Demographics of Eastern Norway

See also: Demographics of Norway

Statistics Norway demographic statistics

Historical populations
Year	Pop.	±%
1769	329,041	—
1951	1,584,045	+381.4%
1960	1,733,346	+9.4%
1970	1,895,148	+9.3%
1980	1,982,131	+4.6%
1990	2,064,971	+4.2%
2000	2,207,164	+6.9%
2010	2,430,512	+10.1%
2020	2,708,720	+11.4%
2030	2,970,713	+9.7%
Source: Statistics Norway [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16].

The following demographic statistics are from the Statistics Norway, unless otherwise indicated.

Age and sex distribution

Age structure

Norway

(2005 est.)
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)

Eastern Norway

(2009 est.)
0–14 years: 18.6% (male 226,334; female 214,775)
15–64 years: 64.5% (male 765,005; female 759,737)
65 years and over: 16.9% (male 150,656; female 201,963)

Population

• • 2,207,164 (January 1, 2000)
  • 2,410,630 (July 1,2009)
• Population growth
  • 203,466 (8.44 %)

Population - comparative

slightly larger than Latvia, but slightly smaller than Mongolia and Jamaica.

Population growth rate

1.59% (in 2008)

Population growth rate - comparative

slightly larger than India, but slightly smaller than Turkmenistan.

Total fertility rate

1.85 children born/woman (2007)

Language

Main article: Norwegian language

Literacy

definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 100%
male: NA%
female: NA%