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IndicatorNORNorwayEurope & Central Asia
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.95rank #8
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile87.5rank #7
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.86rank #2
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.84rank #2
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.95rank #7
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile87.2rank #6
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.95rank #8
Military spending% GDP2.1%rank #50
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.64rank #6
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile81.3rank #44
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile81.2rank #12
Rule of Law0-100 percentile90.5rank #3
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.99rank #6
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.89rank #2
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.85rank #3
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile90.6rank #1
Women in parliament% seats40.2%rank #28
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.93rank #13
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment2.5%rank #148
Agriculture value added% GDP1.6%rank #133
Annual working hours per workerhours1,412.1rank #126
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker572,646.4rank #10
Current account balance% GDP14%rank #6
Employment-to-population ratio%61.9%rank #57
FDI net inflows% GDP-1.5%rank #91
GDPcurrent US$530.76Brank #30
GDP growth%1.1%rank #155
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$94,594.2rank #6
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $95,173.4rank #6
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $112,710rank #2
Government expenditure% GDP34.5%rank #24
Gross capital formation% GDP23.2%rank #63
Gross savings% GDP37.3%rank #5
High-technology exports% manuf. exports25.4%rank #18
Human capital indexindex3.7rank #11
Industry value added% GDP34.5%rank #29
Inflation%3.1%rank #84
Labour force participation rate%65.1%rank #56
Personal remittances received% GDP0.19%rank #79
R&D expenditure% GDP1.9%rank #19
Researchers in R&Dper million7,450.6rank #6
Tax revenue% GDP24.5%rank #15
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)1rank #5
Trade openness% GDP79.1%rank #71
Unemployment% labor force4.6%rank #78
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%5%rank #85
Vulnerable employment% employment4.2%rank #9
Youth unemployment% ages 15-2413.4%rank #95
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-2413.8%rank #99
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop100%rank #1
Basic sanitation access% pop98%rank #55
Child mortalityper 1000.25rank #6
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal3,475.6rank #24
DTP3 immunization coverage%97%rank #3
Health spending% GDP9.4%rank #36
Infant mortalityper 1k births2rank #5
Life expectancyyears83.2rank #19
Maternal mortalityper 100k1rank #1
Measles immunization% children96%rank #4
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%96%rank #4
Physiciansper 1k5rank #5
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m35.5rank #18
Road traffic deathsper 100k2.1rank #6
Smoking prevalence% adults12.9%rank #40
Suicide mortality rateper 100k13.2rank #137
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k3.3rank #19
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births2.5rank #10
Undernourishment% pop2.5%rank #1
Education
Education spending% GDP5.4%rank #33
Expected years of schoolingyears18.8rank #12
Mean years of schoolingyears13.1rank #13
Primary completion rate% relevant age98.7%rank #33
Primary enrollment% gross98.5%rank #74
Secondary enrollment% gross116.3%rank #12
Tertiary enrollment% gross95.5%rank #8
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,0009.7rank #157
Fertility ratebirths/woman1.5rank #158
Median age of populationyears39.5rank #49
Net migration rateper 1,0009.7rank #24
Populationpeople5.61Mrank #118
Population growth%0.69%rank #122
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years86.8rank #17
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands5,899.8rank #122
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age53.9rank #117
Urban population%83.6%rank #38
Climate
CO₂ emissionst37.18Mrank #65
CO₂ per capitat6.7rank #42
Electricity access% pop100%rank #1
Electricity from coal% generation0%rank #1
Electricity from hydro% generation90%rank #4
Electricity from solar% generation0.33%rank #78
Electricity from wind% generation8.4%rank #32
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita23,673.1rank #2
Forest area% land33.5%rank #98
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita9rank #149
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh28.1rank #4
Renewable electricity%99%rank #2
Renewable energy share%61.4%rank #33
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e49.5rank #100
Society
Asylum seekerspeople32rank #13
Extreme poverty% pop0.2%rank #3
Female labor participation%62.1%rank #36
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 10045.2rank #11
Gender Development Indexratio1rank #29
Gender Inequality Index0-10rank #2
Gini indexindex26.5rank #4
Homicide rateper 100k0.72rank #16
Human Development Index0-10.97rank #2
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.91rank #2
Internet users% pop99%rank #5
Life satisfaction0-107.2rank #6
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.72rank #39
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #71
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #21
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #24
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #16
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people124,006rank #46
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people20rank #11
Youth NEET rate%6%rank #11
Risk
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths0rank #1
Hazard & exposure0-101.9rank #14
Human hazard & exposure0-100.9rank #10
INFORM risk score0-101.9rank #8
Lack of coping capacity0-101.5rank #7
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-101.2rank #9
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-101.8rank #5
Natural hazard & exposure0-102.8rank #15
Socio-economic vulnerability0-100.1rank #2
Vulnerability0-102.5rank #14
Vulnerable groups0-104.4rank #39
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