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Population by immigrant category and country background.
	2018
	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	4 040 678	746 661	169 964	36 836	262 617	38 863
Norway	3 854 965	0	0	0	0	0
Denmark	31 706	19 267	1 970	3 984	30 827	1 339
Greenland	109	202	16	56	194	30
Finland	5 671	6 320	663	466	6 810	56
Faroe Islands	1 531	670	94	101	1 192	17
Iceland	2 018	7 480	844	345	3 239	51
Sweden	33 046	35 813	3 057	6 713	39 738	5 338
Albania	36	1 799	312	1	233	5
Belgium	991	1 216	118	280	1 127	296
Bulgaria	72	7 000	712	26	816	40
Andorra	0	15	0	0	2	0
Estonia	155	4 763	470	52	666	2
France	1 920	5 273	550	764	3 721	321
Gibraltar	0	3	0	5	13	0
Greece	409	2 828	151	196	1 039	40
Belarus	11	1 114	194	11	326	3
Ireland	432	1 021	55	109	945	24
Croatia	457	4 466	852	24	844	6
Italy	1 285	4 315	264	344	2 155	108
Latvia	142	10 137	1 180	37	735	11
Malta	49	80	5	18	76	3
Netherlands	3 929	7 773	897	784	5 517	319
Liechtenstein	7	19	3	2	4	0
Luxembourg	41	46	0	33	47	69
Monaco	4	10	1	2	7	2
Poland	2 474	98 212	12 297	296	5 813	68
Portugal	270	3 218	291	96	784	14
Romania	212	14 206	2 017	34	1 406	147
San Marino	0	5	3	0	1	0
Lithuania	30	38 371	5 559	51	1 201	1
Spain	1 681	6 211	425	648	2 768	189
Moldova	0	1 103	157	3	134	0
United Kingdom	16 265	14 261	1 026	3 886	20 449	1 252
Russia	469	17 480	3 510	240	3 972	217
Switzerland	1 435	1 404	171	577	1 798	344
Turkey	719	11 632	6 975	131	3 857	26
Germany	13 132	24 445	3 097	2 495	15 201	886
Slovenia	61	417	59	6	124	0
Ukraine	69	5 201	681	77	1 208	9
Hungary	2 040	3 824	733	86	1 574	309
Austria	1 486	1 300	115	247	1 512	99
Vatican City State	0	1	0	0	0	0
Bosnia-Herzegovina	209	13 670	4 300	14	1 603	1
Macedonia	178	2 784	1 393	16	671	1
Slovakia	100	3 805	484	9	331	0
Czech Republic	828	2 222	324	41	929	12
Serbia	432	5 998	1 166	26	769	13
Montenegro	18	454	170	1	66	1
Kosovo	184	10 150	5 492	22	1 304	4
Guernsey	0	1	0	0	0	0
Jersey	0	2	0	0	0	0
Isle of Man	0	0	0	0	0	0
Algeria	267	1 246	540	13	645	3
Angola	16	471	78	18	191	3
Botswana	12	70	8	31	66	19
Saint Helena	20	2	0	2	15	0
British Indian Ocean Territory	2	1	0	0	2	0
Burundi	0	1 092	406	2	90	2
Comoros	3	5	2	0	1	0
Benin	0	29	4	2	6	0
Equatorial Guinea	0	12	1	0	0	0
Côte d'Ivore	29	321	71	8	154	33
Eritrea	216	21 747	4 471	23	349	103
Ethiopia	491	8 238	2 817	110	678	835
Egypt	258	1 229	238	38	563	12
Djibouti	4	61	53	0	5	0
Gabon	0	11	2	1	8	0
Gambia	143	1 212	582	11	751	0
Ghana	63	1 978	829	24	591	10
Guinea	11	289	103	0	43	0
Guinea-Bissau	1	62	13	1	26	0
Cameroon	281	634	158	9	233	131
Cape Verde	268	382	137	7	285	7
Kenya	292	1 848	337	176	955	201
Congo-Brazzaville	25	243	63	5	45	8
Congo	214	2 287	738	19	274	55
Lesotho	0	8	0	2	5	0
Liberia	71	900	328	14	137	35
Libya	11	697	150	8	83	4
Madagascar	1 003	199	39	54	467	236
Malawi	1	108	5	7	26	0
Mali	4	40	25	1	30	12
Morocco	736	5 939	4 324	54	2 441	10
