Population on 1 January in Norway
Norway had 5,594,340 people on 1 January 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1960.
Norway, 2025
5,594,340
Change from 2024
+0.8%
European Union, 2025
450,646,971 peopleep (Source flag ep)
Position in 2025
22nd of 40
Population on 1 January in Norway over time
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People. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | Norway | European Union |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5,594,340 people | 450,646,971 peopleep (estimated, provisional) |
| 2024 | 5,550,203 people | 449,306,184 peopleep (estimated, provisional) |
| 2023 | 5,488,984 people | 447,695,350 peoplebep (break in time series, estimated, provisional) |
| 2022 | 5,425,270 people | 445,972,024 peopleep (estimated, provisional) |
| 2021 | 5,391,369 people | 445,891,011 peoplebep (break in time series, estimated, provisional) |
| 2020 | 5,367,580 people | 447,030,024 peoplee (estimated) |
| 2019 | 5,328,212 people | 446,149,924 people |
| 2018 | 5,295,619 people | 445,301,376 peoplee (estimated) |
| 2017 | 5,258,317 people | 444,670,605 peoplebe (break in time series, estimated) |
| 2016 | 5,213,985 people | 444,003,268 peoplee (estimated) |
| 2015 | 5,165,802 people | 442,924,865 peoplebe (break in time series, estimated) |
| 2014 | 5,109,056 people | 442,268,078 peoplebe (break in time series, estimated) |
| 2013 | 5,051,275 people | 441,739,930 peopleb (break in time series) |
| 2012 | 4,985,870 people | 440,552,661 peopleb (break in time series) |
| 2011 | 4,920,305 people | 439,942,305 peopleb (break in time series) |
| 2010 | 4,858,199 people | 440,660,421 peopleb (break in time series) |
| 2009 | 4,799,252 people | 440,047,892 people |
| 2008 | 4,737,171 people | 438,725,386 peopleb (break in time series) |
| 2007 | 4,681,134 people | 437,227,496 people |
| 2006 | 4,640,219 people | 435,816,236 people |
| 2005 | 4,606,363 people | 434,416,272 people |
| 2004 | 4,577,457 people | 432,762,039 people |
| 2003 | 4,552,252 people | 431,190,184 people |
| 2002 | 4,524,066 people | 429,723,142 people |
| 2001 | 4,503,436 people | 429,240,746 peopleb (break in time series) |
Flags: b break in time series; be break in time series, estimated; e estimated; bep break in time series, estimated, provisional; ep estimated, provisional . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- That is a change of +0.8% from 5,550,203 people in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 5,165,802 people, the figure has changed by +8.3%.
- Among the 40 countries with data for 2025, Norway has the 22nd highest value.
- The figure for the European Union in 2025 was 450,646,971 people.
More for Norway
All statistics for Norway
Population
5,610,870 people
2025 · World Bank
Median age of the population
40.8 years
2025 · Eurostat
Immigration
66,077 immigrants
2024 · Eurostat
Population by age and sex
5,594,340 people
2025 · Eurostat
Crude birth rate
9.9 per 1,000 people
2025 · Eurostat
Crude death rate
8.0 per 1,000 people
2025 · Eurostat