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Population by immigrant category and country background.
	2017
	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	4 043 939	724 987	158 764	36 125	255 817	38 685
Norway	3 862 693	0	0	0	0	0
Denmark	31 267	19 494	1 953	3 940	30 603	1 328
Greenland	104	200	15	56	190	30
Finland	5 544	6 333	660	467	6 765	56
Faroe Islands	1 516	700	94	100	1 190	17
Iceland	1 956	7 883	821	347	3 157	50
Sweden	32 429	36 315	2 951	6 667	38 715	5 334
Albania	36	1 479	257	1	217	5
Belgium	962	1 196	106	272	1 097	287
Bulgaria	62	6 726	595	26	794	39
Andorra	0	14	0	0	2	0
Estonia	155	4 944	435	49	631	2
France	1 863	5 307	522	750	3 647	324
Gibraltar	0	3	0	5	13	0
Greece	392	2 586	117	188	1 015	39
Belarus	11	1 047	169	10	309	3
Ireland	418	1 027	52	108	932	25
Croatia	447	4 124	793	25	822	5
Italy	1 256	4 069	235	334	2 098	107
Latvia	141	10 052	1 020	37	675	11
Malta	47	79	5	19	75	3
Netherlands	3 827	7 713	882	770	5 394	317
Liechtenstein	7	21	3	2	4	0
Luxembourg	36	44	0	31	43	69
Monaco	4	10	0	0	6	2
Poland	2 394	97 196	11 059	290	5 674	67
Portugal	252	3 211	262	95	760	14
Romania	210	13 889	1 775	33	1 360	147
San Marino	0	5	3	0	1	0
Lithuania	30	37 638	4 853	47	1 136	1
Spain	1 646	6 049	370	641	2 707	182
Moldova	0	987	127	1	124	0
United Kingdom	15 932	14 330	991	3 815	20 158	1 242
Russia	461	17 225	3 219	233	3 804	216
Switzerland	1 387	1 388	162	565	1 755	344
Turkey	653	11 330	6 842	124	3 698	26
Germany	12 898	24 601	2 992	2 474	14 928	890
Slovenia	61	407	56	6	122	0
Ukraine	69	4 881	589	66	1 136	9
Hungary	2 012	3 863	692	75	1 543	300
Austria	1 458	1 287	111	246	1 489	99
Vatican City State	0	1	0	0	0	0
Bosnia-Herzegovina	195	13 591	4 093	14	1 524	1
Macedonia	170	2 692	1 345	14	641	1
Slovakia	100	3 902	432	8	315	0
Czech Republic	816	2 201	302	39	910	12
Serbia	420	5 361	1 035	26	755	13
Montenegro	18	443	159	1	62	1
Kosovo	169	10 034	5 294	20	1 232	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	256	1 240	523	13	639	3
Angola	16	490	74	15	191	3
Botswana	11	68	9	31	65	19
Saint Helena	20	2	0	2	15	0
British Indian Ocean Territory	2	2	0	0	2	0
Burundi	0	1 075	371	2	92	2
Comoros	3	5	2	0	1	0
Benin	0	28	3	2	4	0
Equatorial Guinea	0	11	1	0	0	0
Côte d'Ivore	28	304	61	8	152	33
Eritrea	205	19 957	3 661	23	371	102
Ethiopia	467	7 888	2 499	110	656	838
Egypt	252	1 128	210	38	555	12
Djibouti	4	62	50	0	5	0
Gabon	0	11	2	1	8	0
Gambia	121	1 202	560	11	742	0
Ghana	56	1 920	782	23	578	10
Guinea	11	283	92	0	42	0
Guinea-Bissau	1	59	13	1	27	0
Cameroon	278	599	148	9	226	130
Cape Verde	259	389	135	6	284	7
Kenya	283	1 790	305	175	912	199
Congo-Brazzaville	25	243	60	4	40	8
Congo	211	2 254	696	20	258	55
Lesotho	0	8	0	2	5	0
Liberia	71	893	307	13	133	35
Libya	11	655	137	8	83	4
Madagascar	985	202	39	52	467	235
Malawi	1	105	4	7	23	0
Mali	3	38	23	0	26	12
Morocco	677	5 796	4 159	51	2 368	10
Western Sahara	1	35	0	0	7	0
Mauritania	0	58	0	1	13	1
Mauritius	86	183	48	13	169	0
Namibia	11	71	1	15	56	4
Niger	0	56	16	3	31	0
Nigeria	98	1 806	542	20	717	15
Mozambique	30	167	16	16	99	9
Mayotte	0	0	0	0	0	0
Réunion	0	3	0	1	1	0
Zimbabwe	63	238	36	27	140	27
Rwanda	7	624	196	1	67	7
Sao Tome and Principe	0	4	0	0	0	0
Senegal	10	275	82	8	123	4
Central African Republic	0	19	4	0	1	0
Seychelles	6	10	1	2	20	0
Sierra Leone	51	504	175	5	192	2
Somalia	35	28 696	12 767	15	695	9
Spanish territories in Africa	0	0	0	0	0	0
South Sudan	6	172	75	1	17	1
Sudan	26	4 264	735	2	116	7
Swaziland	18	7	0	4	16	6
South Africa	1 087	989	72	235	1 082	331
Tanzania	141	755	149	75	448	95
Chad	0	31	6	1	5	0
Togo	3	111	51	1	29	1
Tunisia	172	1 021	410	25	754	9
Uganda	89	1 227	259	43	417	12
Zambia	48	437	40	57	222	37
