Statistics Norway

Employment and unemployment among short term immigrants

6 Unemployed persons registered at the Employment Office, by region of birth. Absolute figures and per cent. 4th quarter 2003-4th quarter 2007
Region of birth 4th quarter 2004 4th quarter 2005 4th quarter 2006 4th quarter 2007
Unemployd persons registered as resident Unemployed persons not registered as resident Unemployd persons registered as resident Unemployed persons not registered as resident Unemployd persons registered as resident Unemployed persons not registered as resident Unemployd persons registered as resident Unemployed persons not registered as resident
  Absolute figures
                 
Total 82 845  772 71 744  600 49 681  556 37 940  494
                 
Norway 62 772 - 53 531 - 35 660 - 26 617 -
The Nordic countries else 2 984  150 2 310 95 1 638 78 1 291 73
Western Europe else 2 036 71 1 710 45 1 213 63  923 88
EU-countries in Eastern Europe  694 39  659 25  556 44  569 84
Of which:                
Poland  345 21  324 14  289 26  323 55
Lithuania 39 14 44 5 37 9 55 17
Other countries 14 359  512 13 534  435 10 614  371 8 540  249
                 
Total  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0  100.0
                 
Norway 75.8 - 74.6 - 71.8 - 70.2 -
The Nordic countries else 3.6 19.4 3.2 15.8 3.3 14.0 3.4 14.8
Western Europe else 2.5 9.2 2.4 7.5 2.4 11.3 2.4 17.8
EU-countries in Eastern Europe 0.8 5.1 0.9 4.2 1.1 7.9 1.5 17.0
Of which:                
Poland 0.4 2.7 0.5 2.3 0.6 4.7 0.9 11.1
Lithuania 0.0 1.8 0.1 0.8 0.1 1.6 0.1 3.4
Other countries 17.3 66.3 18.9 72.5 21.4 66.7 22.5 50.4

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