Denmark vs Norway: Percentage of one-person households

Denmark

44.1%

in 2018

Norway

45.8%

in 2018

Denmark rank

2nd

Norway rank

1st

Percentage of one-person households over time

Denmark
Norway

How they compare

Norway currently reports 45.8% against 44.1% in Denmark, a difference of 1.7%.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 16 shared years of data; in 2003 it was Denmark ahead.

Denmark ranks 2nd and Norway ranks 1st of 67 countries.

Individual pages

Percentage of one-person households in Denmark
Percentage of one-person households in Norway
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Percentage of one-person households
Unit: %
Source: UN, national statistical agencies, OECD, and Deutschland in Daten (2021) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 67 places, 726 data points, 1960–2018
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Number of one-person households as a share of the total number of households. Estimates combine multiple sources, including cross-country surveys and census data.