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Population by immigrant category and country background.
	2015
	Born in Norway to Norwegian-born parents¹	Immigrants	Norwegian-born to immigrant parents	Foreign-born with one Norwegian-born parent	Norwegian-born with one foreign-born parent	Foreign-born to Norwegian-born parents
¹The foreign country background is related to grandparents’ country of birth. The person can have 1 to 4 grandparents born abroad. Grandmother / grandfather's country of birth is selected first if there are different countries of birth for grandparents.
Total	4 046 190	669 380	135 583	34 513	242 217	37 919
Norway	3 874 281	0	0	0	0	0
Denmark	30 482	19 973	1 763	3 896	30 417	1 293
Greenland	96	194	10	58	183	30
Finland	5 249	6 336	558	442	6 718	53
Faroe Islands	1 467	764	80	103	1 181	19
Iceland	1 842	7 924	736	322	2 969	51
Sweden	31 898	36 887	2 229	6 552	36 909	5 417
Albania	36	948	170	1	177	5
Belgium	912	1 125	87	254	1 051	273
Bulgaria	55	5 681	397	24	714	30
Andorra	0	11	0	0	3	0
Estonia	152	5 067	351	38	562	2
France	1 745	5 228	428	720	3 452	317
Gibraltar	2	1	0	5	13	0
Greece	360	2 060	78	172	937	38
Belarus	11	983	128	5	268	3
Ireland	386	990	43	95	861	25
Croatia	409	3 348	718	21	771	5
Italy	1 202	3 525	174	313	1 974	104
Latvia	140	9 602	730	31	561	11
Malta	40	76	5	17	71	2
Netherlands	3 564	7 589	829	758	5 180	311
Liechtenstein	7	21	3	2	4	0
Luxembourg	31	40	0	29	42	66
Monaco	4	10	0	1	6	2
Poland	2 250	90 962	8 462	255	5 159	65
Portugal	228	2 810	174	91	710	15
Romania	202	11 923	1 233	27	1 162	146
San Marino	0	4	3	0	1	0
Lithuania	28	35 901	3 404	40	857	1
Spain	1 489	5 361	264	598	2 515	168
Moldova	0	769	73	1	100	0
United Kingdom	14 981	14 294	829	3 748	19 577	1 229
Russia	456	16 803	2 611	190	3 351	212
Switzerland	1 284	1 326	142	531	1 698	334
Turkey	537	11 049	6 559	102	3 279	24
Germany	12 416	24 611	2 554	2 471	14 377	868
Slovenia	58	371	36	5	108	0
Ukraine	66	4 181	442	55	901	2
Hungary	1 960	3 600	592	72	1 496	269
Austria	1 439	1 211	71	245	1 464	103
Vatican City State	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnia-Herzegovina	172	13 453	3 708	8	1 306	1
Macedonia	145	2 503	1 226	12	589	1
Slovakia	97	3 834	335	9	268	0
Czech Republic	782	2 102	253	39	871	13
Serbia	390	4 012	841	22	700	13
Montenegro	16	389	121	1	49	1
Kosovo	124	10 016	4 699	18	1 105	5
Guernsey	0	3	0	0	0	0
Jersey	0	1	0	0	0	0
Isle of Man	0	0	0	0	0	0
Algeria	223	1 198	489	14	625	3
Angola	14	472	64	12	162	3
Botswana	9	70	5	30	61	19
Saint Helena	20	2	0	2	16	0
British Indian Ocean Territory	2	1	0	0	2	0
Burundi	0	1 081	311	2	64	2
Comoros	3	4	1	0	2	0
Benin	0	27	2	1	5	0
Equatorial Guinea	0	12	1	0	0	0
Côte d'Ivore	23	265	51	8	150	33
Eritrea	169	14 741	2 393	20	311	103
Ethiopia	419	6 716	1 839	105	571	819
