5   Persons 20 years and older in private households. Percentage living/not living as couples, by immigrant population's country1. 3 November 2001
Country background Total(N=100) As couples Not as couples
Total Married2 Cohabiting
Total 3 321 580 62.5 50.2 12.2 37.5
           
Norway 3 095 514 62.5 49.9 12.6 37.5
           
Foreign countries, total  226 066 62.7 54.8 7.9 37.3
Europe, except Turkey, total  112 629 63.7 51.8 11.8 36.3
Sweden 20 569 59.6 39.0 20.6 40.4
Denmark 17 588 65.6 52.4 13.2 34.4
Yugoslavia 8 203 69.5 64.0 5.6 30.5
Bosnia Herzegovina 9 234 65.7 61.6 4.1 34.3
United Kingdom 9 802 67.5 56.8 10.7 32.5
Germany 8 805 62.9 52.1 10.8 37.1
Rest of Europe 38 428 62.4 52.2 10.3 37.6
           
Africa, total 19 670 47.2 43.2 4.1 52.8
Somalia 5 659 28.5 26.3 2.2 71.5
Morocco 3 814 64.4 61.2 3.2 35.6
Ethiopia 2 059 41.4 37.0 4.5 58.6
Ghana  849 58.7 54.8 3.9 41.3
Gambia  737 47.8 39.9 7.9 52.2
Rest of Africa 6 552 53.7 48.1 5.6 46.3
           
Asia with Turkey, total 76 716 65.3 62.2 3.1 34.7
Pakistan 13 978 71.5 70.7 0.8 28.5
Vietnam 10 396 58.7 54.4 4.3 41.3
Iraq 8 276 44.2 41.9 2.3 55.8
Iran 7 875 56.4 51.6 4.8 43.6
Turkey 7 057 74.6 72.0 2.6 25.4
Sri Lanka 6 670 77.0 74.9 2.1 23.0
India 4 348 72.1 69.6 2.5 27.9
Afghanistan 1 103 49.2 48.4 0.8 50.8
Rest of Asia 17 013 69.6 64.6 5.0 30.4
           
North America, total 7 377 65.8 61.5 4.3 34.2
           
South and Central America, total 8 857 58.8 49.5 9.2 41.2
Chile 4 701 54.8 44.0 10.8 45.2
Rest of South and Central America 4 156 63.3 55.8 7.5 36.7
           
Oceania, total  817 68.1 59.5 8.6 31.9
1  Own, mother's or father's country of birth (if it is foreign) for persons with two foreign born parents, otherwise Norway.
2  Registered partners included.

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