Statistics Norway

Accounts for joint stock companies

1   Number of joint-stock companies
  1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 20051
All non-financial joint-stock companies  124 241  129 733  134 564  135 271  137 488  137 389  140 553  139 344
Information sector 9 335 10 111 11 048 11 110 11 251 29 581 9 577 9 118
ICT-sector 6 206 6 802 7 683 7 864 8 081 26 465 6 469 6 179
ICT-Manufacturing industry  303  302  302  308  312  318  328  317
ICT-Wholesale2 2 974 3 058 3 092 2 997 2 948 21 418 1 383 1 300
Telecommunications  222  248  315  318  349  419  463  485
ICT-Consultancy services 2 707 3 194 3 974 4 241 4 472 4 310 4 295 4 077
Content sector 3 129 3 309 3 365 3 246 3 170 3 116 3 108 2 939
Publishing industries 1 067 1 119 1 147 1 127 1 101 1 085 1 116 1 063
Information services 1 496 1 584 1 594 1 500 1 445 1 423 1 383 1 305
Radio and television  210  213  210  198  201  193  174  168
Motion picture and video activities  356  393  414  421  423  415  435  403
1  Preliminary figures.
2  The delimitation of ICT-Wholesale is changed on and after 2003 because of changes in the industrial classification standard, see about statistics.

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