Statistics Norway

Immigrants by reason for immigration

5 Immigrants with family as reason for immigration1, by type of family unification, immigrant category of reference person and citizenship. 2010 and 1990-2010 (Corrected 7 October 2011)
Citizenship Total Family reunification and
accompanying person
Family establishment Unknown
Total Reference person is an immigrant or
Norwegian-born to immigrant parents
Reference person belongs
to the rest of the population
Reference person unknown
I alt 2010 14 762 11 024 3 162 1 512 1 618 32  576
Selected countries              
Poland 2 638 2 513 28 19 9 - 97
Lithuania 1 443 1 376 7 3 4 - 60
Thailand  969  433  519 19  500 - 17
Philippines  574  299  255 28  224 3 20
Latvia  561  529 2 - 2 - 30
Germany  547  524 7 2 5 - 16
Somalia  413  330 80 79 - 1 3
Russia  372  217  147 35  110 2 8
Romania  358  334 9 1 8 - 15
Iraq  331  180  132  130 2 - 19
USA  329  205  108 16 88 4 16
Pakistan  327  102  205  203 2 - 20
Stateless  316  274 38 34 4 - 4
India  309  214 87 83 3 1 8
China  277  182 84 39 45 - 11
Eritrea  270  241 28 27 - 1 1
United Kingdom  269  235 19 6 12 1 15
Afghanistan  231  138 92 92 - - 1
Turkey  215 74  134 86 46 2 7
Netherlands  203  191 4 4 - - 8
               
I alt 1990-2010  179 765  108 882 70 307 29 676 40 551 80  576
Selected citizenships              
Poland 15 967 13 655 2 215  697 1 516 2 97
Thailand 11 933 3 916 8 000  332 7 664 4 17
Iraq 8 838 7 229 1 590 1 535 54 1 19
Somalia 8 820 7 957  860  848 11 1 3
Pakistan 8 101 2 976 5 105 4 923  182 - 20
Russia 8 077 4 252 3 817  399 3 416 2 8
Germany 7 570 6 641  913  177  736 - 16
USA 7 426 4 270 3 140  201 2 930 9 16
Turkey 6 411 2 275 4 129 2 604 1 523 2 7
Philippines 6 356 2 355 3 981  457 3 515 9 20
United Kingdom 6 251 4 483 1 753  264 1 485 4 15
Sri Lanka 4 187 2 065 2 119 2 035 84 - 3
Vietnam 4 147 2 066 2 071 1 732  339 - 10
Lithuania 3 850 3 385  405 82  320 3 60
Netherlands 3 555 3 151  396 88  308 - 8
India 3 548 2 063 1 477 1 269  203 5 8
China 3 373 2 142 1 220  624  596 - 11
Iran 3 250 1 804 1 441 1 293  147 1 5
Afghanistan 3 245 2 589  655  625 29 1 1
Morocco 2 811  706 2 103 1 271  830 2 2
1  First-time immigrations by familyunification among immigrants (born abroad to foreign-born parents) with non-Nordic citizenship.

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