That's why you compare the crimes commited per capita. The demographics of Norway and that of the USA is nothing alike.
So yes I was comparing per-capita. However Norway is so tiny that fluctuations of even +/- 50% year-to-year are likely to be just noise.
A tiny country may have one homicide one year, then three the next. Or as a journalist would put it: "Murders in Norway skyrocket. Up 200%."
I don't think it's a fair comparison just because absolute population is similar.
If Norway had the same homicide rate as the whole of the US in 2019 (as it doesn't seem they've release the 2020 ones yet), according to the FBI[1] the homicide rate in the US was 5.0 murders per 100,000 people. Norway has a population of 5.4 million.
So for Norway, that would have been 270.
Does that seem like a fluctuation?
You're severely misrepresenting the facts as your figures are out by two orders of magnitude.
[1]https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-....
That's an order of magnitude off from the homicide rate of the US, which you just quoted.
Why are you even using the US' homicide rate and applying it to Norway?
because they are considered simarly developed countries, but as far as violence stats go (especially gun violence) USA is more comparable to developing countries.
But also a population 12 times larger than Norway (60 million people).
Los Angeles and Norway have a comparable population, in Los Angeles in 2020 there have been 300 homicides, a 20% increase over 2019, despite covid. It's more than the whole Italy that stopped at 271, 14% less than 2019 that ended with 315 homicides.
Los Angeles has the same size of Rome, in Rome there have been "only" 15 homicides in 2020, 20 times less than LA.
US is the outlier in the West, all the other developed countries have comparable homicide rates.
Japan has the lowest rates globally, in 2017 they had 56 times less homicides per capita than in USA.
How developed is the US really? Here's a non exhaustive list of things I and people in my surroundings think moves the US closer to a developing country like India than a developed country.
Democracy wise: Broken voting system
Technology wise: Still using insecure CC and cash only
Healthcare wise: Insurance companies ripping you off
Infrastructure wise: Fiber optics still uncommon, train system is crap
Social security: Friends and family (hopefully) only
Legal system: Carreers are on the line with big cases, so rather than getting to the truth corruption takes over big cases
Freedom: You're free to carry weapons in town that could wipe out the entire mall. (But the government has nukes and tanks, thank god you can shoot them with an assault rifle now)
Education: Only if your parents planned ahead and can afford it, never ending cycle to keep poor people poor (I know there are grants and exceptions)
Religion: Still a significant percent following the person in the clouds.
I've never been to the US, but these are things "Swedes" (My social circle) commonly joke about when talking about the US, seeing videos, news, articles from your media online.
I do realise i might come off as quite arrogant, but this is the picture the US presents, the list from above could probably quite easily be broken down by exceptions and differences between states, It's only there to reflect back what I/we see.