GDP: purchasing power parity - $111.3 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 0.8% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $25,100 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
2.2%
industry:
26.3%
services:
71.5% (1998)
Population below poverty line: NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
4.1%
highest 10%:
21.2% (1991)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.8% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 2.7 million (1999 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: services 74%, industry 22%, agriculture, forestry, and fishing 4% (1995)
Unemployment rate: 2.9% (1999 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$69.7 billion
expenditures:
$60.1 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2000 est.)
Industries: petroleum and gas, food processing, shipbuilding?, pulp? and paper products, metals?, chemicals?, timber, mining, textile?s, fishing?
Industrial production growth rate: 0.7% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production: 115.485 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
0.58%
hydro:
99.16%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0.26% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 111.001 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 4.4 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 8 billion kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: barley?, other grains, potatoes; beef?, milk; fish
Exports: $47.3 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Exports - commodities: petroleum and petroleum products, machinery? and equipment, metals?, chemicals?, ships, fish
Exports - partners: European Union 77% (United Kingdom 17%, Germany 12%, Netherlands 10%, Sweden 10%, France 8%), United States 7% (1998)
Imports: $38.6 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, chemicals?, metals, foodstuffs
Imports - partners: European Union 69% (Sweden 15%, Germany 14%, United Kingdom 10%, Denmark 7%), United States 7%, Japan 4% (1998)
Debt - external: $0 (Norway is a net external creditor)
Economic aid - donor: ODA, $1.4 billion (1998)
Currency: 1 Norwegian krone (NKr) = 100 oere
Exchange rates: Norwegian kroner (NKr) per US$1 - 8.0129 (January 2000), 7.7992 (1999), 7.5451 (1998), 7.0734 (1997), 6.4498 (1996), 6.3352 (1995)
Fiscal year: calendar year