Healthcare services

Statistics Norway · Out-of-hours emergency care · Women

How many women had no, one or several out-of-hours emergency consultations?

Here you can see the proportion of women who had no, exactly one or at least two out-of-hours emergency consultations in each year. The figures are percentages of women of all ages, not counts of consultations.

How to read the chart

Each horizontal bar represents 100 women. Dark blue shows how many had no consultations, medium blue those who had one, and light blue the remainder with two or more. The parts add up to 100%.

Statistics Norway · Healthcare

Patients, GPs and out-of-hours emergency care

Here you can see how many people use different healthcare services and how that use has changed. We distinguish between patient counts, consultations per person and percentages because they describe different aspects of healthcare.

Statistics Norway · Table 10310 · 2025

Out-of-hours emergency consultations per person by sex and age

This shows the average number of out-of-hours emergency consultations per person in 2025 within each age group. This is a different measure from the proportion who had at least one out-of-hours emergency consultation, which is already shown further up the page.

These figures are average out-of-hours emergency consultations per person within each age and sex group, not the proportion who visited out-of-hours care. Age groups follow Statistics Norway's own definitions and cannot be added together. Figures have two decimal places as published by Statistics Norway. Differences in use alone do not indicate differences in treatment needs or access.

Original source: Statistics Norway, table 10310, updated 28 May 2026. Presented by Tidlignok, Womanhood Initiative. Checked on 4 November 2026.

FHI · Norwegian Patient Registry

Waiting times and patients, 2023–2025

Waiting time is the average number of days before healthcare begins. The figures cover all patients, regardless of sex, and do not show waiting times separately for girls or women. Nor do they describe how long each individual patient waits.

A person may receive healthcare in several service areas and therefore be included in multiple patient counts. The sum across service areas is consequently not a count of unique patients across all specialist healthcare. Waiting time is a different measure from the number of patients.

Sources: FHI, annual statistics 2023–2024 og FHI, annual statistics 2024–2025, published 17 March 2026.

FHI · Norwegian Patient Registry · 2026

More recent waiting times and activity

This compares corresponding periods in 2025 and 2026, not annual figures. Patient counts cover January–August. Waiting times cover the second four-month period (May–August). Patient counts and average waiting times therefore refer to different measurement periods.

Activity figures are preliminary, while waiting-list figures are final for the stated periods. The same patient may be included in several service areas. Source: FHI, waiting times and activity at the end of August 2026.

FHI · Prevention

Screening and HPV vaccination

In 2025, 72.7 percent of women aged 25–69 participated in the Norwegian Cervical Screening Programme within the recommended screening interval. A total of 353,435 cervical samples were registered, including samples taken because of symptoms and follow-up samples, and 259 new cases of cervical cancer were recorded. The sample count is not the number of participants.

According to the 2025 annual report, women aged 25–33 had the lowest participation in the Norwegian Cervical Screening Programme, and the decline among the youngest participants continued. The programme's target is at least 80 percent participation. We do not display percentages by age or county until the specific figures have been retrieved and verified. Sample counts and participation percentages have different denominators.

FHI also reports that completed HPV vaccination among 16-year-old girls rose from 67 percent in 2013 to 93 percent in 2024. Among 16-year-old boys, coverage was 90 percent in 2024. These figures measure vaccination, not HPV prevalence.

Mammography figures are shown in the next section. The programmes cover different age groups and use different measures of participation.

FHI · Norwegian Cervical Screening Programme · annual report 2025

Cervical samples by age

What proportion of women in each age group had at least one registered cervical sample during the five-year period 2021–2025? We show the age groups covered by the Norwegian Cervical Screening Programme, ages 25–69.

Important: This is five-year coverage for different age groups, not FHI's 'participation within the recommended screening interval' indicator of 72.7 percent. Nor should the figures be interpreted as meaning a screening sample was always required throughout the five-year period. The screening method and recommended intervals have changed.

Source: FHI, Norwegian Cervical Screening Programme annual report 2025, Table 3.4. The report describes changes in HPV screening and coverage calculations. Original figures checked on 3 November 2026.

FHI · BreastScreen Norway

Attendance at mammography screening

In 2025, approximately 332,300 women were invited. Of those invited, 78.8 percent attended. The programme invites women aged 50–69. This is the proportion of invited women who attended, not the proportion of all women in Norway.

Examples of geographic variation in 2025

Three selected breast centre areas, not a complete ranking. The areas are defined by BreastScreen Norway.

Statistics Norway · Eurostat/Bufdir · Norway

Women live longer, but have fewer healthy life years

Life expectancy indicates how long newborns could expect to live if mortality remained at the level observed in the reference year. Healthy life years is a different measure: the number of years a person can expect to live without activity limitations due to health problems.

How has life expectancy changed?

Statistics Norway, 2015–2025. The bars start at zero and show life expectancy at birth in each calendar year.

