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Norway: Unemployment rate

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

Norway

Latest value

· 2025

4.50% of labour force

EU 6.25 · -1.8 pp vs Europe

European ranking

24 / 34

Up 2 positions compared with previous year

Population

5.6M

Country population · 2025

What this indicator measures

Measures unemployed people as a percentage of the labour force aged 15 to 74.

Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.

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· 2025 · 6 regions

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Internal regions

Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.

  1. 1

    Oslo og Viken

    +11.11

    5.00

  2. 2

    Trøndelag

    +4.44

    4.70

  3. 3

    Agder og Sør-Østlandet

    +2.22

    4.60

  4. 4

    Innlandet

    -8.89

    4.10

  5. 4

    Vestlandet

    -8.89

    4.10

  6. 6

    Nord-Norge

    -22.22

    3.50

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Norway performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Unemployment rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Norway

In Norway, Unemployment rate is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 4.5% versus 6.3% in 2025, with a gap of 1.8 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Norway, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 4.70% in 2020 to 4.50% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 4.00% in 2024 to 4.50% in 2025, departs from that stability with a deterioration.

Regional differences in Norway

In Norway, regional values for Unemployment rate are relatively close. Across 6 comparable regions, Oslo og Viken records the highest value (5%) and Nord-Norge the lowest (3.5%), a gap of 1.5 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Norway, Employment & Economic Security shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards deterioration and warrant monitoring.