Table

Registered unemployed, by region of birth and time of residence in Norway. Absolute figures and in per cent of persons in total aged 15-74 years in each group¹
	4th quarter 2015				4th quarter 2016
	Total	Settled 4 years and less	Settled 4-6 years	Settled 7 years and more	Total	Settled 4 years and less	Settled 4-6 years	Settled 7 years and more
¹Note that persons used as denominator give a slightly lower level of unemployed compared to percentages based on the the labour force.
²Turkey is included.
Absolute figures
Immigrants, total	29 579	7 708	7 120	14 751	28 695	6 163	7 115	15 417
The Nordic countries	1 493	375	317	801	1 420	308	284	828
Western Europe else	1 834	578	367	889	1 861	476	416	969
EU countries in Eastern Europe	10 521	4 241	3 383	2 897	9 838	3 224	3 319	3 295
Eastern Europe else	2 337	441	338	1 558	2 298	409	311	1 578
North-America and Oceania	220	35	28	157	260	38	42	180
Asia²	7 984	1 056	1 535	5 393	7 818	983	1 383	5 452
Africa	4 195	789	979	2 427	4 233	560	1 170	2 503
South- and Central-Amerika	995	193	173	629	967	165	190	612

Per cent
Immigrants, total	4.7	4.5	6.4	4.3	4.4	3.8	6.1	4.1
The Nordic countries	2.3	2.7	3.3	2.0	2.2	2.6	3.1	2.0
Western Europe else	2.9	3.3	3.8	2.5	2.9	2.9	4.3	2.5
EU countries in Eastern Europe	6.4	6.5	7.0	5.6	5.8	5.8	6.5	5.3
Eastern Europe else	4.5	4.8	6.8	4.1	4.3	4.8	5.7	4.0
North-America and Oceania	2.1	1.2	2.2	2.5	2.4	1.4	3.2	2.7
Asia²	4.4	2.9	6.7	4.5	4.1	2.4	6.2	4.2
Africa	5.6	3.4	7.8	6.2	5.3	2.6	7.7	5.8
South- and Central-Amerika	4.9	4.4	6.7	4.8	4.8	4.5	6.9	4.4