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Population by immigrant category and country background.
	2016
	Born in Norway to Norwegian-born parents¹	Immigrants	Norwegian-born to immigrant parents	Foreign-born with one Norwegian-born parent	Norwegian-born with one foreign-born parent	Foreign-born to Norwegian-born parents
¹The foreign country background is related to grandparents’ country of birth. The person can have 1 to 4 grandparents born abroad. Grandmother / grandfather's country of birth is selected first if there are different countries of birth for grandparents.
Total	4 043 797	698 550	149 657	35 444	248 054	38 483
Norway	3 867 690	0	0	0	0	0
Denmark	30 733	19 827	1 935	3 909	30 352	1 319
Greenland	100	209	12	54	187	30
Finland	5 400	6 362	650	448	6 697	54
Faroe Islands	1 495	732	94	100	1 177	17
Iceland	1 894	8 198	807	334	3 065	51
Sweden	31 693	37 134	2 821	6 645	37 642	5 343
Albania	35	1 222	211	1	201	5
Belgium	926	1 185	99	265	1 065	283
Bulgaria	52	6 415	505	26	761	37
Andorra	0	12	0	0	2	0
Estonia	155	5 078	390	47	594	2
France	1 797	5 316	489	744	3 546	325
Gibraltar	0	3	0	5	13	0
Greece	374	2 339	100	182	975	39
Belarus	10	1 020	145	7	296	3
Ireland	405	1 027	49	100	904	25
Croatia	430	3 747	754	24	795	5
Italy	1 220	3 888	208	334	2 049	107
Latvia	140	9 963	907	34	612	11
Malta	45	76	5	18	75	3
Netherlands	3 694	7 729	867	764	5 280	314
Liechtenstein	7	21	3	2	4	0
Luxembourg	33	43	0	31	41	66
Monaco	4	12	0	1	6	2
Poland	2 303	95 724	10 001	277	5 356	65
Portugal	238	3 057	230	94	746	15
Romania	202	13 380	1 548	31	1 282	147
San Marino	0	5	3	0	1	0
Lithuania	29	37 376	4 250	45	1 006	1
Spain	1 586	5 779	321	625	2 626	179
Moldova	0	912	105	1	114	0
United Kingdom	15 498	14 475	972	3 765	19 873	1 236
Russia	452	17 058	2 954	216	3 573	216
Switzerland	1 341	1 352	164	547	1 732	343
Turkey	595	11 142	6 728	113	3 537	25
Germany	12 649	24 909	2 861	2 456	14 601	874
Slovenia	61	386	47	6	115	0
Ukraine	67	4 572	516	64	1 042	5
Hungary	1 982	3 811	640	72	1 517	294
Austria	1 429	1 263	102	244	1 459	98
Vatican City State	0	1	0	0	0	0
Bosnia-Herzegovina	186	13 474	3 928	12	1 409	1
Macedonia	154	2 568	1 307	14	618	1
Slovakia	101	3 967	407	8	284	0
Czech Republic	805	2 181	285	39	884	13
Serbia	407	4 710	923	23	715	13
Montenegro	16	426	148	1	55	1
Kosovo	151	9 896	5 063	19	1 150	3
Guernsey	0	4	0	0	0	0
Jersey	0	1	0	0	0	0
Isle of Man	0	0	0	0	0	0
Algeria	244	1 224	528	13	623	3
Angola	16	498	70	14	182	3
Botswana	10	68	8	32	64	19
Saint Helena	20	2	0	2	15	0
British Indian Ocean Territory	2	2	0	0	2	0
Burundi	0	1 056	345	2	83	2
Comoros	3	5	2	0	1	0
Benin	0	28	3	1	4	0
Equatorial Guinea	0	10	1	0	0	0
Côte d'Ivore	27	298	56	8	151	33
Eritrea	186	17 592	3 109	23	299	103
Ethiopia	448	7 410	2 207	108	607	837
Egypt	231	1 061	197	39	535	11