Sources: Statistics Norway: Life expectancy 1950–2025 and Bufdir: Healthy life years (Eurostat). Eurostat's latest year in this extract is 2024. Life expectancy, healthy life years and FHI's YLD/HALE have different reference years and definitions.

Eurostat · Norway · hlth_hlye

Trends in healthy life years

Here, healthy life years means the expected number of years without activity limitations due to health problems. This measure is based on EU statistics and must not be confused with FHI's estimates of healthy life expectancy (HALE) or years lived with disability (YLD).

Missing values are shown with a dash (2021). * Eurostat flags 2023 with 'b', indicating a break in the time series. The figures are shown for transparency, but changes across this break must not be interpreted as a directly comparable trend. Source data may subsequently be revised.

Source: Eurostat hlth_hlye, indicator HLY_Y0, unit: years, Norway.

FHI · Global Burden of Disease 2023

Years lived with disability among women and men

Years lived with disability (YLD) is an estimated measure of how disease and injury affect health during life. The figures below cover all ages and causes of disease in Norway. They do not show how many people are ill.

The difference is approximately 48,000 estimated years lived with disability, but these are absolute figures. Population size and age distribution must be considered before comparing risk or disease burden per person.

Source: FHI, Burden of disease in Norway (GBD 2023). Source figures are approximate. The historical points from FHI's GBD estimates are not shown here as a separate chart. HelseOmsorg21 Monitor: disease burden by sex.

WHO · Global Health Estimates 2023 · 2026 edition

Trends in years lived with disability among women and men

The values come from WHO's original tables for Norway, covering all ages and all causes. They show estimated years lived with disability (YLD). These figures are not counts of people with illnesses, nor are they FHI's GBD series.

Years with available original values

Scale: 0–500,000 estimated years lived with disability. The years are unevenly spaced; no values for intervening years have been estimated in this display. Figures are rounded to the nearest whole year lived with disability.

WHO Global Health Estimates · Documented original extract on GitHub. GHE and GBD use different methods and produce different estimates; these figures must not be combined.

NAV · Working life and health

Doctor-certified sickness absence by sex

In 2025, doctor-certified sickness absence was 7.2 percent among women and 4.1 percent among men. The corresponding figures in 2024 were 7.5 and 4.3 percent. The percentage represents working days lost relative to contracted working days, not the proportion of people who were ill.

The difference between the sexes alone cannot explain which diagnoses or working conditions underlie it. NAV publishes separate tables by age, diagnosis, industry and occupation. These must be verified separately before we display more detailed charts.

NAV · 2002–2025

Medically certified sickness absence over time

Annual share of scheduled working days lost to medically certified sickness absence, by sex. These are not counts of people.

Source: NAV Annual Report 2025, Figure 2. This is medically certified absence, not total absence including self-certification. NAV source

NAV · 2025

Sickness absence by age and sex

Medically certified absence as a percentage of scheduled working days in 2025, not the percentage of people who were on sick leave.

Source: NAV, Annual Report on Medically Certified Sickness Absence 2025, Figure 7. These figures exclude self-certified absence. Original NAV statistics

Helsenorge and FHI · Gynaecological health

Endometriosis: How many are affected?

Approximately 10 percent is an estimate of how many may have endometriosis. Registry figures, by contrast, show how many people have had the diagnosis recorded in healthcare services. Undiagnosed people are not included in registry figures.

Norwegian Patient Registry · registry study 2008–2021

Recorded endometriosis og adenomyose

A Norwegian registry study included 1,910,661 women aged 15–49. It examined diagnoses recorded in specialist healthcare services between 2008 and 2021.

The group with both diagnoses overlaps the other two categories and must not be added as a separate group. The figures show recorded diagnoses, not how many people actually have the conditions. Undiagnosed people are not captured. The study covers a total of 14 years and is not an annual statistic for 2025.

Health Atlas · SKDE · Women aged 16–55

Surgical procedures for endometriosis: two documented years

SKDE reports 1,272 procedures in 2015 and 2,431 procedures in 2024, an increase of 91%. We show these two explicitly published years, not a continuous time series. The figures concern surgical procedures, not the number of women living with endometriosis.

SKDE also finds considerable geographic variation: the hospital catchment area with the highest procedure rate had a rate around four times that of the lowest in 2025. Catchment areas are not the same as counties. We do not show a separate geographic chart without verified rates by catchment area.

Original source: SKDE / Health Atlas. Presented by Tidlignok, Womanhood Initiative. Figures checked against SKDE's published analysis on 4 November 2026.

FHI · NPR · 2017–2025

Explore 25 diagnosis codes side by side

Choose one diagnosis family and year. Each row counts patients recorded with that exact code in specialist care. A patient may appear in multiple rows; never add the bars together.

The original NPR tables 545/546 do not provide age, sex or county dimensions. Such breakdowns would require an additional aggregated source extract.

