Like us, Norway hit the North Sea oil and gas jackpot in the 1970s... but their politicians created the world's biggest wealth fund - while ours frittered the money away: ROBERT HARDMAN
- Posted on July 31, 2026
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Like us, Norway hit the North Sea oil and gas jackpot in the 1970s... but their politicians created the world's biggest wealth fund - while ours frittered the money away: ROBERT HARDMAN
Norway consistently ranks at the top of the UN Human Development Index. It can do so because, in the 1970s, it hit the same oil jackpot as Britain - but it went in a very different direction.