Djibouti	4	59	50	0	5	0
Gabon	0	9	0	1	7	0
Gambia	111	1 178	550	11	729	0
Ghana	49	1 928	737	24	553	10
Guinea	11	276	81	0	42	0
Guinea-Bissau	1	57	12	1	27	0
Cameroon	269	577	139	10	217	130
Cape Verde	251	386	133	6	283	7
Kenya	269	1 706	277	169	855	197
Congo-Brazzaville	25	236	58	4	39	8
Congo	205	2 219	627	22	248	56
Lesotho	0	10	0	2	5	0
Liberia	71	889	294	15	123	35
Libya	10	614	123	6	78	4
Madagascar	965	195	35	49	456	232
Malawi	1	104	3	7	19	0
Mali	3	36	23	1	27	12
Morocco	604	5 616	4 031	47	2 312	10
Western Sahara	1	36	0	0	6	0
Mauritania	0	57	0	1	12	1
Mauritius	75	177	48	13	166	0
Namibia	10	71	2	13	54	4
Niger	0	56	14	3	29	0
Nigeria	91	1 761	513	20	687	14
Mozambique	28	161	13	16	92	9
Mayotte	0	0	0	0	0	0
Réunion	0	3	1	1	1	0
Zimbabwe	54	233	33	27	132	27
Rwanda	7	629	190	1	63	7
Sao Tome and Principe	0	4	0	0	0	0
Senegal	8	257	77	8	116	4
Central African Republic	0	18	4	0	1	0
Seychelles	6	10	1	2	19	0
Sierra Leone	46	497	172	6	189	2
Somalia	30	28 300	11 800	13	617	8
Spanish territories in Africa	0	0	0	0	0	0
South Sudan	6	178	77	1	19	1
Sudan	24	3 697	622	2	95	7
Swaziland	17	5	0	4	16	6
South Africa	1 066	961	68	230	1 049	318
Tanzania	134	763	150	74	417	95
Chad	0	32	5	1	2	0
Togo	3	110	48	1	28	1
Tunisia	162	1 005	394	25	749	9
Uganda	86	1 231	239	42	394	12
Zambia	47	459	39	57	212	37
Burkina Faso	0	33	2	0	18	0
Afghanistan	8	14 233	3 286	2	183	0
Armenia	11	303	51	1	28	3
Azerbaijan	3	510	113	6	63	2
Bahrain	0	16	5	10	18	6
Bangladesh	182	911	306	11	148	130
Bhutan	2	362	31	1	8	7
Brunei	2	11	3	4	4	16
Myanmar	12	3 144	699	1	56	1
Sri Lanka	288	9 092	6 111	61	960	185
United Arab Emirates	3	316	114	42	37	78
Philippines	1 147	19 776	2 169	919	8 697	683
Georgia	0	311	43	4	48	0
Taiwan	116	256	34	19	127	76
Hong Kong	328	819	232	60	324	142
India	1 481	10 954	3 741	175	1 704	1 356
Indonesia	431	1 271	254	83	619	182
Iraq	58	22 154	9 336	20	1 169	12
Iran	248	16 462	3 999	36	2 541	37
Israel	185	644	82	144	703	35
Japan	704	935	72	171	741	303
Jordan	35	448	217	6	97	2
Cambodia	19	408	156	15	85	3
Kazakhstan	17	908	139	9	137	0
China	1 250	8 350	1 847	494	1 649	2 676
North Korea	12	28	10	1	7	10
South Korea	4 159	1 059	95	401	1 224	6 046
Kuwait	5	379	141	11	66	6
Cyprus	76	171	5	28	165	5
Kyrgyzstan	0	204	31	2	44	0
Laos	0	102	17	1	48	0
Lebanon	136	1 917	947	39	632	14
Macao	0	80	9	1	9	0
Malaysia	114	741	92	73	334	37
Maldives	0	6	0	0	4	0
Mongolia	0	133	27	5	35	8
Oman	0	21	1	13	9	12
Palestine	95	3 334	716	39	209	7
Nepal	32	1 564	125	15	114	79
Pakistan	1 190	19 571	16 455	130	5 396	21
Timor-Leste	0	9	0	0	4	0
Qatar	1	45	12	5	0	20
Saudi Arabia	5	665	139	18	35	31
Singapore	142	390	41	155	309	217
Tajikistan	0	106	23	0	37	0
Turkmenistan	18	83	19	0	13	0
Uzbekistan	6	524	76	1	57	0
Syria	41	9 710	1 192	6	261	4
Thailand	451	17 518	806	982	7 359	440
