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Population by immigrant category and country background.
	2020
	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	4 033 960	790 497	188 757	38 195	277 085	39 086
Norway	3 837 676	0	0	0	0	0
Denmark	32 677	19 016	1 994	4 062	31 332	1 356
Greenland	121	198	14	56	207	30
Finland	5 963	6 666	707	489	6 971	56
Faroe Islands	1 561	651	100	100	1 197	16
Iceland	2 161	7 144	857	354	3 412	53
Sweden	34 524	35 568	3 286	6 825	41 918	5 321
Albania	37	2 566	430	2	265	5
Belgium	1 034	1 326	134	300	1 187	296
Bulgaria	92	7 356	856	29	873	49
Andorra	0	13	0	0	2	0
Estonia	155	4 683	550	54	721	2
France	2 054	5 798	591	789	3 895	324
Gibraltar	1	3	0	6	13	0
Greece	453	3 356	194	201	1 091	42
Belarus	14	1 243	244	13	352	3
Ireland	468	1 044	57	117	993	25
Croatia	481	5 158	951	25	915	7
Italy	1 349	4 825	337	360	2 263	110
Latvia	139	10 886	1 432	36	819	12
Malta	53	86	6	18	77	6
Netherlands	4 197	8 002	972	806	5 681	320
Liechtenstein	7	20	3	2	4	0
Luxembourg	50	49	1	36	52	71
Monaco	4	11	2	2	7	2
Poland	2 654	101 153	14 263	307	6 304	67
Portugal	302	3 547	359	100	851	17
Romania	233	15 189	2 464	36	1 544	146
San Marino	0	6	3	0	1	0
Lithuania	32	40 632	6 672	54	1 382	1
Spain	1 762	6 811	531	686	2 911	208
Moldova	0	1 429	238	3	153	0
United Kingdom	17 059	15 075	1 079	3 993	21 022	1 265
Russia	490	18 220	3 971	261	4 298	218
Switzerland	1 518	1 556	184	588	1 867	346
Turkey	872	12 825	7 250	144	4 145	27
Germany	13 580	24 953	3 305	2 537	15 800	890
Slovenia	66	458	71	6	135	0
Ukraine	70	6 091	848	98	1 376	25
Hungary	2 099	3 945	789	96	1 618	330
Austria	1 523	1 356	124	246	1 556	99
Vatican City State	0	1	0	0	0	0
Bosnia-Herzegovina	251	13 920	4 622	14	1 821	1
North Macedonia	212	2 979	1 480	17	728	1
Slovakia	100	3 748	561	11	377	0
Czech Republic	842	2 192	364	40	959	12
Serbia	457	7 383	1 491	25	847	13
Montenegro	18	510	191	2	74	1
Kosovo	242	10 403	5 954	24	1 487	5
Guernsey	0	5	1	0	0	0
Jersey	0	4	0	0	0	0
Isle of Man	0	0	0	0	0	0
Algeria	309	1 301	573	15	667	3
Angola	18	481	85	22	193	2
Botswana	13	73	9	32	63	18
Saint Helena	21	2	0	2	15	0
British Indian Ocean Territory	2	1	0	0	2	0
Burundi	0	1 110	451	2	102	2
Comoros	3	5	2	0	1	0
Benin	0	28	5	2	9	0
Equatorial Guinea	0	13	1	0	0	0
Côte d'Ivore	36	321	89	8	177	33
Eritrea	256	23 075	6 027	22	395	102
Ethiopia	551	8 685	3 351	115	751	837
Egypt	280	1 380	260	43	603	11
Djibouti	5	62	52	0	5	0
Gabon	0	10	3	1	7	0
Gambia	178	1 250	605	12	782	0
Ghana	76	2 125	897	25	646	9
Guinea	11	305	118	0	47	0
Guinea-Bissau	1	70	15	1	27	0
Cameroon	294	698	188	9	249	128
Cape Verde	284	388	139	9	291	7
Kenya	319	1 999	374	179	1 036	207
Congo-Brazzaville	26	243	78	5	52	8
Congo	225	3 444	856	20	310	56
Lesotho	0	9	0	2	6	0
Liberia	77	888	352	16	151	35
Libya	13	891	164	8	87	4
Madagascar	1 038	199	44	51	481	238
Malawi	1	127	7	7	30	1
Mali	5	47	28	1	30	11
Morocco	884	6 184	4 554	60	2 563	10
Western Sahara	2	32	0	0	11	0
Mauritania	0	72	2	1	16	1
Mauritius	99	187	48	13	178	0
Namibia	13	79	3	19	66	4
Niger	0	54	18	1	36	0
Nigeria	128	2 054	638	21	783	15
Mozambique	38	179	21	14	109	9
Mayotte	0	0	0	0	0	0
Réunion	0	3	0	1	1	0
Zimbabwe	78	285	41	26	157	27
Rwanda	8	657	243	4	81	7
Sao Tome and Principe	0	6	0	0	0	0
Senegal	13	314	103	8	139	4
Central African Republic	0	36	3	0	1	0
Seychelles	6	13	3	2	20	0
Sierra Leone	62	498	191	5	203	2
Somalia	55	28 554	14 719	16	803	11
Spanish territories in Africa	0	0	0	0	0	0
South Sudan	8	355	80	1	18	1
Sudan	30	4 873	1 291	2	141	7
Eswatini	19	10	0	4	16	6
South Africa	1 167	1 216	82	265	1 197	373
Tanzania	169	775	172	78	500	97
Chad	0	38	7	1	5	0
Togo	5	120	55	1	35	1
Tunisia	217	1 120	476	25	784	9
Uganda	103	2 084	299	49	483	13
Zambia	58	475	46	62	253	36
Burkina Faso	1	35	5	0	18	2
Afghanistan	8	17 293	4 649	4	320	1
Armenia	11	333	72	1	39	3
Azerbaijan	4	576	142	6	75	3
Bahrain	2	21	5	11	22	6
