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From 2010 to 2024, the share of Norwegian households which owned a cat remained steady at around ****. By comparison, over this period, around ** percent of households owned at least one dog. Cats seemed to be a very popular pet in Norway; the number increased recently and peaked in 2021 and 2022 at ** animals.  

 Pet cats in Sweden

In Norway’s neighboring country Sweden, the situation was similar. Since 2012, the share of households owning at least one cat remained between ** and ** percent, while ** to ** percent of Swedish households owned a dog. In this country, too, cats were more common to have as a pet than dogs. As of 2024, there were around **** million pet cats registered in Sweden.

Pet cats in Denmark

The population of pet cats in Denmark in 2023 was estimated to be **. Unlike in Norway and Sweden, the share of households owning cats as a pet in this year was much lower than households owning a pet dog. It is striking that the situation was different before. From 2016 to 2019, the share of households owning at least one dog remained stable at around ** percent, while it was about ** percent for pet cats.