Residents of Trøndelag have lowest income in Norway

Households in Trøndelag have the lowest disposable income per capita in Norway. Oslo and Akershus, the most densely populated region in Norway, has the highest income level. Oslo and Akershus and in Western Norway were the only regions to report positive net unearned income in 1996.

The starting point for the calculations is the households' primary and disposable income in the national accounts for 1993 to 1996. Here, disposable income increased by 16.7 per cent during the period. Deflated by the national accounts' price index for final consumption expenditure of households, this yields an 11.2 per cent increase in real disposable income. Real disposable income grew the fastest in the latter part of the four-year period.

Nominal disposable income varies among the seven regions. From 1993 to 1996 the disposable income of households in Oslo and Akershus and Western Norway increased by 19.4 and 17.2 per cent respectively. This is more than the overall increase for Norwegian households during the period. In two of the regions, South-East Norway and Agder and Rogaland, the increase in disposable income is almost in line with the national average. In Hedmark and Oppland, Trøndelag and in Northern Norway disposable income increased less than in other households in Norway. Households in Hedmark and Oppland had the lowest increase, with 14 per cent.

New Statistics
Primary and disposable income of households, by region, 1993-1996.
The statistics are published in the Weekly Bulletin of Statistics. For more information, contact: Knut.O.Sorensen@ssb.no, tel. +47 21 09 45 07.

Weekly Bulletin issue no. 42, 1998