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- The national identity number (Norwegian: fødselsnummer, literally "birth number"; Northern Sami: riegádannummir) is a unique eleven-digit unique identifier issued to residents and citizens of Norway. The issuing of the identity number corresponds to being registered in the . The ID number is used throughout government administration and a number of private sector services, in particular banking and insurance. All official IDs, including passports, national ID cards, driving licenses and bank cards contain the National Identity Number. The ID number was introduced in 1964 and issued to everyone who was part of the and has since been issued to anyone born in Norway, resident in Norway and all Norwegian citizens who have been issued a passport. D-numbers (D-nummer), introduced in 1978, allow people which are not resident to be issued an ID number, for instance foreign-resident workers, or foreign land-owners. The ID numbers were initially issued by Statistics Norway, but along with the operation of the Population Register this was turned over to the Norwegian Tax Administration in 1992. It has since become a vital part of e-government services to the population. The number is in the format D1D2M1M2Y1Y2I1I2I3C1C2, where D is day of birth, M is month of birth, Y is the last two digits of the year of birth, I is an individual number and C are two independently calculated checksums. I1 contains information about the century of birth, while the gender is coded in I3 (females are even, males are odd numbers). Increased immigration rates combined with a policy of not reusing numbers will gradually deplete the pool of available numbers. From 2032 additional numbers will become available and the gender coding will be removed. (en)
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