Country comparison: Norway / Sweden

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

General information

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

Population

Details for Norway and Sweden

	Norway	Sweden
Population:	5,408,000	10,416,000
Inhabitants/km²:	14.0	23.3
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
Birth rate:	9.80 ‰	10.90 ‰
Death rate:	7.50 ‰	9.50 ‰
Migrationrate:	3.92 ‰	3.60 ‰

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	89
Civil rights:	99	100
Health:	90	85
Climate:	17	20
Cost of Living:	41	41
Popularity:	37	37

Economy

Details for Norway and Sweden

	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%)	124.56 %	109.31 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	36.20 %	49.10 %
Average income:	83,880 US$	59,540 US$
Corruption index:	16 (good)	17 (good)

	NOR: total	per 1000 inh.	SWE: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	482,175 M US$	89.15 M US$	635,664 M US$	61.03 M US$
Gross national product:	453,625 M US$	83.88 M US$	620,154 M US$	59.54 M US$
Exported goods:	199,074 M US$	36.81 M US$	290,793 M US$	27.92 M US$
Imported goods:	140,444 M US$	25.97 M US$	263,269 M US$	25.28 M US$
Gross debt:	122,175 M US$	22.59 M US$	227,749 M US$	21.87 M US$
Budget surplus:	23,730 M US$	4.39 M US$	-1,501 M US$	-0.14 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Norway and Sweden

	NOR: total	per 1000 inh.	SWE: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	94,902 km	17.55 km	573,134 km	55.03 km
Railways:	4,200 km	0.78 km	9,701 km	0.93 km
Waterways:	1,577 km	0.29 km	2,052 km	0.20 km
Harbours:	1,644	0.3040	370	0.0355
Passenger airports:	49	0.0091	40	0.0038

Energy balance

Details for Norway and Sweden

	NOR: total	per 1000 inh.	SWE: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	122.20 bn kWh	22.59 m kWh	133.50 bn kWh	12.82 m kWh
Energy production:	147.70 bn kWh	27.31 m kWh	152.90 bn kWh	14.68 m kWh
Energy export:	15.53 bn kWh	2.87 m kWh	26.02 bn kWh	2.50 m kWh
Energy imports:	5.74 bn kWh	1.06 m kWh	14.29 bn kWh	1.37 m kWh
CO2 emissions:	35.95 m t	6,647.17 t	35.00 m t	3,360.28 t

Telecommunication

Details for Norway and Sweden

	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	64	1,478,610	142
Mobile cellulars:	5,825,584	1077	12,791,840	1228
Internet server:	3,588,000	663	5,978,000	574
Internet users:	5,246,070	970	9,847,048	945
Broadband Internet:	2,387,661	441	4,175,604	401

Healthcare system

Details for Norway and Sweden

	Norway	Sweden
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	3.53	2.14
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.63	5.40
Diabetes:	5.3 %	4.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.03 ‰	0.04 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	89.0 %	72.0 %
Smokers:	16.2 %	24.0 %

Climate

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

	Norway	Sweden
Daytime temperatures:	9.0 °C	9.9 °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 %

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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