Population of Norway 1769-2020, by gender

This statistic shows the total population of Norway from 1769 until 2020. The data begins in 1769, when Norway was a part of the Kalmar Union with Denmark and was ruled from Copenhagen, however this data applies to the modern-day borders of Norway. From the beginning of the period, the numbers of men and women have grown at a similar rate throughout Norway's history. The number of women was always higher than the number of men, until the final entries in the graph where they are the same or the number of men exceeds women. The largest differences occur in the early twentieth century where there were up to 70 thousand more women than men between 1910 and 1930, however these numbers became closer throughout the rest of the 1900s.