Norway Yearbook - 2003

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632 Area, population and increase in population. Macro regions and regions
Macro regions and regions
Surface
area1 in
1 000
(km)
Midyear estimates (militons)
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
Annual Per 1 000 mean
rate of population
Density
n-
crease,
Live per km2
Deaths
percent
births
World, total 135 641 2 519 3 020 3 691 4 430 5 255 6 057 1.4 22 9 45
Africa 30306 221 277 356 467 619 794 2.4 39 14 26
EasternAfrica2 6356 65 82 108 143 193 250 2.7 43 18 39
MiddleAfrica3 6613 26 32 40 52 71 95 2.6 46 16 14
Northern Africa4 8 525 53 67 86 111 143 174 1,9 28 8 20
Southern Africa5 2675 16 20 26 33 41 50 1.6 28 12 18
Western Africa6 6138 60 75 97 128 171 224 2.7 42 15 36
LatinAmerica 20533 167 218 285 361 440 519 1.6 23 6 25
Caribbean7 235 17 20 25 29 34 38 1.1 21 8 162
Central America8 2 480 37 49 68 90 111 135 1.8 26 5 54
South Americat 17819 178 223 286 358 440 522 1.6 24 7 29
Northern America10 21 517 172 204 232 255 283 314 1.0 14 8 15
Asia 31 764 1399 1700 2142 2631 3164 3672 1.4 22 8 116
Eastern Asia11 11 762 672 792 987 1178 1 350 1481 0.8 16 7 126
South-central Asiat2 10776 498 619 783 982 1225 1481 1.8 28 9 137
South-eastern Asia'3 4495 178 223 286 358 44.0 522 1.6 24 7 116
Western Asia14 4731 50 66 86 113 149 188 2.3 29 7 40
Europe 22986 548 605 657 693 722 727 0.0 10 12 32
EasternEurope15 18813 220 253 276 295 311 304 0,4 9 13 16
Northern Europ&6 1 749 78 82 87 90 92 95 0.2 12 11 54
Southern Europe17 1316 109 118 127 138 143 144 0.2 10 10 110
Western Europe8 1107 141 152 166 170 176 183 02 11 10 165
Oceania 8537 12.6 15.7 19.2 22.5 26.3 30.5 1.4 18 8 4
Australia and New Zealand19. 7984 10.1 12.6 15.4 17.7 20.2 22.9 1.1 14 7 3
Melanesia2° 541 2.1 2.5 3.2 4.1 5.1 6.5 2.3 33 9 12
Micronesia21 3 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.5 2.2 31 5 172
Polynesia22 9 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.6 1.1 25 5 67
1lncluding freshwater (lakes), The Antarctica (14 100 km?) not included. 2British Indian Ocean Territory, Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea,
Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Uganda, United Rep. of Tanzania,
Zambia, Zimbabwe. 3Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon. 590 Torné and Principe, Zaire
4Algeria, Egypt, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland
tBenin Burkina Faso. Cape Verde, C6te d'Ivoire, Gambia. Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigena, St Helena,
Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo. 'Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba,
Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts-Nevis,
St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States Virgin Islands. 8Belize, Conta Rica,
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras. Mexico. Nicaragua, Panama tArgentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, French
Guyana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Sunname, Uruuay, Venezuela, 1tBermuda. Canada, Greenland, St Pierre and Miquelon, United States
Hawaii is included here, rather than in Oceania. Chïna, Hong Kong, Japan, Republic of Korea, Dein. People's Rep. of Korea, Macau,
Mongolia. 2Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzstan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Talikistani,
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan 13Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Lao Peoples Dem Rep., Malaysia, Myanrntar, Philippines,
Singapore, Thailand, Viet Ham. t4Arn,enia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Georgia, Iraq, Israel Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine (Gaza
Strips), Quatar, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen. 1
Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary,
Poland, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Ukraine. t6Channel Islands, Denmark, Estonia, Faeroe Islands, Finland,
Iceland, Ireland. Isle of Man, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom. t7Albania. Andorra. Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Gibraltar,
Greece, Holy See, Italy, Malta, Portugal, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain, The former Yugoslav Rep of Macedonia. Yugoslavia. 1tAustria,
Belgium, France, Germany, Lid'itenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, Switzerland 1tAustralia, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling)
Islands, New Zealand, Norfolk Island. 2tFidji, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu. 2tFederated States of
Micronesia, Guam, Johnstor. Island, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, 22Annerican Samoa, Cook Islands,
French Polynesia, Niue, Pitcairn, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Wallis and Futuna Islands,
Source: UN, Statistics Finland and Statistics Norway More information: httpíAvww.ssb.no/ , http:Mwww.un.org/ and httpi/w'ww.stat.fV
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