistics of Norway
2020 or latest available year (OECD values in parentheses)a
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PEOPLE AND SOCIETY |
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Population (million) |
5 |
Population density per km2 |
9 |
(36) |
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Share of population by type of region: |
Population compound annual growth rate, latest 5 years |
0.8 |
(0.6) |
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Predominantly urban (%) |
24 |
(48) |
Income inequality (Gini coefficient) |
0.26 |
(0.33) |
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Intermediate (%) |
50 |
(28) |
Poverty rate (% of pop. with less than 50% median income) |
8 |
(12) |
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Rural (%) |
26 |
(24) |
Life expectancy |
83 |
(81) |
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ECONOMY AND EXTERNAL ACCOUNTS |
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Total GDP (National currency, billion) |
3 413 |
Imports of goods and services (% of GDP) |
33 |
(29) |
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Total GDP (USD, billion, current prices and PPPs) |
340 |
Main exports (% of total merchandise exports) |
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GDP compound annual real growth rate, latest 5 years |
0.9 |
(0.7) |
Petroleum and related products |
32 |
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GDP per capita (1 000 USD current PPPs) |
63 |
(45) |
Gas, natural and manufactured |
17 |
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Value added shares (%) |
Fish, crustaceans, molluscs |
13 |
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Agriculture, forestry and fishing |
2 |
(2) |
Main imports (% of total merchandise imports) |
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Industry including construction |
33 |
(24) |
Road vehicles |
11 |
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Services |
65 |
(74) |
Electrical machinery and transport equipment |
6 |
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Exports of goods and services (% of GDP) |
38 |
(29) |
Other industrial machinery |
5 |
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GENERAL GOVERNMENT Percentage of GDP |
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Expenditure |
58.4 |
(40.8) |
Education expenditure |
5.6 |
(5.0) |
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Revenue |
55.0 |
(37.7) |
Health expenditure |
8.7 |
(7.8) |
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Gross financial debt |
53.6 |
(109.2) |
Environment protection expenditure |
0.9 |
(0.5) |
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Fiscal balance |
-3.4 |
-(3.2) |
Environmental taxes: (% of GDP) |
2.0 |
(1.5) |
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(% of total tax revenue) |
5.1 |
(5.0) |
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LABOUR MARKET, SKILLS AND INNOVATION |
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Unemployment rate (% of civilian labour force) |
4.4 |
(7.1) |
Patent applications (% of all technologies)b Environment-related technologies |
12 |
(11) |
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Tertiary educational attainment of 25-64 year-olds (%) |
45 |
(40) |
Environmental management |
5 |
(3) |
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Gross expenditure on R&D, % of GDP |
2.2 |
(2.5) |
Climate change mitigation technologies |
10 |
(10) |
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Climate adaptation technologies |
7 |
(1) |
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ENVIRONMENT |
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Total energy supply (TES) intensity: TES per capita (toe/cap.) |
5.3 |
(3.7) |
Road vehicle stock (vehicles./100 inhabitants) |
76 |
(67) |
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TES per GDP (toe/1 000 USD, 2015 PPPs) |
0.09 |
(0.09) |
Water stress (abstraction as % of available resources) |
.. |
(8.6) |
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Renewables (% of TPES) |
51 |
(12) |
Water abstraction per capita (m3/cap./year) |
.. |
(696) |
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Carbon intensity (energy-related CO2): |
Municipal waste per capita, (kg/capita) |
772 |
(538) |
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Emissions per capita (t/cap.) |
6.7 |
(8.3) |
Material productivity (USD, 2015 PPPs/DMC, kg) |
2.0 |
(2.9) |
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Emissions per GDP (t/1 000 USD, 2015 PPP) |
0.11 |
(0.19) |
Land area (1 000 km2) |
365 |
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GHG intensity:c |
% of arable land and permanent crops |
2 |
(11) |
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Emissions per capita (tCO2-eq/cap.) |
9.4 |
(11.3) |
% of permanent meadows and pastures |
0 |
(23) |
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Emissions per GDP (tCO2-eq/cap. USD, 2015 PPP) |
0.15 |
(0.26) |
% of forest area |
33 |
(33) |
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Mean population exposure to air pollution (PM2.5), µg/m3 |
6.7 |
(13.9) |
% of other land (built-up and other land) |
64 |
(32) |
a. Values earlier than 2014 are not taken into consideration. OECD value: where the OECD aggregate is not provided in the source database, a simple OECD average of the latest available data is calculated where data exist for a significant number of countries.
b. Higher-value inventions that have sought protection in at least two jurisdictions. Average of latest three years.
c. Excluding emissions/removals from land use, land-use change and forestry.
Source: Calculations based on data extracted from databases of the OECD, IEA/OECD, EUROSTAT and the World Bank.