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Men on top as Norway nears five million

Norway is home to 12,000 more men than women, new population figures show, with the country’s male dominance increasing rapidly since last year.

At the start of the new year, 2,498,900 men and 2,487,000 women were registered as living in Norway, according to fresh figures from Statistics Norway (SSB).

Just a year earlier, Norway’s male surplus stood at 1,400.

The country’s gender balance has shifted markedly since the population reached four million in 1975. At that time there were 25,000 more women than men in Norway.  

At the end of 2011, a total of 4,985,900 people were living in Norway. Statistics Norway has calculated that the population is likely to reach five million on March 19th.

Viewed in pure numbers, Norway’s population grew at its fastest ever rate in 2011, with 65,000 more people living in the country than the year before. Not since 1920 has the population grown so quickly in percentage terms.

Immigration accounted for 70 percent of the increase last year.

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POPULATION

Denmark expects twice as many people over 80 years old in 2050

More than twice as many people in Denmark will be over 80 years old in 2050 compared to the number of senior citizens in the country today.

Denmark expects twice as many people over 80 years old in 2050
By 2050, a much larger proportion of Denmark's population will be over 80 years old. File photo: Henning Bagger/Ritzau Scanpix

A new population projection from national agency Statistics Denmark predicts 431,000 people of the age of 80 in Denmark in 2030.

That will increase to 617,000 by 2050, around 10 percent of the population.

Today, Denmark has around 282,000 over-80s in its population, which is around 5 percent of the population.

A large increase in the number of elderly persons is expected to present Denmark’s social welfare system with economic challenges, with larger numbers likely to need care and practical help.

In its report, Statistics Denmark writes that the “greatest (population) growth going forward is expected to take place amongst the oldest age groups”.

Other age groups are not expected to greatly change their proportion of the population during the period covered by the projection, the agency writes.

The overall population is expected to grow by 0.4 percent by 2028. After that, growth will plateau, giving a growth of 0.12 percent in 2050. It is then forecast to increase again, reaching 0.2 percent in 2060.

Major factors affecting the population size – birth rates, death rates and immigration – are all predicted to vary at different times throughout the period.

But Statistics Denmark writes that it expects a deficit in the number of births between 2044 and 2053.

The 2021 projection does not take into account the potential long-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the population. That is because “no sufficient basis of knowledge and experience is yet available,” the statistics bureau writes.

However, the agency noted that the biggest impact of the pandemic on population size in 2020 was its restrictive effect on immigration and emigration.

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