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Rankings · Norway

Each ranking lists every office-holder by how one indicator moved from their first day in office, next to Norway over the same months. A ranking of what happened during a tenure, not of who did it. Data as of Oct 2026. The worldwide rankings set them against every other country's.

Prime ministers

  • Mainland GDP during each prime minister's tenureStatistics Norway, quarterly national accounts (table 09190), constant 2023 prices, seasonally adjusted, summed over the trailing four quarters, from 1978 (figures after the 2023 base year preliminary); Mainland Norway: every industry but the extraction of oil and gas, pipeline transport and ocean shipping
  • Real GDP during each prime minister's tenureStatistics Norway, quarterly national accounts (table 09190), constant 2023 prices, seasonally adjusted, summed over the trailing four quarters, from 1978 (figures after the 2023 base year preliminary); the whole economy, oil and gas included
  • Real GDP per person during each prime minister's tenureStatistics Norway, quarterly GDP (table 09190, constant 2023 prices, seasonally adjusted), summed over the trailing four quarters, over the population on 1 January (table 05803) interpolated to the quarter
  • Unemployment rate during each prime minister's tenureStatistics Norway, Labour Force Survey, persons aged 15 to 74 (16 to 74 before 2006), not seasonally adjusted: table 05110 as first published to 2008, table 13619 (adjusted by SSB for the survey's redesign of January 2021) from 2009
  • Employment rate, 15 to 74 during each prime minister's tenureStatistics Norway, Labour Force Survey, persons aged 15 to 74 (16 to 74 before 2006), not seasonally adjusted: table 05110 as first published to 2008, table 13619 (adjusted by SSB for the survey's redesign of January 2021) from 2009
  • People employed during each prime minister's tenureStatistics Norway, national accounts, employed persons (employees and self-employed, every industry, the domestic concept): quarterly and seasonally adjusted from 1995 (table 09175), yearly before (table 09174)
  • Average pay during each prime minister's tenureStatistics Norway, national accounts (table 09174): wages and salaries over full-time equivalent employees, every industry, adjusted for inflation with SSB's consumer price index
  • Inflation (CPI) during each prime minister's tenureStatistics Norway, consumer price index (table 14710, 2025 = 100), change on the same month a year earlier, computed from the index
  • Consumer prices (CPI) during each prime minister's tenureStatistics Norway, consumer price index (table 14710, 2025 = 100), monthly
  • House prices during each prime minister's tenureStatistics Norway, price index for existing dwellings (table 07221), the whole country, every type of dwelling, not seasonally adjusted, not adjusted for inflation, from 1992
  • Exchange rate during each prime minister's tenureNorges Bank, exchange rates (EXR, M.USD.NOK.SP: the monthly average of the bank's daily rates), from 1990
  • Crude oil output during each prime minister's tenureUS Energy Information Administration, International Energy Statistics: crude oil including lease condensate, thousand barrels a day, monthly, the EIA's estimates from national, OPEC and industry sources
  • Oil fund's value during each prime minister's tenureNorges Bank Investment Management, the Government Pension Fund Global's market value at each year's end and at the latest quarter's, from the fund's own page (nbim.no), in kroner at that day's exchange rates, not adjusted for inflation
  • Population during each prime minister's tenureStatistics Norway, population on 1 January (table 05803), the residents registered in Norway's municipalities (Norwegians living on Svalbard counted in their home municipality)
  • Happiness during each prime minister's tenureWorld Happiness Report, Figure 2.1 data (Gallup World Poll): life evaluation, the national average answer to Gallup's question of where on a ladder from 0 (the worst possible life) to 10 (the best) people stand today; each point the average of three years of surveys, dated at the middle one, with the WHR's 95 % interval from 2019; 2013 is not published
  • Government effectiveness during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_GE.SC): perceptions of the quality of public services, the civil service and of policy-making, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
  • Regulatory quality during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RQ.SC): perceptions of the government's ability to make and carry out sound rules that let private business form and compete, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
  • Rule of law during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_RL.SC): confidence in contracts, property rights, the police and the courts, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
  • Control of corruption during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_CC.SC): perceptions of public power used for private gain, petty and grand, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
  • Corruption perceptions index during each prime minister's tenureTransparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI score): perceived public-sector corruption as business people and country experts rate it, comparable from 2012, the score as TI publishes it with its confidence interval
  • Voice and accountability during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_VA.SC): perceptions of how far citizens can take part in choosing their government, and of freedom of expression, association and the media, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval
  • Electoral democracy index during each prime minister's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_polyarchy): the electoral democracy index, free and fair elections with wide suffrage and the freedoms of association and expression that make them count, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
  • Liberal democracy index during each prime minister's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_libdem): the liberal democracy index, electoral democracy plus the checks on the executive and the rights of the person, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
  • Freedom of expression during each prime minister's tenureV-Dem Institute, V-Dem dataset v16 (v2x_freexp_altinf): the freedom of expression and alternative sources of information index, the press, academic and private speech and the media's independence, as V-Dem's country experts rate them, with V-Dem's confidence interval; the 0 to 1 index times 100
  • Political stability during each prime minister's tenureWorld Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators (GOV_WGI_PV.SC): perceptions of the likelihood of political instability or politically motivated violence, terrorism included, a score from 0 to 100 with its 90 % interval

Governing mayors

  • Population during each governing mayor's tenureStatistics Norway, population on 1 January by municipality (table 07459), the residents registered in Oslo, from 1986
  • Economic output (GVA) during each governing mayor's tenureStatistics Norway, regional accounts (table 09391): Oslo's gross value added at basic prices, at current prices in 2023 and carried back by each year's change in volume, yearly from 2010, the latest years preliminary; the chain is Politare's. The parent line is Mainland Norway's GDP at basic values, constant 2023 prices (national accounts, table 09189)
  • Registered unemployment rate during each governing mayor's tenureStatistics Norway, register-based labour force status (table 13563): residents aged 15 to 74 registered as unemployed with NAV over the labour force (the employed and the registered unemployed) in the fourth quarter, yearly from 2008; the division is Politare's
  • Employment rate, 15 to 74 during each governing mayor's tenureStatistics Norway, register-based employment statistics (table 06445): employed residents aged 15 to 74 as a share of the residents that age, in the fourth quarter, yearly from 2005
  • Jobs in the city during each governing mayor's tenureStatistics Norway, register-based employment statistics (table 03321): people employed at a workplace in Oslo in the fourth quarter, whatever their residence (the commuters from Akershus included), yearly from 2000, SSB's revised series from 2005
  • Median pay during each governing mayor's tenureStatistics Norway, earnings statistics (table 12852): the median monthly earnings of employees working in the municipality (agreed pay, variable allowances and bonuses, full-time equivalent), yearly from 2015, adjusted for inflation with SSB's consumer price index
  • House prices during each governing mayor's tenureStatistics Norway, price index for existing dwellings (table 07221), Oslo including Bærum, every type of dwelling, not seasonally adjusted, not adjusted for inflation, from 1992
  • Violent offences during each governing mayor's tenureStatistics Norway, offences reported to the police by scene of crime (table 08487): violence and maltreatment, the yearly average of each two years (2007-2008 to 2024-2025), dated between them, over the population on 1 January of the second year

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