Egypt	215	1 038	180	37	501	11
Djibouti	4	54	42	0	7	0
Gabon	0	8	0	1	7	0
Gambia	96	1 153	501	9	727	0
Ghana	35	1 855	688	18	523	10
Guinea	10	234	62	0	38	0
Guinea-Bissau	1	54	8	1	28	0
Cameroon	242	550	121	10	194	130
Cape Verde	230	395	126	6	276	7
Kenya	237	1 521	246	153	791	194
Congo-Brazzaville	24	221	56	6	39	8
Congo	182	2 230	523	21	223	57
Lesotho	0	9	0	2	7	0
Liberia	66	959	274	14	110	34
Libya	10	498	104	5	69	4
Madagascar	924	198	31	51	463	225
Malawi	1	83	3	7	18	0
Mali	1	36	17	1	25	13
Morocco	546	5 517	3 879	45	2 223	10
Western Sahara	0	41	0	0	6	0
Mauritania	0	56	0	1	9	1
Mauritius	68	175	48	12	165	0
Namibia	9	70	4	10	47	4
Niger	0	47	10	3	28	0
Nigeria	76	1 717	447	18	617	15
Mozambique	27	164	15	16	89	9
Mayotte	0	0	0	0	0	0
Réunion	0	4	0	1	1	0
Zimbabwe	39	235	34	28	123	27
Rwanda	7	623	168	1	55	7
Sao Tome and Principe	0	3	0	0	0	0
Senegal	3	237	68	8	101	4
Central African Republic	0	19	4	0	0	0
Seychelles	6	10	1	2	19	0
Sierra Leone	40	507	157	6	185	2
Somalia	27	27 333	10 298	10	738	7
Spanish territories in Africa	0	0	0	0	0	0
South Sudan	2	176	14	1	2	1
Sudan	25	3 123	556	2	115	7
Swaziland	16	5	0	4	16	6
South Africa	1 033	926	60	227	1 014	299
Tanzania	109	708	143	69	377	95
Chad	0	20	4	1	2	0
Togo	3	114	46	1	25	1
Tunisia	151	979	357	24	718	9
Uganda	80	1 052	211	38	369	10
Zambia	43	353	40	56	191	37
Burkina Faso	0	32	2	0	17	0
Afghanistan	7	13 440	2 880	1	133	0
Armenia	11	316	45	1	27	3
Azerbaijan	2	507	103	6	59	2
Bahrain	0	14	4	10	18	6
Bangladesh	172	860	292	9	149	130
Bhutan	0	360	21	1	9	7
Brunei	2	14	3	3	5	16
Myanmar	9	3 402	641	1	49	1
Sri Lanka	242	9 111	5 921	56	943	183
United Arab Emirates	3	255	85	41	33	75
Philippines	975	19 076	2 022	826	8 000	633
Georgia	0	317	39	3	46	0
Taiwan	92	238	31	19	115	73
Hong Kong	291	680	198	56	290	144
India	1 281	10 506	3 581	185	1 719	1 296
Indonesia	394	1 278	231	80	598	182
Iraq	49	21 965	8 695	20	1 089	12
Iran	205	16 608	3 712	37	2 402	35
Israel	171	642	75	138	687	35
Japan	652	912	60	164	731	303
Jordan	33	391	192	6	96	2
Cambodia	17	423	170	11	82	3
Kazakhstan	19	899	122	7	122	0
China	1 224	8 252	1 732	486	1 586	2 589
North Korea	13	28	11	1	4	10
South Korea	3 616	1 037	84	395	1 438	6 036
Kuwait	3	355	130	13	59	5
Cyprus	67	163	5	24	161	5
Kyrgyzstan	0	185	26	2	40	0
Laos	0	99	14	1	41	0
Lebanon	122	1 805	909	38	613	14
Macao	0	80	10	1	9	0
Malaysia	95	652	75	63	327	35
Maldives	0	5	1	0	5	0
Mongolia	0	129	23	4	31	8
Oman	0	29	0	13	9	12
Palestine	77	3 337	610	34	203	8
Nepal	27	1 465	109	14	106	78
Pakistan	1 078	19 219	15 973	118	5 035	20
Timor-Leste	0	15	0	0	4	0
Qatar	1	32	11	5	4	20
Saudi Arabia	4	407	102	21	36	28
Singapore	131	397	39	136	286	209
Tajikistan	0	104	17	0	35	0
Turkmenistan	18	74	16	0	12	0
Uzbekistan	5	474	61	1	52	0
Syria	37	5 450	986	6	226	3
Thailand	376	16 555	759	844	6 796	390