Vietnam	611	13 608	8 755	90	1 914	201
Yemen	0	406	109	2	10	1
United States Virgin Islands	21	1	0	1	12	1
Barbados	12	20	0	2	24	0
Antigua and Barbuda	0	4	0	0	8	0
Belize	5	12	0	0	18	0
Bahamas	12	15	0	4	10	4
Bermuda	4	2	0	4	7	3
British Virgin Islands	2	1	0	1	2	3
Canada	3 311	1 825	127	590	2 764	678
Cayman Islands	0	4	2	0	2	0
Costa Rica	119	139	7	47	132	98
Cuba	20	970	89	34	556	4
Dominica	0	21	12	0	17	0
Dominican Republic	18	790	158	42	336	2
Franske Antiller	0	0	0	0	0	0
Grenada	16	15	3	3	24	0
Guadeloupe	0	2	0	1	4	0
Guatemala	152	186	21	49	178	213
Haiti	4	38	1	7	24	2
Honduras	34	105	22	9	98	5
Jamaica	41	152	16	13	157	5
Martinique	0	6	2	0	9	0
Mexico	134	1 152	81	108	830	23
Montserrat	0	2	1	0	0	0
Aruba	32	12	0	2	27	3
Sint Maarten	0	2	0	0	0	0
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	0	0	0	1	0	0
Anguilla	0	0	0	0	0	0
Curaçao	51	27	6	19	37	14
Nicaragua	15	156	13	27	123	12
Panama	10	59	3	6	50	2
El Salvador	8	205	51	3	95	0
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	0	0	2	0	1
Saint Lucia	4	11	2	2	8	1
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	6	5	0	0	7	0
Trinidad and Tobago	338	259	13	59	412	30
Turks and Caicos Islands	0	2	0	0	0	0
United States	26 163	8 446	674	4 157	17 248	4 975
Puerto Rico	1	23	2	6	28	1
Saint Martin	0	1	0	0	0	0
Saint Barthélemy	0	0	0	0	0	0
Argentina	580	928	90	134	807	70
Bolivia	102	298	36	56	236	186
Brazil	443	4 263	219	527	2 579	526
Guyana	60	80	6	6	112	1
Chile	892	6 191	1 772	171	3 712	294
Colombia	1 347	1 819	178	291	1 009	3 668
Ecuador	186	500	55	52	360	224
Falkland Islands	0	1	2	0	0	0
French Guiana	0	4	0	0	1	0
Paraguay	44	107	8	21	82	28
Peru	151	1 256	146	85	883	172
Suriname	23	38	5	1	45	0
Uruguay	62	212	24	21	178	8
Venezuela	48	1 023	91	50	319	18
American Samoa	4	0	0	1	4	1
Australia	850	1 530	53	470	1 566	241
Solomon Islands	1	6	1	0	7	0
Christmas Island	6	0	0	0	0	1
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cook Islands	4	1	0	2	6	0
Fiji	15	37	0	7	41	0
Vanuatu	0	1	0	0	2	0
Tonga	7	5	0	0	9	0
French Polynesia	5	6	0	2	7	0
Kiribati	0	2	0	1	1	0
Tuvalu	0	1	0	0	1	0
Guam	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nauru	0	0	0	0	0	0
United States Minor Outlying Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0
New Zealand	266	506	17	103	570	24
Niue	0	0	0	0	0	0
Norfolk Island	0	0	0	0	0	0
Territory of New Guinea	0	0	0	0	0	0
Micronesia, Federated States of	14	1	0	0	7	0
Papua New Guinea	2	5	0	2	2	2
Pitcairn	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tokelau	0	0	0	0	0	0
Samoa	0	3	0	1	3	0
Wallis and Futuna Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0
New Caledonia	7	5	0	4	7	0
Marshall Islands	0	1	0	0	0	0
Palau	0	2	0	0	2	0
Northern Mariana Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0

StatBank source table 01451