Burkina Faso	0	31	3	0	18	0
Afghanistan	7	15 986	3 574	3	230	0
Armenia	11	316	56	1	31	3
Azerbaijan	3	525	120	6	65	3
Bahrain	0	17	5	9	21	6
Bangladesh	186	946	325	13	150	130
Bhutan	2	365	40	1	8	7
Brunei	3	12	3	4	4	16
Myanmar	12	3 186	752	1	70	1
Sri Lanka	331	9 109	6 199	64	1 004	186
United Arab Emirates	4	380	118	48	44	82
Philippines	1 275	20 537	2 355	990	9 188	684
Georgia	0	321	46	4	49	0
Taiwan	118	274	34	19	133	80
Hong Kong	336	814	239	62	333	143
India	1 573	11 022	3 911	178	1 774	1 360
Indonesia	440	1 269	266	92	645	183
Iraq	64	22 493	9 811	19	1 253	12
Iran	282	17 169	4 195	36	2 674	37
Israel	200	672	89	152	716	32
Japan	730	962	72	172	763	302
Jordan	37	493	224	6	99	3
Cambodia	22	419	163	14	96	3
Kazakhstan	17	911	153	9	150	0
China	1 271	8 475	1 991	503	1 730	2 677
North Korea	12	28	10	1	7	10
South Korea	4 350	1 079	95	416	1 289	6 057
Kuwait	5	403	151	12	76	6
Cyprus	83	177	5	28	166	5
Kyrgyzstan	0	219	35	2	46	0
Laos	0	110	17	2	50	0
Lebanon	155	2 216	973	41	647	15
Macao	0	79	10	1	10	0
Malaysia	122	751	96	72	344	39
Maldives	0	5	0	0	4	0
Mongolia	0	139	28	5	39	8
Oman	1	21	1	13	9	12
Palestine	99	3 361	780	40	217	8
Nepal	34	1 705	170	16	119	79
Pakistan	1 342	19 973	16 727	144	5 734	21
Timor-Leste	0	10	0	0	5	0
Qatar	2	57	16	6	4	21
Saudi Arabia	4	780	166	19	39	31
Singapore	147	397	40	165	317	228
Tajikistan	0	110	25	0	39	0
Turkmenistan	18	81	19	0	14	0
Uzbekistan	6	593	87	2	62	0
Syria	48	20 823	1 462	6	325	4
Thailand	504	18 634	890	1 048	7 659	453
Vietnam	705	13 750	8 908	100	2 029	202
Yemen	0	483	126	2	10	1
United States Virgin Islands	21	0	0	1	12	1
Barbados	12	21	0	2	24	0
Antigua and Barbuda	0	4	0	0	8	0
Belize	5	13	0	0	18	0
Bahamas	12	14	0	4	10	4
Bermuda	4	4	0	4	7	3
British Virgin Islands	2	1	0	1	2	3
Canada	3 365	1 855	133	594	2 802	681
Cayman Islands	0	5	2	0	2	0
Costa Rica	122	142	8	49	140	99
Cuba	21	1 004	95	36	585	4
Dominica	0	23	13	0	17	0
Dominican Republic	20	838	172	47	354	2
Franske Antiller	0	0	0	0	0	0
Grenada	16	15	3	3	26	0
Guadeloupe	0	2	0	1	4	0
Guatemala	158	191	21	49	184	213
Haiti	4	40	1	7	26	2
Honduras	33	107	22	8	99	5
Jamaica	40	150	18	13	160	5
Martinique	0	6	2	0	9	0
Mexico	141	1 192	91	116	879	23
Montserrat	0	2	0	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	53	27	8	18	38	13
Nicaragua	15	170	13	27	129	12
Panama	10	69	4	6	51	2
El Salvador	8	207	52	4	100	0
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	0	0	2	0	1
Saint Lucia	5	11	2	2	9	1
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	6	5	0	0	7	0
Trinidad and Tobago	346	252	12	60	412	30
Turks and Caicos Islands	0	2	0	0	0	0
United States	26 700	8 446	673	4 215	17 392	5 011
Puerto Rico	2	21	2	6	29	0
Saint Martin	0	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Barthélemy	0	0	0	0	0	0
Argentina	592	931	96	137	839	70
Bolivia	111	305	40	57	246	185
Brazil	480	4 403	244	550	2 719	527
Guyana	63	82	6	7	116	1
Chile	993	6 171	1 789	173	3 834	299
Colombia	1 455	1 891	188	294	1 085	3 694
Ecuador	197	508	62	52	374	225
Falkland Islands	0	1	2	0	0	0
French Guiana	0	3	0	1	1	0
Paraguay	50	113	9	21	89	28
Peru	161	1 306	143	87	929	175
Suriname	24	37	5	1	49	0
Uruguay	66	208	24	21	180	8
Venezuela	50	1 027	99	50	333	18
American Samoa	4	0	0	1	4	1
Australia	872	1 543	55	489	1 630	246
Solomon Islands	1	5	2	0	8	0
Christmas Island	6	0	0	0	0	1
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cook Islands	5	1	0	2	6	0
Fiji	16	36	0	7	42	0
Vanuatu	0	1	0	0	2	0
Tonga	8	5	0	0	9	0
French Polynesia	5	6	0	2	8	0
Kiribati	0	2	0	1	2	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	274	487	16	106	585	22
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	8	1	1	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