Population Statistics

Population: 4,681,100

Enthic groups: Norwegians, Arabs, Swedes, Danes, Poles, Germans, Britons, and Pakistanis.

Languages: Norwegian, Finnish, South Sami, Lule Sami, North Sami and Kven.

Growth rate: 0.341%

Infant mortality: 3.1 deaths/1,000 live births

Death rate: 9%

Life expectancy: 79.25 years

Literacy rate: 15 and over can read and write

Age structure: 0–14 years: 19.7% (male 466,243; female 443,075)
15–64 years: 65.6% (male 1,234,384; female 1,486,887)
65 years and over: 14.7% (male 285,389; female 392,331)

Religions: Christianity 4,109,595 85.6%
Lutheranism 3,944,337 82.1%
Catholicism 57,348 1.1%
Pentecostalism 39,590 0.8%
Non-denominational 20,238 0.4%
Jehovah's Witnesses 14,976 0.3%
Methodism 10,974 0.2%
Baptism 9,382 0.1%
Orthodoxy 7,664 0.1%
Seventh-day Adventist Church 5,086 0.1%
Other religions 689,657 14.3%
Non religious 493,142 11.9%
Islam 92,744 1.9%
Norwegian Humanist Association 81,124 1.6%
Buddhism 12,252 0.2%
Hinduism 5,238 0.1%