FHI Norwegian Patient Registry, tables 545/546, measure ANT_PAS. Registered specialist-care patients by diagnosis code, not prevalence. Recording can change over time; suppressed data are not zero. Original source

FHI · Norwegian Patient Registry · 2017–2025

Explore recorded diagnoses

Explore registered patients by diagnosis code from 2017 to 2025. Choose one of six diagnosis groups and then a specific code. These are specialist healthcare figures, not counts of people living with the condition in Norway.

FHI · Norwegian Patient Registry · 2017–2025

Pregnancy-related diagnoses in the Norwegian Patient Registry

Explore selected diagnosis codes directly related to pregnancy and childbirth, including pre-eclampsia, diabetes in pregnancy and postpartum bleeding. The charts show patients registered with the selected code in specialist healthcare each year. This does not measure how many people in the population have the condition, and codes cannot be summed to count unique patients.

FHI · Norwegian Prescribed Drug Registry · hormonal contraception

Hormonal contraception use among young women

The Norwegian Institute of Public Health reports that the proportion using hormonal contraception declined among women under 30 up to 2024. Do not compare age groups as if they had the same starting year: FHI uses 2019 as the comparison year for ages 16–19 and 25–29, and 2020 for ages 20–24.

These are registry-based figures for hormonal contraceptives, not a measure of all contraception use or how many people are protected against pregnancy. Condom use and other non-hormonal methods cannot be calculated from these figures. FHI also reports increased use of long-acting methods among young women, but without separately verified annual figures we do not show a line for each method.

FHI · Norwegian Prescribed Drug Registry · 2023–2025

Prescription dispensing of hormonal contraceptives

Choose age group and medicine group. The figures show women who received medicine from a pharmacy, not how many actually use it for contraception. Some medicines may have other indications.

The medicine groups do not necessarily correspond to contraceptive methods as people describe them. We cannot sum the figures to count unique contraceptive users, and dispensing does not mean actual use. Condoms and other non-prescription methods are not included.

Original source: FHI Norwegian Prescribed Drug Registry, table 825. Source updated 03/03/2026. Open the source table

NKVTS · Population survey

Experiences of violence and sexual assault

Sexual assault centres record contact with healthcare services. Population surveys can also shed light on the experiences of people who never sought help or reported the incident to the police.

NKVTS interviewed 4,299 people aged 18–74 between June 2021 and June 2022. The study was published in 2023. The figures describe lifetime experiences, not incidents during a single calendar year. Self-reported experiences cannot be directly compared with the number of police reports or visits to sexual assault centres.

City of Oslo · Sexual Assault Centre

Patients at Oslo Sexual Assault Centre

The Sexual Assault Centre provides emergency healthcare to people aged 14 and over who have experienced, or suspect they have experienced, sexual assault. The figures describe people who received care at the centre, not how many assaults occurred.

National survey · NORCE / NKLM

Sexual assault centres in Norway

A survey conducted in autumn 2023 examined organisation, staffing, finances, emergency preparedness and follow-up at all 23 sexual assault centres included in the study. This is a survey of services, not a count of all sexual assaults in Norway.

What did the survey find?

• 11 of 23 centres were located at out-of-hours emergency primary-care services, with different agreements with hospital trusts.
• All surveyed centres reported offering examinations to people of all sexes.
• Most had a lower age limit of 14 years for examining children. Services offered to younger children must therefore be examined separately.
• Financial resources and access to qualified staff varied between centres.
• At many centres, emergency staffing was organised through call-out lists, creating a risk that the necessary staff might not be available quickly enough.
• Provision of medical and psychosocial follow-up varied considerably.

The findings show differences in how services are organised. They do not show how many people were turned away, how long patients waited or whether a particular person received adequate care.

FHI and Statistics Norway · 2025

Eating disorders and self-rated health

FHI · National Public Health Survey 2025

Health and educational attainment

The proportion rating their own health as good or very good, by education and sex. The figures are age-adjusted and cover people over 25 who are not students.

Shared scale from 0 to 100 percent. Age-adjusted percentages, not numbers of people.

Among women, the difference between the lowest and highest education categories is 28.9 percentage points. FHI found no clear differences between sexes within individual education groups. The figures show an association between education and health but cannot establish the cause. Sampling, weighting and self-reporting affect interpretation.

Topics without fully comparable statistics

For some areas of health, surveys and registry information exist, but not yet figures that can be compared consistently from year to year. This does not mean we lack knowledge about the conditions.

Sources and further reading

Explore original statistics

Here you will find links to statistics from FHI, the Norwegian Directorate of Health, Statistics Norway and Health Atlas. This is an overview of external data sources, not charts produced by Tidlignok. We describe what the sources contain and the limitations you should know about. Figures from different sources cannot always be compared directly.

When comparing sources, it is important to check who the figures describe, the period measured, and whether the data count patients, treatments or waiting times.