Refugees

4   Refugees1, by country background, citizenship and sex. 1 January 2001
Country background Refugees, total Refugees with Norwegian citizenship Refugees with foreign citizenship Sex
Males Females
Total 83 978 38 879 45 099 48 228 35 750
The Nordic countries 8 2 6 5 3
Rest of Western Europe, except Turkey  117 48 69 63 54
Eastern Europe 26 129 6 738 19 391 13 704 12 425
North America and Oceania 18 5 13 8 10
Asia, Afrika,          
Asia, Africa, Central and South America, Turkey 57 706 32 086 25 620 34 448 23 258
           
Selected countries          
Bosnia-Herzegovina 11 489  888 10 601 5 672 5 817
Yugoslavia 10 662 3 607 7 055 5 920 4 742
Iraq 10 470 1 741 8 729 7 335 3 135
Vietnam 10 378 9 299 1 079 5 558 4 820
Iran 8 573 5 694 2 879 5 169 3 404
Somalia 7 355 2 238 5 117 4 103 3 252
Sri Lanka 5 099 3 602 1 497 3 169 1 930
Chile 4 569 2 892 1 677 2 499 2 070
Ethiopia 1 738 1 119  619 1 030  708
Turkey 1 686 1 375  311 1 009  677
Croatia 1 293 20 1 273  691  602
Afghanistan 1 082  245  837  608  474
Poland  968  834  134  464  504
Pakistan  878  565  313  552  326
Lebanon  742  587  155  482  260
Hungary  698  688 10  440  258
Syria  470  316  154  275  195
Eritrea  388  274  114  200  188
Sudan  303 68  235  200  103
Ghana  293  257 36  166  127
India  275  189 86  162  113
Algeria  232  106  126  162 70
Colombia  214 77  137  103  111
Kenya  207 96  111  111 96
Cambodia  188  176 12 93 95
Romania  186  157 29 93 93
Uganda  184 98 86  100 84
Rwanda  176 17  159 82 94
Zaire  171 53  118 97 74
Czech Republic  167  161 6 87 80
China  135 98 37 73 62
Russia  134 32  102 60 74
Macedonia  131 79 52 74 57
Czechoslovakia  130  123 7 71 59
Peru  128 56 72 64 64
Morocco  125 88 37 89 36
1  The definition 'refugee' refers to persons resident in Norway, who have come to Norway because of flight (family included). Children born in Norway to refugees are not included.

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