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Key figures:
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| Number of Sami, estimate: |
| Key figures within the application area of the Sami Parliament subsidy schemes for business development, 2011: |
| Population (2011) | 37 890 |
| Employment, per cent | 64 |
| Higher education, per cent | 17.5 |
| Key figures, Norway, 2010: |
| Sami electoral roll (2009) | 13 890 |
| Children in Sami kindergartens | 1 050 |
| Sami as language (elementary school) | 890 |
| Sami as second language (elementary school) | 1 290 |
| Persons associated with reindeer herding | 3 020 |
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Sami electoral roll
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A separate electoral roll known as the Sami electoral roll has been established, which is used for Sameting elections. All Norwegian Sami aged over 18, or who turn 18 in the election year, can register to vote at Sameting elections. This also applies to Sami from Finland and Sweden who are registered as resident in Norway, and Sami from Russia who have been registered as resident in Norway for 3 years.
The criteria that need to be met in order to vote in the Sameting elections in Norway are the most natural definition to use in Norway.
- The person regards himself to be Sami.
- The person must have Sami as their home language, or at least one of their parents, grandparents or great-grandparents must have or have had Sami as their home language.
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| Sami in Norway |
The Sami are an indigenous people who live in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Because there is no overall registration of the Sami population, no one knows exactly how many Sami there are today. The Sami are scattered throughout the country, but the most concentrated Sami settlement areas are north of Saltfjellet. The Sami in Norway have three different languages: Northern Sami, Lule Sami and Southern Sami.
Data sources. Because there is no overall registration of the Sami population, it is difficult to generate statistics on the Sami as a group. The statistics here have been drawn up based on the geographic range for the application area of the Sami Parliament subsidy schemes for business development. The Sami population south of Saltfjellet is not included in the statistics since the Sami settlement here is so spread out that areas with Sami settlements are not regarded as Sami local communities, and it would be difficult to create geographically-based statistics from this. One result of such a geographic division is that persons within the application area of the Sami Parliament subsidy schemes for business development that do not regard themselves as Sami, are included in the statistics. Correspondingly, Sami who live outside the application area of the Sami Parliament subsidy schemes for business development are not included.
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The application area of the Sami Parliament subsidy schemes for business development, accounts for around 50 per cent of the area in Norway north of Saltfjellet, but has only 10 per cent of the population. The area mainly consists of sparsely populated regions, with only 0.8 persons per km2. Only 4 per cent live in densely populated regions. In the rest of the area north of Saltfjellet, 96 per cent of the population lives in densely populated areas, and there are 7.5 persons per km2.
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Around a quarter of the population in the application area of the Sami Parliament subsidy schemes for business development are aged 60 or older, while in the country as a whole, a fifth of the population is in this age group.
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The fertility among women in the application area of the Sami Parliament subsidy schemes for business development has been higher until 2002 than for women in the rest of the country, but after 2002 it has been lower in six of the eight years.
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Life expectancy is somewhat lower for both sex in the application area of the Sami Parliament subsidy schemes for business development than for the whole country. At birth, girls in the application area of the Sami Parliament subsidy schemes for business development can expect to live until they reach 81.6 years of age, and boys 77.0 years. Life expectancy is also lower than the rest of the area north of Saltfjellet.
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Around four out of five persons in the application area of the Sami Parliament subsidy schemes for business development are educated to the equivalent of compulsory schooling or upper secondary level. The level of education is lower than for other areas north of Saltfjellet and in the rest of the country.
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Sixty-four per cent of persons aged 15-74 in the application area of the Sami Parliament subsidy schemes for business development are in employment. This figure is somewhat lower than for the rest of the area north of Saltfjellet. The majority of the men work in wholesale and retail trade, hotels and restaurants, while the majority of women work in health and social services.
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There are almost as many women as men in reindeer herding. Seven out of ten persons who are connected to reindeer herding live in the application area of the Sami Parliament subsidy schemes for business development. Most of them live in Finnmark county.
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Statistics in SSB
International statistics of indigenous people
Sami research in Norway
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