> Norwegians until quite recently almost overwhelmingly wanted to own their own their home (over 80% do) https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/sverige-i-siffror/m

> Norwegians until quite recently almost overwhelmingly wanted to own their own their home (over 80% do) https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/sverige-i-siffror/manniskorna-i-sverige/boende-i-sverige/ https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/sverige-i-siffror/mannisk... says that in 2021, of the over 4.8 million Swedish households (which may be multiple people): Småhus, äganderätt / detached house, owner - 1 909 024 = 41.2% Småhus, bostadsrätt / detacted house, co-op owner - 93 678 = 2.02% Småhus, hyresrätt / detached house, rent - 73 654 = 1.59% Flerbostadshus, bostadsrätt / multi-family building, co-op - 1 006 560 = 21.7% Flerbostadshus, hyresrätt / multi-family building, rent - 1 379 720 = 29.8 % Specialbostad / special (student, old-age, etc) - 165 510 = 3.6% If I read https://www.ssb.no/bygg-bolig-og-eiendom/bolig-og-boforhold/statistikk/boforhold-registerbasert https://www.ssb.no/bygg-bolig-og-eiendom/bolig-og-boforhold/... correct (via Google Translate): 48.1% / 1,198,659 households live in single family houses ("Enebolig"). The Swedish "småhus" total is 44.9%. 47% / 1,170,000 or so live in multi-family housing ("Tomannsbolig" / "Rekkehus, kjedehus, andre småhus" / "Boligblokk"), compared to 51.6% in Sweden. 4.9% / 121,486 live in "other", which I'll map to the 3.6% "specialbostad" in Sweden. This matches your observation that more Swedes tend to live in multi-family homes compared to Norwegians, though I don't think it's a substantial difference. (I hope I did my numbers correct!) FWIW, my impression of visiting Oslo is that they mostly live in flats too. grin