NUTS-3 NO073 · Norway
Population
75,0422025
GDP
—
Unemployment· NUTS-2 source
3.5%2025
Employment· NUTS-2 source
79.4%2025
Active firms· FR-only
—
Cadastral parcels· FR-only
—
Area
48,328.2 km²
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NO073
Composite intelligence · 0–100 EU-percentile scores
Opportunity Indexscale + growth + access + structure
33.7
Quality of Lifeprosperity, health, safety, environment
69.0
Connectivitytransit + air + market access
33.3
Talent & Human Capitalskills, learning, knowledge workers
72.8
Growth Momentumrecent GDP / employment trajectory
32.0
Derived comparisons
GDP per capita
—
Population density
2 /km²
Parcels per 1k pop
FR-only
Firms per 1k pop
FR-only
All indicators · 49 metrics (Eurostat, all-EU)
Economy
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
€26,600
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy) ·N2
€7,085M
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C) ·N2
€357M
Compensation of employees (total wage bill) ·N2
€12,839M
Labour market
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source) ·N2
80.2%
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
1
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
14 /M
R&D expenditure as % of GDP ·N2
1.9%
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total) ·N2
2.2%
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64 ·N2
43.7%
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool) ·N2
46.8%
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks) ·N2
20.3%
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force) ·N2
26.1%
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force) ·N2
9.7%
Digital
Households with internet access ·N2
98.8%
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
810,660
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants ·N2
538 /1k
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
1,072
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
1,429
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
181
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
0
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
48,691
Population aged 65+
15,069
Population aged under 15
11,282
Median age of population
42.2 yrs
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
30.9%
Crude rate of total population change
-0.1 /1k
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-0.6 /1k
Crude birth rate
9.6 /1k
Crude death rate
9.1 /1k
Live births
721
Deaths
684
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
54.1%
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.52
Population density (persons per km²)
2 /km²
Social
At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) ·N2
20.2%
Life expectancy at birth ·N2
82.6 yrs
Health
Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants ·N2
412 /100k
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate) ·N2
866 /100k
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate) ·N2
216 /100k
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
1.3 /100k
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
2.7 /100k
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
933 /100k
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants ·N2
33 /M
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
630 m
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
0 days/yr
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
241 days/yr
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr