Historical statistics

Official statistics were compiled in the dual monarchy of Denmark and Norway from the 18th century. After 1814 a statistical office was at first set up in the Ministry of Finance (later at the Ministry of the Interior). In 1876 the office was separated from the ministry and organized as an independent institution under the name of the Central Bureau of Statistics - now Statistics Norway.

Time series in Statbank starting before 1980


Historical publications

Statistics Norway has scanned all older statistical publications and made them available in pdf-format. Historical publications 1828-1996 list all statistical publications by subject with links.


Statistical survey/Historical statistics is a series of survey publications of historical time series published by Statistics Norway. Until the 1948 edition the publications were in Norwegian and French, thereafter in Norwegian and English.

The historical time series date as far back as it has been possible to give comparable figures. The publications are organized by subject and each chapter starts with an overview of the statistical sources and with a description of development trends.

Editions: 1994 | 1978 | 1968 | 1958 | 1948
Note: The editions from 1978 and 1968 are more extensive than the 1994 edition.


Other overviewsbilde

Statistical Yearbook of Norway (1880 - 2013) presented the main tables and figures from official statistics. It also contains a number of historical tables that go back to the 19th century, especially the 2000 edition. The Statistical Yearbook was published in Norwegian and French until 1952, thereafter it was published in Norwegian and English, and in separate Norwegian and English editions after 1996.

Editions from: 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1885/86 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889
1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899
1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909
1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | 1919
1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926/27 | 1928 | 1929
1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939
1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943/45 | 1946/48 | 1949
1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959
1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969
1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979
1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989
1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999
2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013
Editions (2000 - 2013)


Emigration (1836-1915) In Norwegian but with a list of tables and figures in French


Note on PDF files: Some of the files are quite large and may take some time to download. They are scanned using OCR-software (Optical character recognition) and you can search inside the file.