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Sources: The Nordic Region in Numbers

28 million inhabitants (2023)
1.6 million companies (2022) (Only Danmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden)
13.4 million employees (2022) 
Commuting across a Nordic border
Workplace/
Recident
Sweden
Denmark
Norway
Finland
Iceland
Total
Sweden
2 029 (2017)*
1 244 (2017)
1 324 (2017)
88
4 685
Denmark
14 275 (2017)*
532 (2017)
101
56
14 964
Norway
17 397 (2017)
3 309 (2017)
1 032 (2017)
694
22 432
Finland
1 854
179
184
12
2 229
Iceland
165
195
140
13
513
Total
33 691
5 712
2 100
2 470
850
44 823
The figures in the table above are from 2015, with the exception of the statistics available from 2017. *The statistics for commuters between Sweden and Denmark do not include the latest statistics from 2021, which are based on the exchange of a different kind of data than the rest of the statistics. In 2021, 18,600 commuted between SE and DK (from DK to Scania, respectively from SE to East DK (Bornholm and Zealand)). Source: Örestat. In addition to these, 359 sailors between Sweden and Denmark commuted to the Öresund region.
1 810 billion Euro in GDP (2022) (GL 2021) 
18th largest economy in the world, PPP (2024)
7th largest economy in Europe, PPP (2024)
228 000 live in another Nordic country (2022)
The Nordic countries are the region in the world with the highest degree of freedom (2023)
The world's most democratic state (2022)
Source: The Economist 
The world's happiest population (2023)
36 000 moved to another Nordic country (2022)
Nordic Council of Ministers I https://www.norden.org/en/publications I pub@norden.org