The Norwegian Armed Forces - StatRes (discontinued), 2005-2011

The costs of own production were shared equally between compensation of employees and use of goods and services. The Norwegian Armed Forces account for 11.5 per cent of the central government’s own production and 20 per cent of central government investments in 2011.

The number of man-years in the Armed Forces was 10 per cent of the total man-years in central government. The share of central government resources utilised by the Armed Forces has been relatively stable from 2006 to 2011, measured in both man-years and expenses.

20 per cent of total man-years from conscription

Adjusted for long-term leave, the Armed Forces had 23 500 contracted man-years in 2011. This is an increase of almost 4 per cent from the previous year. Conscripts accounted for 20 per cent of the total man-years. Officers and various civilian positions accounted for the rest.

Aviation, sailing and land activity

Officers in the Norwegian Army spent an average of 15.6 days on exercise activity in 2011. This is the highest level for the period covered by these statistics. However, activity in the Home Guard was the lowest recorded, with 160 000 active service days last year. The number of assignments completed for the civilian society by the Home Guard was also lower in 2011 than in all previous years.

Activity measured in hours sailed in the Navy was higher in 2011 than in 2010, but lower than the average for the years 2005-2010. Sailing hours were relatively equally distributed among Navy logistic vessels, frigates, the mine warfare flotilla and the submarines. The last category of naval vessels; the missile torpedo boats, had far fewer sailing hours than the aforementioned four.

The number of flying hours in the Air Force was 27 000 in 2011. This is the highest figure for the period covered by these statistics, and about 10 per cent higher than the average for the years 2005 to 2010.

The Armed Forces administer buildings with a combined area of 3.4 square kilometres. By comparison, StatsBygg, which administers colleges, courthouses, culture centres, royal properties and embassies, administers a total area of 2.7 million square kilometres. About 90 per cent of the building mass administered by the Armed Forces is controlled by the units Logistics and acquisitions, Joint institutions and command structure etc, the Norwegian Army and the Royal Norwegian Air Force.