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    6 days ago

    or alternatively they are just that rich

    It’s this one. They do tax highly - not necessarily the highest, but up there - but they’re also ranked near the top of GDP per capita and labour productivity. Oil definitely does give Norway specifically an extra leg up, but the broader picture is similar across all of the Nordic countries (although I’m not so sure on the Faroe Islands, and Greenland is quite different)