Employment Rate / Norway
Norway Employment Rate
Norway employment rate data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 62.56%.
COUNTRY: Norway
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-18 03:30:08
GM ECONOMY RATING
Norway · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BBB
73 / 100
Good stability
Fiscal stability
15.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
13.0 / 20
External stability
8.0 / 15
Financial robustness
14.0 / 15
Structural stability
14.0 / 15
Future capacity
9.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
3.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Norway · employment rate data as percent of GDP.
Latest
62.56%
Previous
63.20%
Range avg.
63.17%
Rank
32
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CountryNorway
IndicatorEmployment Rate
62.56%2025 · Rank 32
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Norway recorded 62.56% for Employment Rate in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.64 percentage points, from 63.20% to 62.56%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (63.17%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 62.56% in 2025 and the high was 63.83% in 2022.
Comparison
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