Norwegian Humanist Association

Norwegian Humanist Association

Human-Etisk Forbund
Abbreviation	HEF
Formation	9 April 1956; 68 years ago (1956-04-09)
Region served	mainly Norway
Membership	150.000 (2024)[1]
President	Christian Lomsdalen
Website	human.no

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The Norwegian Humanist Association (Norwegian: Human-Etisk Forbund; HEF) is one of the largest secular humanist associations in the world, with over 130,000 members.^[1] Those members constitute 2.3% of the national population of 5.47 million,^[2] making HEF by far the largest such association in the world in proportion to population. The association publishes the magazine Fri tanke (Free Thought).