Norway
Internet users in Norway
Internet users in Norway: 0.7% in 1990 and 99% in 2024, by ITU estimates.
- Latest, 2024
- 99%
- Since 1990
- +98.3 percentage points
- Rank, 2024
- 7 of 182
- counting from the highest
- World, 2024
- 71.2%
% of people · ITU
What the numbers say
- The highest was 99% in 2021, the lowest 0.7% in 1990.
Every year
% of people · ITU
| Year | Norway | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | – | 73.6 |
| 2024 | 99 | 71.2 |
| 2023 | 99 | 69.2 |
| 2022 | 99 | 67 |
| 2021 | 99 | 63.8 |
| 2020 | 94.6 | 60.1 |
| 2019 | 98 | 53.9 |
| 2018 | 96.5 | 49.4 |
| 2017 | 96.4 | 46.3 |
| 2016 | 97.3 | 43.6 |
| 2015 | 96.8 | 39.9 |
| 2014 | 96.3 | 37.4 |
| 2013 | 95.1 | 35.3 |
| 2012 | 94.7 | 33.3 |
| 2011 | 93.5 | 30.9 |
| 2010 | 93.4 | 28.4 |
| 2009 | 92.1 | 25.3 |
| 2008 | 90.6 | 22.8 |
| 2007 | 86.9 | 20.2 |
| 2006 | 82.6 | 17.2 |
| 2005 | 82 | 15.6 |
| 2004 | 77.7 | – |
| 2003 | 78.1 | – |
| 2002 | 72.8 | – |
| 2001 | 64 | – |
| 2000 | 52 | – |
| 1999 | 40 | – |
| 1998 | 22.6 | – |
| 1997 | 20.4 | – |
| 1996 | 18.3 | – |
| 1995 | 6.4 | – |
| 1994 | 4.2 | – |
| 1993 | 2.8 | – |
| 1992 | 2.2 | – |
| 1991 | 1.4 | – |
| 1990 | 0.7 | – |
Good to know
- The share of people who used the internet in the last three months, from anywhere.
- Source: ITU, via the World Bank.
- Ranks count the 182 countries with a value in 2024, highest first.
- The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time
Norway in numbers
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Military
- Military spending3.28% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$16.1B in 2025
- Military spending per person$3,040 in 2025
- Military share of state spending6.7% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel25,000 people in 2020
- National power0.14% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.85% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports407 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports415 million TIV in 2025