- ISO 3166
NO- Main language + region
nb-NO- Currency
- NOK · Norwegian Krone
- Region
- EMEA · EU/UK · Nordics
Norway
Norway has 5.5M people, and 5.5M of them are online. Norwegian Bokmål is the most widely spoken language at 100%, one of 4 languages CLDR lists here. Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian, and Norwegian Nynorsk are official nationally, and Northern Sami is official in part of the territory. A product shipping here defaults to nb-NO.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
5.5M
0%world median 81%100%
99% of 5.5M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$94,594
Higher than 95% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
99%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
4
Norwegian Bokmål 100% · Norwegian 100% · Norwegian Nynorsk 25%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 3 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
613
Very lowVery high
Very high proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
100%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Norway
share of 5.5M people
- Norwegian Bokmålofficial100%5.5M
- Norwegianofficial100%5.5M
- Norwegian Nynorskofficial25%1.4M
- Northern Samiregional0.3%16K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Norwegian Bokmål in 2 territories and 5.5M speakers in total; Norway holds 100% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Norwegian Bokmål profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (nb-NO).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21. april 2026
Short: 21.04.2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1 234,56 kr
1,234.56 in NOK · Norwegian Krone