Statistics Norway has digitalized all historical statistics publications from 1828 to 2000. This includes statistical yearbooks, survey publications and census publications and other series.

Important: Original documents are only available in Norwegian with French translations of tables and figure titles until 1950, thereafter the titles are in English.

Publications of interest

Catalogue of Norwegian official statistic and other publications published by the Central Bureau of Statistics 1828-1976 [pdf].

Publications 1977 - 1996 by subject

General, incl. elections

Environment

Population

Health, social conditions and services

Education

Personal economy and housing conditions

Labour market

Recreational, cultural and sporting activities

Prices, price indices and economic trends

National economy and valuation

Industrial activities

• Agriculture and forestry
• Fishing and fish farms
• Mining and quarrying
• Manufacture
• Electricity, gas, steam and water supply
• Building and construction
• Retail and wholesale trade
• Hotels and restaurants
• Transport and communication
• Financial intermediation
• Real estate activities, renting and business activities
• Other service activities

Financial markets

Public finances

To: Detailed subject list

Catalogue of Publications issued 1977-1996 [pdf]

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 can therefore be searched