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by foxglacier 355 days ago
Yea that's practically nothing, even accounting for your population. It's $2/person compared to NASA's pre-cut budget of about $80/person/year. Where are all these other countries that might pick up the slack? Seems nobody else in the world wants to pay for science. They might complain about American science funding cuts but are happy to keep their already tiny science budgets tiny.

Norway's overall science budget is $1 billion per year, or $200/person/year. US's was $200 billion/year or $600/person/year. So Norway isn't really pulling its weight.
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magicalhippo 354 days ago
Where did you get that $1 billion figure from? From what I can see[1][2], it's more like $4.6 billion? In that case it would be more like $920/person/year.

[1]: https://www.fpol.no/det-norske-statsbudsjettet-2025-gir-en-n...

[2]: https://nifu.brage.unit.no/nifu-xmlui/handle/11250/3166076 (second page, first section)

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foxglacier 353 days ago
I've lost it now, some site said 10 billion NOKs. Maybe it's classified in different ways. Either way, Norway is spending more on science than typical countries. Surprising if it's more per capita than the US though.
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magicalhippo 351 days ago
> Maybe it's classified in different ways.

This was my leading thought as well.

> Surprising if it's more per capita than the US though.

Well we do have these pipes in the ocean that spew money... Our oil fund is currently contributing 25% of the national budget, despite being below the somewhat stringent self-imposed spending rule[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_budgetary_rule

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