NA%

Household income or consumption by percentage share:

lowest 10%: 3.9% highest 10%: 23.4% (2000)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:

28 (2005)

Investment (gross fixed):

20.8% of GDP (2007 est.)

Budget:

revenues: $226.3 billion expenditures: $158.7 billion (2007 est.)

Fiscal year:

calendar year

Public debt:

83.1% of GDP (2007 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

0.8% (2007 est.)

Central bank discount rate:

6.25% (31 December 2007)

Commercial bank prime lending rate:

6.65% (31 December 2007)

Stock of money:

NA (31 December 2007)

Stock of quasi money:

NA (31 December 2007)

Stock of domestic credit:

NA (31 December 2007)

Agriculture - products:

barley, wheat, potatoes; pork, beef, veal, milk; fish

Industries:

petroleum and gas, food processing, shipbuilding, pulp and paper products, metals, chemicals, timber, mining, textiles, fishing

Industrial production growth rate:

0.1% (2007 est.)

Electricity - production:

135 billion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - consumption:

111.5 billion kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - exports:

15.32 billion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - imports:

5.284 billion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - production by source:

fossil fuel: 0.4% hydro: 99.3% nuclear: 0% other: 0.4% (2001)

Oil - production:

2.565 million bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - consumption:

224,500 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - exports:

2.714 million bbl/day (2005)

Oil - imports:

92,650 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - proved reserves:

6.865 billion bbl (1 January 2008 est.)

Natural gas - production:

92.6 billion cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:

6.5 billion cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - exports:

86.1 billion cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - imports:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:

2.241 trillion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)

Current account balance:

$64.07 billion (2007 est.)

Exports:

$140.3 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Exports - commodities:

petroleum and petroleum products, machinery and equipment, metals, chemicals, ships, fish

Exports - partners:

UK 26.3%, Germany 12.3%, Netherlands 10.2%, France 8%, Sweden 6.5%,
US 6.2% (2007)

Imports:

$77.24 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Imports - commodities:

machinery and equipment, chemicals, metals, foodstuffs

Imports - partners:

Sweden 14.7%, Germany 13.6%, UK 6.9%, Denmark 6.4%, China 6.1%, US 4.8%, Canada 4.3% (2007)

Economic aid - donor:

ODA, $2.954 billion (2006)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

$60.84 billion (2006 est.)

Debt - external:

$469.1 billion; note - Norway is a net external creditor (30 June 2007)

Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:

$62.63 billion (2007 est.)

Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:

$126.1 billion (2007 est.)

Market value of publicly traded shares:

$191 billion (2005)

Currency (code):

Norwegian krone (NOK)

Currency code: