Country comparison: Finland / Norway

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Finland and Norway. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Finland	Norway
Region:	Northern Europe	Northern Europe
Area:	338,450 km²	385,203 km²
National language:	Finnish, Swedish	Norwegian
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Independent since:	1917 AD	1905 AD
Capital:	Helsinki	Oslo

Population

Details for Finland and Norway

	Finland	Norway
Population:	5,541,000	5,408,000
Inhabitants/km²:	16.4	14.0
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 82 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 85 years
Average age:	Ø 42.8 years	Ø 39.5 years
Birth rate:	9.00 ‰	10.40 ‰
Death rate:	10.40 ‰	7.80 ‰
Migrationrate:	2.25 ‰	3.89 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Finland	Norway
Political stability:	84	90
Civil rights:	100	99
Health:	87	90
Climate:	17	16
Cost of Living:	46	35
Popularity:	32	37

Economy

Details for Finland and Norway

	Finland	Norway
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Norwegian krone (1 NOK =100 Øre)
Unemployment rate:	6.8 %	3.2 %
Inflation rate:	7.12 %	5.76 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	98.26 %	112.98 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	36.60 %	36.20 %
Average income:	53,510 US$	83,880 US$
Government debt (% of GDP):	66.19 %	43.41 %
Government debt (% of GDP):	55.31 %	15.75 %
Corruption index:	13 (good)	16 (good)

	FIN: total	per 1000 inh.	NOR: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	297,302 M US$	53.65 M US$	482,175 M US$	89.15 M US$
Gross national product:	296,473 M US$	53.51 M US$	453,625 M US$	83.88 M US$
Exported goods:	125,788 M US$	22.70 M US$	321,076 M US$	59.37 M US$
Imported goods:	133,609 M US$	24.11 M US$	156,924 M US$	29.02 M US$
Budget surplus:	-2,408 M US$	-0.43 M US$	21,128 M US$	3.91 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Finland and Norway

	FIN: total	per 1000 inh.	NOR: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	454,000 km	81.93 km	94,902 km	17.55 km
Railways:	5,923 km	1.07 km	4,200 km	0.78 km
Waterways:	8,000 km	1.44 km	1,577 km	0.29 km
Harbours:	272	0.0491	1,644	0.3040
Passenger airports:	20	0.0036	49	0.0091

Energy balance

Details for Finland and Norway

	FIN: total	per 1000 inh.	NOR: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	178.86 bn kWh	32.28 m kWh	336.03 bn kWh	62.13 m kWh
Energy consumption:	79.36 bn kWh	14.32 m kWh	124.29 bn kWh	22.98 m kWh
Energy production:	66.98 bn kWh	12.09 m kWh	153.67 bn kWh	28.41 m kWh
Energy export:	6.67 bn kWh	1.20 m kWh	24.97 bn kWh	4.62 m kWh
Energy imports:	21.62 bn kWh	3.90 m kWh	4.50 bn kWh	831,311.76 kWh
CO2 emissions:	40.71 m t	7,346.45 t	35.95 m t	6,646.50 t

Telecommunication

Details for Finland and Norway

	Finland	Norway
International dialing:	+358	+47
Internet domain:	.fi	.no

	FIN total	FIN per 1000 inh.	NOR total	NOR per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	207,000	37	348,808	64
Mobile cellulars:	7,150,000	1290	5,825,584	1077
Internet server:	4,763,000	860	3,588,000	663
Internet users:	5,142,510	928	5,354,237	990
Broadband Internet:	1,864,000	336	2,387,661	441

Healthcare system

Details for Finland and Norway

	Finland	Norway
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	3.61	3.53
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.81	4.63
Diabetes:	5.6 %	5.3 %
HIV:	0.07 %	0.02 %
Tuberculosis:	0.04 ‰	0.03 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	25.0 %	89.0 %
Smokers:	21.6 %	16.2 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Finland and Norway

	Finland	Norway
Daytime temperatures:	8.3 °C	9.0 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	0.5 °C	2.1 °C
Water temperature:	6.8 °C	8.8 °C
Rel. humidity:	81 %	78 %
Rain days:	9.5	11.5
Sunshine hours per day:	4.6	4.2

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
Norway
Finland

Native languages

	Finland	Norway
Norwegian:	n/a	96.6 %
Finnish:	93.2 %	n/a
Swedish:	5.5 %	0.3 %
Russian:	0.9 %	n/a
English:	n/a	0.5 %
Danish:	n/a	0.4 %
other:	0.4 %	2.2 %

Religions

	Finland	Norway
State religion:	none	Norwegian Church (Evangelical Lutheran)
Christianity:	80.6 %	87.8 %
Nondenominational:	19.2 %	n/a
Islam:	n/a	2.3 %
other:	0.2 %	9.9 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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