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Norway: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

Country: Norway Indicator: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20 Year: 2025

Country overview

Norway

Current reading for Income quintile share ratio S80/S20 in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20

Latest value

3.40 Ratio

European ranking

27 / 30

Improved by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-1.1 puntos

Norway is 1.1 points below the European average.

EU: 4.53

Affected population

5.6M

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 3.39 Ratio Europe benchmark: 4.73 Ratio

Internal regions

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Indicator: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Oslo og Viken

    +8.80

    3.70

  2. 2

    Nord-Norge

    -2.90

    3.30

  3. 3

    Agder og Sør-Østlandet

    -2.90

    3.30

  4. 4

    Trøndelag

    -8.80

    3.10

  5. 5

    Vestlandet

    -8.80

    3.10

  6. 6

    Innlandet

    -14.70

    2.90

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Norway performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Income quintile share ratio S80/S20, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Norway

In Norway, S80/S20 ratio stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 3.39 versus 4.73 in 2025, a large gap of 1.34 in the ratio.

Recent trend

In Norway, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 3.78 in 2020 to 3.39 in 2025. The latest step, from 3.62 in 2024 to 3.39 in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is stronger than the primary one.

Regional differences in Norway

In Norway, regional values for S80/S20 ratio are relatively close. Across 6 comparable regions, Oslo og Viken records the highest value (3.7) and Innlandet the lowest (2.9), a gap of 0.8 in the ratio.

Reading within the topic

In Norway, the evidence for Income & Purchasing Power leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.