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    "ocrText": "SECRET\nAPPENDIX C\nPOPULATION STATISTICS AND CHARACTERISTICS\nNorway, with its 3,123,000 inhabitants (according to official 1947\nestimates), is the least densely populated of the European states. An extreme-\nly favorable factor in relation to Norway's population is its homogeneity. The\ncommon heritage of the Scandinavian peoples is an additional stabilizing fac-\ntor influencing all of Scandinavia. About 20 different dialects are spoken in\nthe various districts of Norway, but their variance is not significant, and\nisolation due to language barriers is nonexistent. The inhabitants of Finnmark\n(Lapps) are about 1% of the population and constitute Norway's only significant\nracial minority.\nMore than a century of freedom and peace (prior to 1940) has so tem-\npered their Viking heritage that the Norwegians are now definitely not a war-\nlike people. Norway has, however, produced for centuries a people of great\nphysical hardiness and self-sufficient temperament. A tremendous interest in\noutdoor sports from a participating rather than a spectator standpoint further.\nadds to their vigorous existence. The lack of interest in work which has been\nprevalent since liberation is an outgrowth of the deliberate slowdown and sabo-\ntage practiced during the German occupation as. is the wave of thievery of youths\nbrought up under Nazi domination. It will be some time before such effects of\nthe occupation are eliminated.\nThe latest official figures available (1930) show a population distri-\nbution between rural and urban areas of 2,013,680 and 800,000, respectively.\nThere has been a significant shift in population since 1930 toward the larger\ntowns and cities, but the predominant rural aspect is not changed.\nEducational standards are high, especially in the colleges and uni-\nversities, and compulsory education has almost eliminated illiteracy. Since\nuniversities are subsidized by the State, poorer members of the community can\nacquire an education. Completion of a secondary education equivalent to a high\nschool education in the US implies among other things the successful completion\nof seven years' study of some foreign language, among which English is a popu-\nlar choice. In 1943 about 5,800 students were attending schools of higher\nlearning.\nThe homogeneity of religious belief (98% of Norway's population is\nLutheran) is noteworthy because there is no legal compulsion to belong to the\nestablished church except for the King who must absolutely be of the Lutheran\nfaith. There is complete religious toleration, the comparatively few non-Luth-\nerans being permitted to worship as they please.\nDECLASSIFIED\nE. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and S(D) or (E)\nC.I.A.\n2-15-77\nOSD letter, April 12,1974\nNLT- HC s NARS Date 6-7-77\n/\nC-1\nSECRET"
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