How healthy is Norway?

The 40,364 are the new cancers reported to Norway's cancer records for 2025, a count, not an estimate. A few more arrive late; the report says 1 to 2 in 100 cases of a year usually reach it the next year.

The 11,703 deaths are an early count for 2025, which the report says may be revised. The cancer page gives the final count for 2024 apart, because the two are counted differently.

The cancer page gives the sources in full.

Source: Folkehelseinstituttet (the Norwegian Institute of Public Health), Kreftregisteret (the Cancer Registry of Norway), Cancer in Norway 2025, pages 15 and 16 of the file, read 17 October 2026.

These are people on a regular family doctor's list that had no doctor in 2025, as Statistics Norway counts them. SSB says the lists come from the health directorate's record of family doctors.

Counties read twice: Nordland 14,281 people, Vestland 34,208, Oslo 0. Oslo's 0 is SSB's own count. Three counties were read twice; the table has all 15.

People who are on no list at all are not in this figure.

Source: Statistisk sentralbyrå (SSB, Statistics Norway), Fastlegeliste uten lege (patients on a regular doctor's list with no doctor, table 12005), Norway and counties, 2025, read 17 October 2026.

At age two, 92 in 100 children had every vaccine the childhood programme recommends.

The worldwide estimate counts the second dose, made the same way for every country; Dooram's grade uses it. Norway's own figures lead here.

Sources: Folkehelseinstituttet (the Norwegian Institute of Public Health), Barnevaksinasjonsprogrammet i Norge. Årsrapport 2025 (the childhood vaccine programme's yearly report, 2025), Table 2, pages 8 and 12 of the file, read 17 October 2026. World Health Organization and UNICEF, United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Global Database, read 11 October 2026.

An estimate, at 22 March 2026. The counties run from 55 in 100 in Finnmark to 74 in Vestland, the lowest and highest the institute names.

“Vaksinasjonsdekningen nasjonalt blant personer over 65 år er per 22. mars anslått til 69 %.”

In English, Dooram's translation: “National vaccination coverage among people over 65 is estimated at 69 % on 22 March.”

The text says “over 65” and the institute's table “65+”. Dooram says 65 and over, as the table does.

Source: Folkehelseinstituttet (the Norwegian Institute of Public Health), Statusrapport for luftveisinfeksjoner, uke 12 2026 (weekly report on respiratory infections, week 12 of 2026), pages 3 and 49 of the file, read 17 October 2026.

Statistics Norway's health accounts: all spending on health, public and private, health-related nursing and care included. Shares are Dooram's division of SSB's amounts. Dollars are converted by Dooram at the 2023 average rate of 10.56 kroner to $1 (World Bank, from the IMF: 10.5633; the Federal Reserve gives 10.5659).

Sources: Statistisk sentralbyrå (SSB, Statistics Norway), Helseregnskap (health accounts, 2023, tables 10811 to 10814 and the article of 30 April 2026), tables 10811 and 10812, read 19 October 2026. World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the International Monetary Fund, Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average), PA.NUS.FCRF, read 19 October 2026. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, G.5A Foreign Exchange Rates (Annual), read 19 October 2026.

People on a waterworks, private or municipal, in every 100, 2025

• Oslo98.5
• Finnmark94.8
• Norway88.4
• Innlandet78.2

On municipal water alone, 85.2 in 100. SSB counts 1,927 private and municipal waterworks.

About 11 in 100 people, about 640,000, are on no waterworks that reports to the health institute. That is Dooram's sum, not a figure either publisher prints: 5,594,340 people lived in Norway on 1 January 2025 and 4,953,600 were on the waterworks in the institute's report for 2024.

Sources: Statistisk sentralbyrå (SSB, Statistics Norway), Vannforsyning. Tilknytning til vannverk (people connected to waterworks, table 13143), Norway and counties, 2025, read 17 October 2026. Folkehelseinstituttet (the Norwegian Institute of Public Health), Rapportering av data for vannforsyningssystemer i Norge for 2024 (the reporting of data on water supply systems in Norway, 2024), Table 3, page 10 of the file, read 17 October 2026.

• E. coli tests above the limitEvery waterworks that reports, 202474 of 62,821
• Small waterworks, for 50 to 500 peopleE. coli tests above the limit, 202452 of 9,916

A waterworks counts as passing when it had at least 4 tests and 95 in 100 of them were not above the limit. So passing allows one bad test in twenty.

Of people on waterworks that report, 90 in 100 get water from lakes and rivers (4,446,900 of 4,962,700).

Source: Folkehelseinstituttet (the Norwegian Institute of Public Health), Rapportering av data for vannforsyningssystemer i Norge for 2024 (the reporting of data on water supply systems in Norway, 2024), Tables 5, 6, 7 and 13, pages 14, 15 and 20 of the file, read 17 October 2026.

This counts people, not tests: 4,775,712 of the 4,791,751 people connected to municipal water supply had satisfactory E. coli results. It does not cover people on private waterworks, wells or small supplies.

The health institute's report says about 99.7 in 100 of “the population”; its tables show that is of people on waterworks that report.

The worldwide figure measures something else, people with safely managed water, so the two are not the same sum. Dooram leads with Norway's own.

Sources: Statistisk sentralbyrå (SSB, Statistics Norway), Vannkvalitet. Kommunalt drikkevann (water quality of municipal drinking water, table 11786), Norway and counties, 2025, read 17 October 2026. WHO and UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme, United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Global Database, read 11 October 2026.

In 2025, 195,513,449 of 657,469,710 cubic metres of municipal drinking water were lost to leaks. In 2024 SSB's figure was 30.3.

The health institute's report for 2024 gives about 29 in 100, about 210 million cubic metres.

Dooram gives no reason for the leaks; no source it read says why.

Sources: Statistisk sentralbyrå (SSB, Statistics Norway), Vannforsyning og beredskap. Kommunalt drikkevann (water supply and preparedness, municipal drinking water, table 11787), Norway and counties, 2025, read 17 October 2026. Folkehelseinstituttet (the Norwegian Institute of Public Health), Rapportering av data for vannforsyningssystemer i Norge for 2024 (the reporting of data on water supply systems in Norway, 2024), page 6 of the file, read 17 October 2026.

Municipal sewage service is SSB's term. A treatment requirement is the cleaning a plant is required to do.

The worldwide figure measures safely managed sanitation for everyone, which is a different sum. Dooram leads with Norway's own.

Sources: Statistisk sentralbyrå (SSB, Statistics Norway), Avløp. Tilknytning til kommunal avløpstjeneste (people connected to municipal sewage service, table 13144), Norway, 2025, read 17 October 2026. Statistisk sentralbyrå (SSB, Statistics Norway), Avløp. Rensekrav og oppfyllelse (sewage plants and their treatment requirement, table 11793), Norway, 2025, read 17 October 2026. WHO and UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme, United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Global Database, read 11 October 2026.

An estimate from a model of the whole country, not a reading from one place. It is the figure Dooram's air and water grade uses.

Norway's health institute sets its own health-based level for fine particles at 5 micrograms over a year, the same as the guideline:

“PM 2,5 : 15 µg/m3 i døgnmiddel 5 µg/m3 i årsmiddel”

In English, Dooram's translation: “PM2.5: 15 micrograms a cubic metre as a daily average, 5 as a yearly average”

Dooram has not read a measured figure for Norway.

Sources: World Health Organization, United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Global Database, read 11 October 2026. Folkehelseinstituttet (the Norwegian Institute of Public Health), Svevestøv (fine particles, its air quality criteria), read 17 October 2026.