Norway
Kingdom of Norway
- Region
- Europe · Northern Europe
- Capital
- Oslo
- Population
- 5,610,870 (2025)
- Government
- parliamentary constitutional monarchy
- Currency
- Norwegian krone (NOK)
- Official languages
- Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Sami
- Spoken languages
- Bokmal Norwegian (official), Nynorsk Norwegian (official), small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 323,802 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- EFTA, IMF, NATO, OECD, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Finland , Sweden , Russia
Political stability
81 / 100
Economic stability
79 / 100
Population stability
54 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- natural gas, crude petroleum, fish, refined petroleum, aluminum (2023)
- Key imports
- cars, refined petroleum, ships, nickel, garments (2023)
- Natural resources
- petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, titanium, pyrites, nickel, fish, timber, hydropower
- Primary route
- North Sea–Baltic feeder network into Rotterdam, Hamburg, and Antwerp
- Secondary route
- Transatlantic services to North America
The xin.bz view
- Norway is now the largest single gas supplier to the EU and UK, and the new 15-year Uniper–Equinor agreement (30+ TWh, ~2.8B m³/year from 2027) locks pipeline gas in as one of the geographic pillars of Europe’s winter system.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño Is Increasing the World's Need for Eurasia — Geopolitics Will Decide What Gets Through
Russia's ~60M t exportable grain, Kazakh wheat and uranium, Belarusian potash, Turkmen gas, and the Middle Corridor — El Niño raises the world's need for Eurasia while geopolitics decides what gets through.
El Niño Is Arriving as Western Europe Rebuilds Its Water Reserves — While Energy and Arctic Trade Reprice the Atlantic Economy
The Rhine recovering from record lows, England 71% in drought, French crops down hard, Qatar's LNG collapse pushing Europe to U.S. gas, and Iceland and Greenland turning the Atlantic into Western Europe's organizing system.
Vessel-Days Are Becoming the Scarce Asset in Global Shipping
The merchant fleet is growing while effective capacity tightens — Hormuz detours, Panama slot cuts, war-risk insurance, officer shortages and drydocking are consuming the ship-days that move cargo.
Commodity Deep Dive ·
Fish Meal Is the High-Protein Feed Commodity Whose Global Supply Can Turn on One Peruvian Fishery
Fish meal deep dive — Peru's anchovy fishery supplies ~20% of a 5.1M t market, the 2026 season stopped at 25% of quota under a 120-day national emergency, China takes 78% of exports, and prices hit $2,105/mt.
Future Insight ·
Rearming the World Is Becoming a Race for Explosives, Factories, Critical Minerals, and Trusted Supply Chains
Future Insights deep dive — the 2026–2032 global rearmament cycle: a ~2.6 million tonne military replacement obligation, and the industrial race in explosives, propellant, rare-earth magnets, and trusted supply chains.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.