Befolkningers

Befolkning is a term used in Scandinavian languages to denote the population of a country, region, or community. Befolkningers is the genitive plural form of befolkning, meaning “of populations” or more loosely “populations’.” The expression is common in demography, statistics, and academic writing when the data refer to multiple populations or to the population as an abstract group being described or compared.

Morphology and usage vary slightly by language. In Norwegian Bokmål, the base noun is befolkning, with plural befolkninger and definite plural befolkningene; the genitive plural is befolkningers. In Danish, befolkning has plural befolkninger and genitive befolkningers. In Swedish, befolkning has plural befolkningar and genitive befolkningars. The form befolkningers signals possession or attribution to more than one population, rather than a single population.

Common contexts for befolkningers appear in statistical reporting and scholarly analysis. Examples include befolkningers sammensetning (the composition of populations), befolkningers aldersstruktur (age structure of populations), or befolkningers utdanning (education levels across populations). This phrasing highlights comparative or aggregate characteristics across groups rather than focusing on a single, specific population.

Related concepts include befolkning (population), demografi (demography), and statistikk (statistics). Understanding befolkningers as a grammatical form helps in interpreting study results and official reports that discuss multiple populations or cross-group comparisons in Scandinavian sources.