Statistics Norway

Immigrant population by reason for immigration

4 Immigrations1 by reason for immigration, year of immigration and immigrants still resident on 1 January 2008. 1990-2007. Absolute figures and per cent
Year of immigration Total Still resident 1.1. 2008 Other
Total Reason for immigration
Labour Family Refugee Training
1990-2007  328 225  243 909 48 225  108 642 72 063 13 990  989
1990 11 051 6 533  269 3 162 2 812  214 76
1991 11 079 6 342  233 2 780 3 037  246 46
1992 12 234 7 380  250 3 273 3 602  220 35
1993 16 771 10 742  214 3 135 7 142  233 18
1994 11 346 7 200  355 2 913 3 681  223 28
1995 10 235 6 369  439 3 057 2 612  228 33
1996 9 681 5 574  460 3 152 1 615  308 39
1997 11 545 7 059  657 4 217 1 808  324 53
1998 14 360 8 987  927 4 935 2 713  361 51
1999 22 242 13 525  814 5 752 6 451  452 56
2000 18 975 13 257  912 6 015 5 705  577 48
2001 17 370 12 475 1 166 6 585 4 027  652 45
2002 22 651 17 327 1 464 10 701 4 284  807 71
2003 19 771 15 484 1 421 7 755 5 389  868 51
2004 21 193 16 727 2 774 7 848 4 999 1 030 76
2005 23 915 19 592 4 938 9 346 3 860 1 378 70
2006 29 538 25 812 9 993 10 444 3 110 2 176 89
2007 44 268 43 524 20 939 13 572 5 216 3 693  104
               
  Immigrants still resident in per cent
1990-2007  100 74.3 70.9 80.5 82.3 38.9 57.3
1990  100 59.1 27.3 67.4 67.0 22.3 35.2
1991  100 57.2 22.2 63.6 67.1 23.5 55.4
1992  100 60.3 21.7 67.2 71.7 19.4 67.3
1993  100 64.1 18.4 65.9 74.4 19.3 40.9
1994  100 63.5 29.2 68.5 80.2 18.4 38.9
1995  100 62.2 30.8 70.0 85.0 17.7 41.8
1996  100 57.6 30.9 67.7 82.3 20.8 41.5
1997  100 61.1 35.4 70.9 87.0 20.8 49.5
1998  100 62.6 36.9 71.9 88.7 19.8 46.4
1999  100 60.8 39.1 76.7 60.8 23.3 51.9
2000  100 69.9 45.7 79.0 79.8 27.1 55.2
2001  100 71.8 49.1 78.5 94.2 29.2 46.4
2002  100 76.5 54.2 83.4 95.2 32.2 70.3
2003  100 78.3 59.6 84.5 97.4 33.4 65.4
2004  100 78.9 68.2 85.4 98.3 37.3 79.2
2005  100 81.9 76.7 89.6 98.2 45.5 74.5
2006  100 87.4 84.8 92.5 99.3 67.3 88.1
2007  100 98.3 98.0 99.0 99.9 95.7 97.2
1  First time immigrations by immigrants (born abroad to foreign-born parents) with non-Nordic citizenship.

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