ACOG - Norway  - IBM

Geography

Location: Northern Europe, bordering the North Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean,west of Sweden

Area:
total area: 324,220 sq km
land area: 307,860 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than New Mexico

Land boundaries: total 2,515 km, Finland 729 km, Sweden 1,619 km, Russia 167 km

Coastline: 21,925 km


People

Population: 4,330,951 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 19% (female 390,344; male 444,570)
15-64 years: 65% (female 1,375,493; male 1,424,027)
65 years and over: 16% (female 408,675; male 287,842)

Population growth rate: 0.37% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 12.86 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 10.35 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 1.15 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 6.1 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 77.61 years
male: 74.26 years
female: 81.15 years

Total fertility rate: 1.76 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Germanic (Nordic, Alpine, Baltic), Lapps (Sami) 20,000

Religions: Evangelical Lutheran 87.8% (state church), other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3.8%, none 3.2%, unknown 5.2% (1980)

Languages: Norwegian (official)

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1976 est.)
total population: 99%
male:
female:


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Kingdom of Norway
conventional short form: Norway

Type: constitutional monarchy

Capital: Oslo

Independence: 26 October 1905 (from Sweden)

Constitution: 17 May 1814, modified in 1884


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $95.7 billion

National product real growth rate: 5.5%

National product per capita: $22,170

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.3%

Unemployment rate: 8.4%

Electricity:
capacity: 27,280,000 kW
production: 118 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 23,735 kWh



Olympic Factoid
An estimated 5.3 million visted Centennial Olympic Park between opening day - 13 July - and closing day - 4 August, making the park the most single most visited Olympic site during the Games.