The record in plain text — overall score, categories, strengths and risks, momentum, resilience, strategic position, and diagnostics.
Strongest on Quality of Life (97/100) — sharpest risk, innovation weakness.
| Category | Score | Key driver |
|---|---|---|
| Economy | 84/100 | GDP per Capita |
| Governance | 89/100 | Rule of Law Index |
| Quality of Life | 97/100 | Tertiary Enrolment (Gross) |
| Innovation | 72/100 | Internet Penetration |
| Stability | 85/100 | Violence & Safety |
Derived — composites of sourced indicators. Full audit trail in Data Provenance below.
| Signal | Value | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| National Momentum | −3 | now 77, versus 80 three years ago, across 5 categories |
| Resilience | 74/100 | Pandemic 90 · Banking Crisis 82 · War / Conflict 62 · Natural Disaster 60 |
| Strategic Position | 65/100 | Demographics 64 · Resources 15 · Stability 85 · Education 91 · Technology 72 · Geopolitics 61 |
Norway scores 85 (strong) overall on NationsHelm's index. Momentum: down 3 points versus three years ago (now 77). Its strongest area is Quality of Life (97/100). The risk drawing attention: Innovation weakness.
All 192 tracked indicators — 110 sourced, 82 derived — each with its exact source, series code, and refresh cadence. The complete source-by-source catalog is on the methodology page.
Full catalog →Per-indicator sources are always public on the methodology page — Analyst assembles the complete ledger in context.
Norway scores 85 out of 100 overall on NationsHelm's index (strong) — the unweighted mean of its sourced category scores. Its strongest area is Quality of Life (97/100) and its weakest is Innovation (72/100).
Norway's Stability score is 85 out of 100 (strong), blended from World Bank governance indicators, V-Dem and UCDP conflict data.
Norway's Economy score is 84 out of 100 (strong), derived from World Bank, IMF and ILO indicators.
Norway's Quality of Life score is 97 out of 100 (strong), covering safety, healthcare, education, basic living conditions, environment and living conditions context from sourced indicators.
Norway's Governance score is 89 out of 100 (strong), from World Bank governance indicators and V-Dem democracy data.
Norway's Innovation score is 72 out of 100 (strong), from World Bank connectivity and business indicators, WIPO patent data and the Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index.
On NationsHelm's momentum read, Norway is down 3 points versus three years ago — 77 now, from 80 — across the 5 categories with time-series coverage.
Norway's defining asset is GDP per capita, while its sharpest risk is innovation weakness — patent Applications 169.77 per million — the category's weakest input (33/100).
Norway's Strategic Position score is 65 out of 100 (moderate), weighing demographics, resources, stability, education, technology and geopolitics — each component sourced or derived, with unsourced components dropped rather than counted as zero.
On NationsHelm's Opportunity Index, Norway scores 80 out of 100 for Invest In — one of its three vectors, alongside Start a Business and Emigrate To, with a Resilience score of 74/100. Every input is sourced, so treat it as a starting map, not advice.