Bangladesh	200	1 291	405	13	160	129
Bhutan	4	363	58	1	15	7
Brunei	7	14	3	4	6	16
Myanmar	12	3 218	968	1	84	1
Sri Lanka	452	9 218	6 519	61	1 114	185
United Arab Emirates	7	512	135	65	57	91
Philippines	1 722	23 280	3 054	1 166	10 668	703
Georgia	0	345	53	10	61	2
Taiwan	140	349	35	24	162	94
Hong Kong	376	859	251	69	367	139
India	1 866	14 638	4 497	182	1 950	1 355
Indonesia	466	1 531	320	101	732	183
Iraq	90	23 260	11 008	21	1 527	13
Iran	392	18 487	4 844	37	2 980	36
Israel	248	720	97	158	750	32
Japan	800	1 089	92	179	844	300
Jordan	44	609	249	9	112	3
Cambodia	26	457	175	19	129	3
Kazakhstan	17	1 009	194	11	170	0
China	1 334	9 469	2 387	541	1 970	2 674
North Korea	14	27	10	1	7	10
South Korea	4 833	1 314	116	439	1 486	6 076
Kuwait	10	494	177	12	81	8
Cyprus	101	179	5	26	170	6
Kyrgyzstan	0	252	50	3	57	0
Laos	0	137	22	4	62	0
Lebanon	208	2 811	1 054	50	710	15
Macao	0	65	12	1	13	0
Malaysia	141	861	112	83	386	40
Maldives	2	5	0	0	4	0
Mongolia	0	155	33	5	43	8
Oman	2	23	1	12	11	13
Palestine	109	3 360	971	42	237	7
Nepal	43	2 288	317	16	137	79
Pakistan	1 867	21 109	17 565	197	6 752	23
Timor-Leste	0	9	0	0	5	0
Qatar	4	63	23	10	5	21
Saudi Arabia	6	977	246	19	61	31
Singapore	179	473	46	185	344	247
Tajikistan	0	121	31	0	43	0
Turkmenistan	19	92	18	0	16	0
Uzbekistan	6	676	120	2	74	0
Syria	66	31 952	4 074	8	389	4
Thailand	683	21 097	1 097	1 252	8 608	471
Vietnam	1 028	14 329	9 326	115	2 362	206
Yemen	1	651	165	2	14	1
United States Virgin Islands	21	0	0	1	12	1
Barbados	13	23	0	3	28	0
Antigua and Barbuda	0	5	0	0	8	0
Belize	5	14	0	0	18	0
Bahamas	12	19	0	4	12	4
Bermuda	4	6	0	4	7	2
British Virgin Islands	2	1	0	1	2	3
Canada	3 548	2 110	135	628	2 957	678
Cayman Islands	0	4	2	0	3	0
Costa Rica	141	182	8	54	161	99
Cuba	26	1 078	127	42	667	4
Dominica	0	22	10	0	16	0
Dominican Republic	24	928	203	53	415	2
Franske Antiller	0	0	0	0	0	0
Grenada	18	13	3	3	27	0
Guadeloupe	0	2	0	1	4	1
Guatemala	179	222	19	50	215	212
Haiti	4	45	3	5	29	2
Honduras	39	127	25	10	108	5
Jamaica	45	172	22	14	173	5
Martinique	0	6	0	0	10	0
Mexico	156	1 508	101	129	1 043	24
Montserrat	0	5	0	0	0	0
Aruba	36	13	0	2	27	3
Sint Maarten	0	2	0	0	0	0
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	0	0	0	1	0	0
Anguilla	0	0	0	0	0	0
Curaçao	56	24	4	18	37	13
Nicaragua	18	195	14	26	153	12
Panama	10	86	4	6	56	2
El Salvador	12	230	55	9	120	0
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	0	0	2	0	1
Saint Lucia	5	12	3	2	11	1
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	6	6	0	0	7	0
Trinidad and Tobago	384	274	14	60	422	30
Turks and Caicos Islands	0	3	0	0	1	0
United States	28 310	9 496	717	4 359	17 891	5 049
Puerto Rico	3	23	2	5	30	0
Saint Martin	0	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Barthélemy	0	0	0	0	0	0
Argentina	629	1 137	119	145	911	71
Bolivia	141	347	44	61	269	186
Brazil	596	5 527	344	629	3 234	528
Guyana	72	84	6	8	118	1
Chile	1 319	6 152	1 831	177	4 076	298
Colombia	1 747	2 217	234	317	1 334	3 737
Ecuador	228	579	63	52	406	224
Falkland Islands	0	1	2	0	0	0
French Guiana	0	6	0	1	5	0
Paraguay	58	128	12	23	99	28
Peru	196	1 429	158	99	1 052	185
Suriname	27	40	7	1	49	0
Uruguay	84	223	27	21	192	8
Venezuela	56	1 260	137	52	375	18
American Samoa	6	0	0	1	4	1
Australia	944	1 849	68	554	1 828	252
Solomon Islands	2	5	2	0	8	0
Christmas Island	7	0	0	0	0	1
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cook Islands	7	0	0	2	6	0
Fiji	18	37	1	5	46	0
Vanuatu	0	1	0	0	2	0
Tonga	10	6	0	0	9	0
French Polynesia	5	7	0	1	8	0
Kiribati	0	2	0	1	3	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	300	524	20	111	632	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	2	8	2	1	2	2
Pitcairn	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tokelau	0	0	0	0	0	0
Samoa	0	4	0	1	4	0
Wallis and Futuna Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0
New Caledonia	7	5	0	4	7	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