Statistics Norway

Immigrants by reason for immigration

3 Immigrations1 by reason for immigration and citizenship. 2010 (Corrected 7 October 2011)
Citizenship Total Labour Family Refugee Training3 Other Unknown reason for immigration2
Family, total Familyreunified to person
with refugee background
Total 50 251 23 775 14 762 1 957 6 172 5 270  123  149
Europe 31 845 21 612 8 018  150  158 1 874 34  149
Asia with Turkey 10 129 1 139 3 969  669 2 441 2 529 51 -
Africa 5 412  229 1 461  850 3 268  434 20 -
North America 1 037  423  400 7 -  206 8 -
South and Central America  937  228  519 1 9  175 6 -
Oceania  258  129 79 - - 48 2 -
Stateless  633 15  316  280  296 4 2 -
                 
                 
First citizenship from Africa, Asia, South and Central America,
Europe except EU/EEA and Oceania except
Australia og New Zealand
19 013 2 047 7 174 1 939 6 167 3 536 89 -
First citizenship from EU/EEA, USA, Canada, Australia og New Zealand 31 238 21 728 7 588 18 5 1 734 34  149
                 
Selected countries                
Poland 10 340 7 574 2 638 - 1  100 2 25
Lithuania 6 280 4 750 1 443 - 1 52 7 27
Germany 2 429 1 501  547 2 -  339 3 39
Latvia 2 223 1 586  561 - - 62 1 13
Philippines 2 048  178  574 2 - 1 268 28 -
Eritrea 1 960 -  270  244 1 685 4 1 -
Somalia 1 571 2  413  366 1 155 - 1 -
Afghanistan 1 380 2  231  213 1 145 - 2 -
United Kingdom 1 263  935  269 2 - 48 1 10
Romania 1 241  822  358 - - 59 2 -
Thailand 1 117 71  969 2 - 70 7 -
Estonia  948  746  174 - 1 24 - 3
China  927  193  277 7  105  352 - -
Russia  852  159  372 18  132  184 5 -
USA  796  305  329 6 -  155 7 -
Iraq  780 15  331  279  427 3 4 -
France  755  379  151 - -  225 - -
India  716  318  309 2 1 83 5 -
Spain  703  388 88 - 1  220 1 5
Stateless  633 15  316  280  296 4 2 -
Netherlands  630  370  203 2 1 45 1 10
Bulgaria  613  408  186 2 - 15 4 -
Slovakia  551  437 92 - - 21 - 1
Iran  528 56  106 35  298 68 - -
1  First time immigrations by immigrants (born abroad to foreign-born parents) with non-Nordic citizenship.
2  149 persons from an EU/EEA/EFTA country have a unknown reason for immigration due to the new registration rule. For more information about right of residence in Norway for EU/EEA/EFTA nationals: http://www.udi.no/.
3  Au pairs have training as reason for immigration.

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