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Kingdom of Norway
National name: Kongeriket Norge
Sovereign: King Harald V (1991)
Prime Minister: Kjell Magne Bondevik (1997)
Area: 125,049 sq. mi. (324,220 sq. km)
Population (1999 est.): 4,438,547 (average annual growth rate: 0.24%); birth rate: 12.5/1000; infant mortality rate: 5.0/1000; density per sq. mi.: 35
Capital and largest city (1995): Oslo, 483,401
Other large cities: Bergen, 221,717; Trondheim, 142,927; Stavanger, 103,496
Monetary unit: Krone
Languages: Two official forms of Norwegian: Bokmål and Nynorsk
Ethnicity/race: Germanic (Nordic, Alpine, Baltic), Lapps (Sami)
Religions: Evangelical Lutheran 87.8% (state church), other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3.8%, none 3.2%, unknown 5.2%
Literacy rate: 99%
Economic summary: GDP/PPP (1998 est.): $109 billion; $24,700 per capita. Real growth rate: 2.4%. Inflation: 2.3%. Unemployment: 2.6% (yearend 1997). Arable land: 3%. Agriculture: oats, other grains; beef, milk; fish. Labor force: 2.3 million (1998 est.); services, 71%; industry, 23%; agriculture, forestry, and fishing, 6% (1993). Industry: petroleum and gas, food processing, shipbuilding, pulp and paper products, metals, chemicals, timber, mining, textiles, fishing. Natural resources: petroleum, copper, natural gas, pyrites, nickel, iron ore, zinc, lead, fish, timber, hydropower. Exports: $39.8 billion (f.o.b., 1998): petroleum and petroleum products, machinery and equipment, metals, chemicals, ships, fish. Imports: $37.1 billion (f.o.b., 1998): machinery and equipment, chemicals, metals, foodstuffs. Major trading partners: EU (U.K., Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, France), U.S., Japan.
