Statistics Norway

Immigrant population by reason for immigration

5 First-time immigrations among first generation immigrants1 with non-Nordic citizenship, by citizenship, familyunification and reason for immigration. 2006 and 1990-2006
  Family immigration in total Family reunification and accompanying person Family establishment Immigrant category for reference person
  Immigrant population Person outside the immigrant population
2006          
Total 11 355 6 869 4 486 1 924 2 562
Selected countries          
Poland 1 377 1 241  136 99 37
Thailand  913  310  603 23  580
Somalia  669  579 90 90 30
Germany  556  483 73 31 42
Iraq  450  300  150  146 4
Russia  404  183  221 28  193
Philippines  376  144  232 26  206
Afghanistan  363  288 75 68 7
Pakistan  356  117  239  235 4
Netherlands  356  329 27 5 22
United Kingdom  319  217  102 18 84
USA  303  147  156 13  143
Lithuania  287  248 39 18 21
Turkey  267 76  191  102 89
Brasil  241 61  180 13  167
India  222  151 71 64 7
China  195  119 76 36 40
Vietnam  185 77  108 86 22
Iran  160 77 83 74 9
Sri Lanka  144 81 63 57 6
Serbia and Montenegro2  142 37  134  109 25
Etiopia  132 97 35 31 4
France  128  103 25 6 19
Ukraine  107 55 52 7 45
Morocco  103 22 81 62 19
Chile 87 29 58 29 29
Bosnia-Herzegovina 86 32 54 51 3
Romania 84 27 57 12 45
           
I alt  122 494 71 274 51 220 22 098 29 122
Selected countries          
Thailand 7 702 2 540 5 162  265 4 897
Iraq 7 321 6 317 1 004  965 39
Pakistan 6 596 2 754 3 842 3 696  146
Russia 6 411 3 300 3 111  512 2 599
Somalia 6 409 5 860  549  541 8
USA 6 065 3 684 2 381  167 2 214
United Kingdom 5 472 3 997 1 475  246 1 229
Turkey 5 436 2 174 3 262 2 085 1 177
Poland 5 050 3 290 1 760  515 1 245
Philippines 4 341 1 648 2 693  335 2 358
Germany 4 082 3 281  801  183  618
Sri Lanka 3 733 2 279 1 454 1 396 58
Vietnam 3 498 1 876 1 622 1 387  235
Iran 2 714 1 586 1 128 1 014  114
Netherlands 2 443 2 119  324 67  257
Morocco 2 410  779 1 631 1 001  630
Serbia and Montenegro2 2 425 1 148 1 277  993  284
China 2 359 1 519  840  494  346
Afghanistan 2 212 1 929  283  266 17
India 2 136 1 052 1 084  930  154
1  Foreign born with two foreign born parents.
2  Serbia and Montenegro was divided 1 November 2006 but is together in this table.
3  Corrected 17 Desember 2007.

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