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Statistics Norway (SSB)

Name: Statistics Norway (SSB)
License: CC-BY-4.0

Access to SSB's statistics bank with more than 6,000 tables. Covers macroeconomics, population, the labour market, prices, wages, education and health. All data is open and available via the JSON-stat API.

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Data volume

Monthly

Updates

MCP tools

Example response — /tables

{
  "dataset": "09189",
  "label": "Konsumprisindeks (2015=100)",
  "dimension": {
    "Tid": "2026M03",
    "ContentsCode": "KpiTotalIndeks"
  },
  "value": 131.2
}

MCP integration

Available MCP tools

ssb.indicator

ssb.microdata.preset_query

ssb.tables.data

ssb.tables.list

ssb.tables.metadata

Configuration for Claude Desktop / Cursor

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ssb": {
      "url": "https://data.ketl.no/mcp/ssb",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer $KETL_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Analysis apps that use this source

Ready-made tools built on Statistics Norway (SSB) data. Use them directly in the browser, or wire the same data into your own analysis via the API below.

Nordic democracy

Compare the Norwegian, Swedish and Danish parliaments side by side — seat distribution derived live from the member registers, with majority threshold, fragmentation and smallest majority coalition, plus election results and concurrent legislation across Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

Bankruptcy barometer

Bankruptcy trends by industry and region in Norway.

Municipality profile

A complete profile for a single Norwegian municipality — key figures, population trends and business activity gathered from SSB, Brreg and KOSTRA. To compare several municipalities side by side, use Kommune-sammenligning or Kommuneøkonomi.

Municipality comparison

Side-by-side comparison of 2–3 Norwegian municipalities on population, area, employment, median income and unrestricted revenues. Direct deep links to the SSB tables per indicator.

Macroeconomics

GDP, inflation, unemployment, policy rate and exchange rates.

Construction and housing

Building, housing and property tables from SSB's StatBank, fetched live — title, period and subject come from the source itself.

Unemployment

Labour market tables from SSB's StatBank, fetched live — title, period and subject come from the source itself, alongside NAV key figures.

Labour market

Live labour-market dashboard: LFS unemployment, absolute number of unemployed, monthly earnings and Nordic comparison from Eurostat — with Swedish labour demand from Arbetsförmedlingen. Built on the SSB indicator aliases and open Nordic APIs.

Foreign trade

External economy tables from SSB's StatBank, fetched live — title, period and subject come from the source itself.

Vehicle search

The vehicle fleet in Norwegian municipalities from SSB — counts per vehicle group, brand distribution, charging point coverage and the national fuel-type trend. Single lookups by licence plate require a separate agreement with Statens vegvesen.

Nordic statistics

Search statistical tables from SSB (NO), SCB (SE), Statistics Denmark (DK), Tilastokeskus (FI) and Hagstofa Íslands (IS) — find and explore official Nordic statistics on business, the economy, population and more.

SSB statistics bank

Search and explore all available statistical tables from Statistics Norway (SSB) — find tables by topic, period and keyword via SSB's open PxWebApi v2.

SSB population

Population tables from SSB's StatBank, fetched live — title, period and subject come from the source itself.

Transport statistics

Transport tables from SSB's StatBank, fetched live — title, period and subject come from the source itself.

API endpoints

GET

/tables

Søk i statistikkbanken

query optional: Fritekstfilter på tabelltittel/innhold
title optional: Filtrer på tabelltittel (kun tittel — bruk query for tittel+beskrivelse) title=Import
subject optional: SSBs toppnivå-emne (paths[i][0].id). Verdimengden hentes fra katalogen og returneres i allowed[] ved ugyldig verdi. Kombinerbar med query og title. subject=ut
lang optional: Språk for titler/metadata lang=no
page optional: Sidenummer for paginering
pageSize optional: Antall tabeller per side

Show curl example

# GET https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/ssb/tables
curl \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/ssb/tables"

Authenticated call — add one of these headers: x-api-key: ketl_… · Authorization: Bearer … — See the full reference in the documentation.

GET

/tables/{id}/metadata

Hent tabell-metadata

lang optional: Språk for etiketter og variabelnavn. Verdimengden er MÅLT lukket hos SSB 2026-08-19: no/en → 200, sv/nb/nn → 400 (#5837). lang=en

Show curl example

# GET https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/ssb/tables/{id}/metadata
curl \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/ssb/tables/{id}/metadata"

Authenticated call — add one of these headers: x-api-key: ketl_… · Authorization: Bearer … — See the full reference in the documentation.

GET

/tables/{id}

Hent tabell-metadata (alias for /tables/{id}/metadata)

lang optional: Språk for etiketter og variabelnavn (samme som /tables/{id}/metadata — aliasene deler handler). lang=en

Show curl example

# GET https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/ssb/tables/{id}
curl \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/ssb/tables/{id}"

Authenticated call — add one of these headers: x-api-key: ketl_… · Authorization: Bearer … — See the full reference in the documentation.

GET

/{id}

Hent tabell-metadata (kort alias for /tables/{id}/metadata)

lang optional: Språk for etiketter og variabelnavn (samme som /tables/{id}/metadata — aliasene deler handler). lang=en

Show curl example

# GET https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/ssb/{id}
curl \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/ssb/{id}"

Authenticated call — add one of these headers: x-api-key: ketl_… · Authorization: Bearer … — See the full reference in the documentation.

POST

/tables/{id}/data

Hent tabelldata (JSON-stat)

Show curl example

# POST https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/ssb/tables/{id}/data
curl -X POST \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/ssb/tables/{id}/data"

Authenticated call — add one of these headers: x-api-key: ketl_… · Authorization: Bearer … — See the full reference in the documentation.

GET

/indicator

Forenklet makro-indikator-API. Krever ?id= (f.eks. cpi, gdp, unemployment-aku); ?search= søker i registeret og ?list=true lister alle alias.

id required: Indikator-alias (cpi, gdp, unemployment-aku, …) — påkrevd med mindre ?list=true eller ?search= er satt id=cpi
list optional: Lister alle tilgjengelige alias list=true
search optional: Fritekstsøk i indikator-registeret (alias og navn) — returnerer treffliste i stedet for observasjoner search=kpi
months optional: Antall siste perioder (1–240, standard 24). ALIAS: quarters, years — samme verdi; periodetypen bestemmes av indikatorens frequency, ikke av navnet. months=36
quarters optional: Alias for months (1–240, standard 24) — samme verdi, ikke en egen periodetype. quarters=12
years optional: Alias for months (1–240, standard 24) — samme verdi, ikke en egen periodetype. years=10

Show curl example

# GET https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/ssb/indicator?id=cpi
curl \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "https://data.ketl.no/api/connectors/ssb/indicator?id=cpi"

Authenticated call — add one of these headers: x-api-key: ketl_… · Authorization: Bearer … — See the full reference in the documentation.

Access and pricing

Statistics Norway (SSB) is openly available — create an account to get started.

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