Vietnam	536	13 701	8 360	81	1 953	201
Yemen	0	337	89	2	13	1
United States Virgin Islands	28	1	0	1	14	1
Barbados	11	20	0	2	23	0
Antigua and Barbuda	0	4	0	0	6	0
Belize	5	12	0	0	15	0
Bahamas	11	10	0	4	8	4
Bermuda	4	4	0	4	7	3
British Virgin Islands	1	1	0	1	3	3
Canada	3 334	1 751	77	578	2 777	680
Cayman Islands	0	5	2	0	2	0
Costa Rica	102	138	7	43	125	97
Cuba	19	929	86	31	497	4
Dominica	0	18	9	0	20	0
Dominican Republic	18	751	132	43	309	2
Franske Antiller	0	0	0	0	0	0
Grenada	15	15	2	3	23	0
Guadeloupe	0	3	0	1	4	0
Guatemala	128	180	18	51	173	214
Haiti	5	33	1	5	20	2
Honduras	30	101	18	10	98	5
Jamaica	38	138	16	13	148	5
Martinique	0	7	1	0	9	0
Mexico	133	1 104	68	101	777	21
Montserrat	0	1	1	0	0	0
Aruba	26	10	0	2	26	3
Sint Maarten	0	2	0	0	0	0
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	0	0	0	0	0	0
Anguilla	0	0	0	0	0	0
Curaçao	48	26	5	20	37	14
Nicaragua	16	156	14	22	109	12
Panama	9	54	3	4	45	2
El Salvador	7	199	52	4	80	0
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	0	0	2	0	1
Saint Lucia	4	12	2	2	10	1
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	6	5	0	0	6	0
Trinidad and Tobago	310	262	11	57	407	31
Turks and Caicos Islands	0	1	0	0	0	0
United States	26 418	8 379	353	4 104	18 023	4 916
Puerto Rico	1	23	2	5	26	1
Saint Martin	0	1	0	0	0	0
Saint Barthélemy	0	0	0	0	0	0
Argentina	558	872	81	129	766	71
Bolivia	87	292	32	56	232	186
Brazil	378	4 169	209	484	2 313	515
Guyana	54	78	6	7	112	1
Chile	773	6 241	1 715	161	3 607	269
Colombia	1 009	1 820	157	289	1 076	3 576
Ecuador	149	488	55	45	354	225
Falkland Islands	0	1	2	0	0	0
French Guiana	0	4	0	0	1	0
Paraguay	37	103	6	22	79	27
Peru	133	1 237	143	82	820	167
Suriname	18	36	4	1	43	0
Uruguay	54	212	24	19	175	8
Venezuela	45	997	78	49	286	18
American Samoa	4	0	0	1	4	1
Australia	839	1 489	46	435	1 481	241
Solomon Islands	1	6	1	0	6	0
Christmas Island	5	0	0	0	0	1
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cook Islands	4	1	0	2	6	0
Fiji	12	34	0	7	37	0
Vanuatu	0	1	0	0	2	0
Tonga	7	5	0	0	9	0
French Polynesia	5	6	0	2	7	0
Kiribati	0	1	0	1	1	0
Tuvalu	0	1	0	0	1	0
Guam	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nauru	0	0	0	0	0	0
United States Minor Outlying Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0
New Zealand	251	512	16	98	532	23
Niue	0	0	0	0	0	0
Norfolk Island	0	0	0	0	0	0
Territory of New Guinea	0	0	0	0	0	0
Micronesia, Federated States of	14	1	0	0	7	0
Papua New Guinea	1	4	0	2	2	2
Pitcairn	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tokelau	0	0	0	0	0	0
Samoa	0	3	0	1	3	0
Wallis and Futuna Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0
New Caledonia	7	4	0	4	6	0
Marshall Islands	0	1	0	0	0	0
Palau	0	2	0	0	2	0
Northern Mariana Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0

StatBank source table 01451