Statistics Norway

Local government accounts, municipalities

1 Main figures for operating and capital accounts and financing. Municipalities, audited figures 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. NOK million
Sum kommuner - inkl. Oslo 2005 2006 2007 2008 Per cent change
2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008
Operating account              
Gross operating revenue  210 756  230 444  241 798  262 498 9.1 4.9 8.6
Gross operating expenditure  206 539  220 347  238 054  261 497 6.7 8.0 9.8
Gross operating surplus 4 218 10 097 3 745 1 001  126.6 -62.9 -73.3
Net instalments 5 789 6 297 6 842 7 076 8.7 8.7 3.4
Net interests -1 667 -1 872 -105 3 008 -13.7 -94.4 -2 970.1
Lending  156  133  148  157 -14.7 11.7 6.3
Depreciation 7 522 7 799 8 667 9 168 3.7 11.1 5.8
Net operating surplus 7 461 13 341 5 527 -73 71.8 -58.6 -101.3
Capital account              
Gross investment expenditure 23 190 24 753 29 992 34 091 6.7 21.2 13.7
Contribution, reimbursement and property sale revenue 6 089 8 067 8 069 6 456 32.5 0.0 -20.0
Financing              
Surplus before loan and allocations -3 492 3 203 -9 273 -20 297  176.9 -389.5  118.9
Applied loans 16 491 13 810 18 000 19 691 -16.4 30.3 9.4
Application of/allocation to funds -6 895 -9 946 -1 633 7 992 -44.5 -83.6 -589.3

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