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The shares and capital returns statistics show which sectors receive dividends and own shares. Sharp increase in dividends in 2013.

Shares and dividend payments, 2013, preliminary figures

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Strong increase in dividends

Limited companies’ dividend payments rose sharply in 2013, reaching almost NOK 300 billion. Companies in the mining and quarrying industry accounted for one third of this amount.

Received dividends, by holding sector. Main figuresPublished 23 June 2014
201320132012 - 2013
NOK millionSharePer cent
Sum all holding sectors298 65010029
Non-financial corporations140 0334779
Financial corporations19 440719
General government31 959119
Non-profit institutions serving households1 2360-2
Households34 770126
Rest of the world71 14924-3
Unspecified sector620-6

Source: Statistics Norway

The lion’s share of the dividend went to corporations in the non-financial sector, which received NOK 140 billion; almost half of the total proceeds. This was an increase of 79 per cent compared with 2012. Corporations in the financial sector received NOK 19 billion; an increase of 19 per cent.

Nearly a quarter of the total dividend, or NOK 71 billion, went to foreign shareholders. This was about the same as in 2012. More than NOK 20 billion was sent to shareholders in the Netherlands, NOK 12 billion to France and NOK 9 billion to both the UK and Sweden.

The general government was paid NOK 32 billion. Compared with the previous year, this was an increase of NOK 2.8 billion or just over 9 per cent.

Households received nearly NOK 35 billion, which was an increase of 6 per cent. Male shareholders took 82 per cent of the dividend, while women received 18 per cent. Thirty per cent of the dividend paid to individual shareholders went to those aged 50-59 years, and 86 per cent of the amount in this age group was paid to men.