Norway: overcrowding rate by country of birth 2022

The share of people born outside of Norway living in overcrowded households was significantly higher between 2012 and 2022 than among the Norwegian-born population. Whereas 14 percent of the foreigners in the country lived in overcrowded households in 2022, only three percent of the Norwegians did the same.
A person living in an overcrowded household is someone who does not have one room per household, one room per couple in the household, one room for each single person above 18 years, and one room per pair of single people of the same sex between 12 and 17 years.

Share of people living in overcrowded households in Norway 2012-2022, by country of birth

Characteristic	Born in Norway	Born abroad
2022	3%	14.1%
2021*	3.3%	16.3%
2020	4.1%	16.3%
2019	4.2%	16.2%
2018	4.3%	17.8%
2017	3.8%	15.3%
2016	3.7%	14.3%
2015	4.1%	15.2%
2014	3.5%	14.1%
2013	4.3%	17.1%
2012	3.9%	16.5%

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Release date

November 2023

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Region

Norway

Survey time period

2012 to 2022

Age group

18 years and older

Supplementary notes

The overcrowding rate is defined as the percentage of the population living in an overcrowded household. A person is considered as living in an overcrowded household if the household does not have at its disposal a minimum number of rooms equal to:
- one room for the household;
- one room per couple in the household;
- one room for each single person aged 18 or more;
- one room by pair of single people of the same sex between 12 and 17 years of age
- one room for each single person between 12 and 17 years of age and not included in the previous category
- one room per pair of children under 12 years of age.
Data coverage corresponds to code ILC_LVHO16 of the EU-SILC survey.

*Break in series.

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