How many LinkedIn users are there in Norway. How much do they share?
How does this relate to the working population?

How many people change jobs, how many new accounts are created on a day?

What are the biggest companies in Norway on LinkedIn?

A lot of interesting stats en facts about the LinkedIn usage in Norway.

LinkedIn usage data and statistics for Norway - August 2019

Facts about Norway:

 

Number of habitants: 5,400,916 people

(according to World of Meters)

 

Capital: Oslo

 

Working population: 2,789,924 people.

 

In Norway there are 1,482,626 registered LinkedIn accounts. That means that 53.1% of the working population has a LinkedIn account.

 

Norway ranks number 11 in the relative usage over 44 European countries.

 

Over the past year, the number of LinkedIn users in Norway has grown with 5.5%.

LinkedIn member accounts in Norway

Absolute number of users


This graph shows the absolute number of registered members on LinkedIn for Norway.

Users VS Working population


This graph shows how much percent of the working population for Norway has a LinkedIn profile.

1482626
People have a LinkedIn profile in Norway.
53.1 %
of the working population has a LinkedIn profile in Norway.

FACT


According to LinkedIn data, 53.1% of the working population has a profile on LinkedIn in Norway.


27.5% of the total population has a profile on LinkedIn.

Economic graph

Norway has a working population of 2,789,924 people. 53.1% of them have a profile on LinkedIn.

6.5% of the people works in Oil & Energy. 4.3% works in Construction and 3.8% has a job in Information Technology and Services.


Oil & Energy
96,042

Construction
64,345

Information Technology and Services
57,076

The most occurring functions in Norway are:

 

Function Group

Number

% of members

Operations 222,655 15.%
Business Development 138,582 9.3%
Sales 96,931 6.5%

FACT


According to LinkedIn data, on average there are 104 job changes a day on LinkedIn in Norway.

Growth numbers for Norway

The LinkedIn population of Norway has grown over the past year with 5.5%.

 

Looking over the past three months there has been a growth of 1.3%.

 

Over the past year, there were 6,497 new members each month.

 

Meaning 1,499 per week, 214 per day, 9 per hour.

 

If Norway continues to grow at this speed, they will have 1,560,584 members by August 2020.

 

Norway ranks number 42 in Europe for growth.

FACT


Over the past year, there were 214 new accounts created on LinkedIn per day in Norway.

 


In last 3 months there were 72 new accounts created per day in Norway.

Active posting on LinkedIn

In Norway there are on average 47 updates posted per hour, 1,133 per day, 7,954 per week and 34,468 per month.

 

That means that 1.6% of the LinkedIn users in Norway actually posted an update on LinkedIn in August.

 

Norway ranks number 28 in Europe for active posting.

Active posting over time

FACT


In Norway there are 1,133 updates posted every day.

 


That equals 47 updates an hour.

 


And .8 updates a minute.

Note

We have no data about the numbers of articles, likes and comments. This number only represents the times people create a new post on LinkedIn.

Biggest Employers on LinkedIn

2

Statoil

8,376 Employees on LinkedIn

1

NAV

9,062 Employees on LinkedIn

3

DNB

6,787 Employees on LinkedIn

Company Pages

In Norway there are 33,069 registered Company Pages.

 

In August 2018 there were 737,470 registered Company Pages.

Number of registered Company Pages

Industry Percentage
Information Technology and Services 7.8%
Marketing and Advertising 3.6%
Computer Software 3.3%

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