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It has taken 12,000 years for Norwegian population to reach 5 million people.

Monday made it possible for that to happen and even passed as Norway hit five million people.

Sunday, 18 March 2012

The population of Norway has finally grown some what in recent times and has hit and surpassed five million as reports on Monday will show.

Despite the enormous wealth of the country engineered by oil deposits here and there in the North sea and a huge oil fund in which the government has starch much of its oil wealth in various funds, the population of the country has been growing creepily. In fact, if not of a slightly increased immigration that had covered for the historic emigration, the population would have continued to remain the same – low.

Despite extensive emigration of the Norwegians to the USA, 1 million to be specific in the last 100 years, Norwegian society had experienced an economic development that had made it possible to keep the some emigrants here. Had all the other Norwegian scattered here and there stayed in Norway, the population would have reached a figure today of somewhere between 7 and 8 million instead of 5 million, according to Prof. Stale Dyrvik at the University of Bergen.

Besides the emigration to America, it is likely pest attacks such as the Black Death that have had the greatest impact on population trends in Norway.
It is clear that increase immigration has contributed to the population growth as Norway gradually become a pluralise society.
By Scancomark.se Team

Facts about population trends in Norway

Date	Population
19 March 2012	Norway's population passes the 5 million people according to Statistics Norway (SSB)
1975	4 million people live in Norway in February this year
1942	3 million crossed the middle of the 2nd World War II.
1890	2 million inhabitants in Norway after heavy population growth throughout the century. And despite the emigration to America.
1822	1 million inhabitants in Norway
1769	723,618 Norwegians, according to the first census
1665	440,000, according to Statistics Norway
1500	Between 150,000 and 180,000 after the Black Death (the plague that plucked people in masses to their death).
1349	Between 300,000 and 550,000
800	Estimated that 80,000 people live in Norway.
0 to 10,000 BC	Some tens of thousands of people living in Norway after having immigrated from the south.
Source: NTB

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