Statistics Norway

Immigrants by reason for immigration

2 Immigrations1, by reason for immigration and citizenship. 1990-2011
Citizenship Total Labour Family Refugee Training Other Unknown reason
for immigration2
Family, total Familyreunified
with refugee
Total  524 957  157 934  196 283 44 206  109 578 55 368 2 455 3 339
Europe  277 272  138 851 75 460 4 980 35 618 22 566 1 438 3 339
Asia with Turkey  144 288 8 681 74 509 23 529 40 968 19 656  474 -
Africa 62 318 1 692 24 177 13 081 29 660 6 651  138 -
North America 18 326 5 551 9 278  151  101 3 083  313 -
South and Central America 14 398 1 568 9 670  953  601 2 505 54 -
Oceania 3 732 1 531 1 354 19 16  799 32 -
Stateless 4 623 60 1 835 1 493 2 614  108 6 -
                 
First citizenship from Africa, Asia,
South and Central America, Europe except EU/EEA and
Oceania except Australia og New Zealand		  287 357 15 718  127 896 43 304  108 574 34 398  771 -
First citizenship from EU/EEA, USA, Canada, Australia og New Zealand  237 600  142 216 68 387  902 1 004 20 970 1 684 3 339
                 
Selected countries                
Poland 76 368 54 569 18 607  210  215 1 517 56 1 404
Germany 29 056 15 942 8 120 65 50 4 108  410  426
Lithuania 25 528 18 337 5 648 20 19 1 067 26  431
Iraq 22 796 69 9 189 8 428 13 502 16 20 -
Somalia 22 732 12 9 228 8 404 13 470 3 19 -
United Kingdom 18 232 10 432 6 564 57 62  705  317  152
Russia 17 901 1 635 8 480  690 4 688 3 050 48 -
Serbia and Montenegro3 17 228  290 2 488 1 331 14 186  250 14 -
Serbia4 1 718  441  706  216  374  192 5 -
Kosovo5  604 70  460  258 49 23 2 -
Montenegro4 93 29 48 15 5 11 - -
Philippines 16 191 1 216 7 043 74  199 7 545  188 -
Bosnia Herzegovina 15 357  243 1 484 1 101 13 518  105 7 -
USA 15 186 4 531 7 800 92 91 2 487  277 -
Thailand 14 104  234 13 029  105  136  673 32 -
Afghanistan 11 541 14 3 472 3 208 8 042 8 5 -
Iran 11 305  363 3 496 2 465 6 976  462 8 -
Pakistan 9 976  354 8 442  833  441  665 74 -
China 9 733 1 348 3 669  242  695 4 003 18 -
Netherlands 8 912 4 238 3 748 49 19  597  185  125
France 8 468 4 053 2 632 30 30 1 570 67  116
Eritrea 7 890 2 1 239 1 064 6 601 45 3 -
Latvia 7 878 4 877 1 852 9 8  897 7  237
India 7 816 2 753 3 944  210  105  980 34 -
Turkey 7 741  307 6 590  913  461  349 34 -
Romania 7 487 3 819 2 430  107  234  985 19 -
Vietnam 7 353  144 4 349 2 404 2 391  446 23 -
Sri Lanka 6 975  115 4 306 2 787 2 037  511 6 -
Ethiopia 5 757 73 1 974 1 329 2 678 1 028 4 -
Estonia 4 777 3 000 1 005 14 23  686 4 59
1  First time immigrations by immigrants (born abroad to foreign-born parents) with non-Nordic citizenship.
2  3 339 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  For the years 1996-2006 this figure also includes citizens from the Montenegro. For 1990-2007 it includes Kosovo.
4  From 2007. Serbia and Montenegro was 1 November 2006 separated in two parts, in Serbia and in Montenegro.
5  From 2008.

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