Population Register

Information about all persons registered in Norway

Population Register

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Documentation

Retrieve Identity Data with Population Register API. The Population Register API provides verified identity and residency information, helping businesses strengthen due diligence, meet AML/KYC requirements, and prevent fraud. It enables secure, compliant decision-making by ensuring access to up-to-date personal data. With this API, you can:

Retrieve address information, names, relationships, and historical data from social security numbers
Create frictionless B2C onboarding and checkout flows
Verify individual identities for risk assessments

Use case:

A financial institution onboarding a new private (B2C) customer uses the Population Register API to instantly verify the customer's identity and address, ensuring fast, secure registration while meeting compliance requirements. The sandbox examples are shown as they would look for a bank user (authority level “FINANS”)

Find person by unambiguous search

By personId and name
Name and birthDate
Name, street and houseNumber
Name, street and zipCode

Find person by personId*

Retrieve latest version of person information by personId

Permission Skattetaten

In order to get access to the government managed API’s for population registry information you need a permission from the tax authority (Skattetaten). Roaring will help you with the application process towards Skattetaten.

Status Codes

Below is a list of available Status codes. The information is displayed as a code with a descriptive text.

Person status in Norwegian Population Register

Code	Description NO	Description EN
RESIDENT	Bosatt	Legal resident in Norway for at least six months
EMIGRATED	Utflyttet	Moved from Norway
DEAD	Død	Dead
EXPIRED	Opphørt	No longer has a valid person Id
ACTIVE	Aktiv	Active registration where no other status is applicable
TEMPORARY	Midlertidig	Temporarily registered in Norway
INACTIVE	Inaktiv	Inactive registration
BIRTH_REGISTERED*	Fødselsregistrert	Born in Norway but is not registered as resident
MISSING*	Forsvunnet	Missing person
NON_RESIDENT*	Ikke bosatt	Not resident in Norway

*Extended permission is required

Status of the Person Identifier

Code	Description NO	Description EN
ACTIVE	I bruk	Person Id is valid and in active use for a physical person
EXPIRED	Opphørt	Person Id is unvalid and not in use

Country codes

Country codes are in ISO 3166 standard. If the country code is part of an address, alpha-2 is used. If the country code does not refer to an address, alpha-3 is used.

In addition to the ISO 3166 standard, the below country codes are possible:

Code	Description (English)	Description (Norwegian)
XXX	Stateless	Statsløs
XUK	Unknown	Ukjent
XXK	Kosovo	Kosovo
UNO	UN Organisation	UN Organisation
XX	Kosovo	Kosovo
YK	Unknown	Ukjent

Endpoints

Find current person information by personId

gethttps://api.roaring.io/no/person/2.0/{personId}

Parameters path

personId

required

string

person id

Parameters query

`history`	boolean history
`noWrap`	boolean no wrapper

Response schema: application/json

Find current person information by unambiguous search

gethttps://api.roaring.io/no/person/2.0/findone

Parameters query

`personId`	string person id
`name`	string person name
`birthDate`	string person birth date
`street`	string street name
`houseNumber`	string house number
`zipCode`	string postal number
`history`	boolean history

Find person information by unambiguous search

gethttps://api.roaring.io/no/person/2.0/history/findone

Parameters query

`personId`	string person id
`name`	string person name
`birthDate`	string person birth date
`street`	string street name
`houseNumber`	string house number
`zipCode`	string postal number

Find person information by personId

gethttps://api.roaring.io/no/person/2.0/history/{personId}

Parameters path

personId

required

string

person id