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1. Make $100 from selling oil. 2. Use the money to buy other local services.

There, now your GDP is just 50% oil.

Which is why we don't do that[1].

Equinor still pays salaries & dividends last i checked

Oil industry is about 6% of Norwegian employment.

For sure, it's a huge part of Norway and shouldn't be overlooked, but it's specious to compare it directly to a country like Saudi Arabia.