Statistics Norway

Immigrants by reason for immigration

3 Immigrations1, by reason for immigration and citizenship. 2008
Citizenship Total Labour Family Refugee Training Other
Family, total Familyreunified
to person with
refugee
background
Total 48 410 23 205 16 760 2 828 4 274 4 052  119
Europe 31 565 21 070 8 719  298  455 1 241 80
Asia with Turkey 9 743 1 269 4 534 1 030 1 961 1 967 12
Africa 3 813  146 1 751 1 088 1 432  467 17
North- and Central America 1 330  404  696 23 5  215 10
South America  901  178  579 24 14  130 -
Oceania  254  135 91 3 - 28 -
Stateless  804 3  390  362  407 4 -
               
               
First citizenship from Africa, Asia with Turkey, South and Central America, Europe except EU/EEA, Oceania except Australia and New Zealand and stateless 18 397 2 210 8 871 2 771 4 242 3 043 31
EU/EEA, USA, Canada, Australia og New Zealand 30 013 20 995 7 889 57 32 1 009 88
               
Selected countries              
Poland 14 116 10 401 3 657 5 8 48 2
Germany 4 119 2 522 1 348 6 6  226 17
Lithuania 2 777 2 227  525 1 3 19 3
Philippines 1 708  224  508 - 14  960 2
Thailand 1 267 10 1 171 2 2 83 1
Somalia 1 173 1  819  745  349 - 4
Iraq 1 143 6  413  345  724 - -
Russia 1 097  211  462 19  240  184 -
United 1 066  747  279 3 - 25 15
Romania 1 044  753  249 4 2 38 2
India 1 014  524  420 6 5 63 2
Netherlands  854  422  394 7 1 16 21
USA  810  265  402 15 3  131 9
China  792  159  292 19 16  325 -
Eritrea  777 - 99 95  678 - -
Afghanistan  772 1  289  257  482 - -
France  701  414  146 - 1  133 7
Slovakia  654  569 75 1 - 10 -
Latvia  587  470 99 1 2 16 -
Estonia  506  418 80 - - 8 -
Pakistan  505 47  375 26 3 79 1
1  First time immigrations by immigrants (born abroad to foreign-born parents) with non-Nordic citizenship.

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