Country comparison Norway : Sweden

General information

	Norway	Sweden
Region:	Northern Europe	Northern Europe
Area:	385,203 km²	447,430 km²
Official language:	Norwegian	Swedish
Government form:	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Independent since:	1905 AD	836 AD
Capital:	Oslo	Stockholm

Population

	Norway	Sweden
Population:	5,379,000	10,353,000
Inhabitants/km²:	14.0	23.1
Life expectancy males:	Ø 82 years	Ø 81 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 84 years
Average age:	Ø 39.5 years	Ø 41.1 years
Birthrate:	10.20 ‰	11.10 ‰
Deathrate:	7.60 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	3.95 ‰	4.87 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Norway	Sweden
Political stability:	88	87
Civil rights:	99	99
Health:	90	85
Climate:	16	20
Cost of Living:	39	39
Popularity:	37	39

Economy

	Norway	Sweden
Currency:	Norwegian Krone (1 NOK = 100 Øre)	Swedish Krone (1 SEK =100 Öre)
Unemployment rate:	5.0 %	8.7 %
Inflation rate:	3.48 %	2.16 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	123.85 %	109.82 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	36.20 %	49.10 %
Average income:	78,290 US$	54,050 US$
Corruption index:	85 (good)	85 (good)

	NOR: total	per 1000 inh.	SWE: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	362,198 M US$	67.33 M US$	541,220 M US$	52.27 M US$
Gross national product:	421,184 M US$	78.29 M US$	559,624 M US$	54.05 M US$
Exported goods:	116,718 M US$	21.70 M US$	243,711 M US$	23.54 M US$
Imported goods:	119,632 M US$	22.24 M US$	218,674 M US$	21.12 M US$
Gross debt:	103,302 M €	19.20 M €	192,567 M €	18.60 M €
Budget surplus:	20,065 M €	3.73 M €	-1,269 M €	-0.12 M €

Infrastructure

	NOR: total	per 1000 inh.	SWE: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	94,902 km	17.64 km	573,134 km	55.36 km
Railways:	4,200 km	0.78 km	9,701 km	0.94 km
Waterways:	1,577 km	0.29 km	2,052 km	0.20 km
Harbours:	1,644	0.306	370	0.036
Airports:	95	0.018	231	0.022

Energy balance

	NOR: total	per 1000 inh.	SWE: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	122.20 bn kWh	22.72 m kWh	133.50 bn kWh	12.89 m kWh
Energy production:	147.70 bn kWh	27.46 m kWh	152.90 bn kWh	14.77 m kWh
Energy export:	15.53 bn kWh	2.89 m kWh	26.02 bn kWh	2.51 m kWh
Energy imports:	5.74 bn kWh	1.07 m kWh	14.29 bn kWh	1.38 m kWh
CO2 emissions:	37.35 m t	6,943.06 t	36.00 m t	3,477.10 t

Telecommunication

	Norway	Sweden
International dialing:	+47	+46
Internet domain:	.no	.se

	NOR total	NOR per 1000 inh.	SWE total	SWE per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	348,808	65	1,624,271	157
Mobile cellulars:	5,825,584	1083	12,959,858	1252
Internet server:	3,588,000	667	5,978,000	577
Internet users:	5,218,091	970	9,788,085	945
Broadband Internet:	2,387,661	444	4,179,574	404

Healthcare system

	Norway	Sweden
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	3.53	2.14
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.63	5.40
Diabetes:	5.3 %	4.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.0 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	85.0 %	61.0 %
Smokers:	17.1 %	24.8 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Norway and Sweden

	Norway	Sweden
Daytime temperatures:	8.9 °C	9.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	2.1 °C	2.1 °C
Water temperature:	8.8 °C	8.4 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	80 %
Rain days:	11.5	9.2
Sunshine hours per day:	4.2	5.0

Native languages

	Norway	Sweden
Norwegian:	96.6 %	0.5 %
Swedish:	0.3 %	89.5 %
Finnish:	n/a	2.4 %
North Slavic languages:	n/a	1.3 %
Arabic:	n/a	0.8 %
Spanish:	n/a	0.6 %
English:	0.5 %	n/a
Danish:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	2.2 %	4.9 %

Religions

	Norway	Sweden
Christianity:	87.8 %	87.0 %
Islam:	2.3 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	0.2 %
other:	9.9 %	12.8 %