Western Sahara	1	35	0	0	10	0
Mauritania	0	64	0	1	14	1
Mauritius	91	184	48	12	171	0
Namibia	11	73	2	17	60	4
Niger	0	56	17	1	33	0
Nigeria	105	1 862	578	20	733	15
Mozambique	35	168	19	15	104	9
Mayotte	0	0	0	0	0	0
Réunion	0	3	0	1	1	0
Zimbabwe	65	251	42	27	144	27
Rwanda	7	629	219	1	71	7
Sao Tome and Principe	0	6	0	0	0	0
Senegal	12	288	93	8	127	4
Central African Republic	0	22	2	0	1	0
Seychelles	6	10	2	2	20	0
Sierra Leone	55	498	181	5	195	2
Somalia	42	28 754	13 652	16	722	10
Spanish territories in Africa	0	0	0	0	0	0
South Sudan	6	176	78	1	17	1
Sudan	26	4 556	926	2	117	7
Swaziland	18	7	0	4	16	6
South Africa	1 111	1 054	75	243	1 111	346
Tanzania	145	753	161	74	460	96
Chad	0	30	6	1	5	0
Togo	4	114	52	1	33	1
Tunisia	185	1 054	431	24	762	9
Uganda	96	1 243	270	43	439	12
Zambia	50	452	41	56	241	37
Burkina Faso	1	32	3	0	18	0
Afghanistan	7	16 782	3 980	1	243	1
Armenia	11	321	62	1	34	3
Azerbaijan	3	528	127	6	68	3
Bahrain	1	16	5	11	20	6
Bangladesh	190	1 079	359	13	155	129
Bhutan	3	365	47	1	10	7
Brunei	5	13	3	4	6	16
Myanmar	12	3 212	828	1	76	1
Sri Lanka	370	9 173	6 317	64	1 020	185
United Arab Emirates	4	445	128	52	46	85
Philippines	1 406	21 383	2 589	1 056	9 691	690
Georgia	0	327	53	8	54	0
Taiwan	122	293	34	20	144	87
Hong Kong	348	827	243	65	349	141
India	1 649	11 698	4 107	175	1 839	1 360
Indonesia	445	1 323	276	98	680	182
Iraq	67	23 118	10 298	19	1 329	12
Iran	317	17 728	4 422	38	2 770	37
Israel	213	685	92	146	723	32
Japan	751	1 049	84	179	786	303
Jordan	39	573	234	6	103	3
Cambodia	24	431	166	15	106	3
Kazakhstan	17	919	166	9	160	0
China	1 286	8 812	2 144	524	1 829	2 680
North Korea	12	26	10	1	6	10
South Korea	4 471	1 150	105	426	1 385	6 069
Kuwait	8	447	161	12	79	7
Cyprus	84	179	5	27	166	5
Kyrgyzstan	0	232	42	2	52	0
Laos	0	118	19	2	57	0
Lebanon	167	2 452	1 002	42	673	15
Macao	0	72	12	1	11	0
Malaysia	128	770	100	74	364	40
Maldives	1	5	0	0	4	0
Mongolia	0	140	31	5	41	8
Oman	1	24	1	12	10	12
Palestine	101	3 338	824	41	220	7
Nepal	36	1 967	216	16	124	79
Pakistan	1 492	20 372	17 040	174	6 092	21
Timor-Leste	0	11	0	0	5	0
Qatar	2	57	17	10	4	21
Saudi Arabia	4	857	201	21	42	31
Singapore	155	404	42	173	323	245
Tajikistan	0	114	27	0	41	0
Turkmenistan	19	86	21	0	15	0
Uzbekistan	6	647	104	2	66	0
Syria	49	27 392	2 497	6	306	3
Thailand	563	19 507	959	1 123	8 009	459
Vietnam	796	13 973	9 092	107	2 142	203
Yemen	1	559	144	2	11	1
United States Virgin Islands	21	0	0	1	13	1
Barbados	12	21	0	2	26	0
Antigua and Barbuda	0	5	0	0	8	0
Belize	5	14	0	0	18	0
Bahamas	12	14	0	4	11	4
Bermuda	4	3	0	4	7	3
British Virgin Islands	2	1	0	1	2	3
Canada	3 427	1 943	137	604	2 862	675
Cayman Islands	0	5	2	0	3	0
Costa Rica	130	149	7	50	152	99
Cuba	21	1 033	114	38	614	4
Dominica	0	23	13	0	17	0
Dominican Republic	22	874	179	47	371	2
Franske Antiller	0	0	0	0	0	0
Grenada	17	14	3	3	25	0
Guadeloupe	0	2	0	1	4	0
Guatemala	165	196	19	51	195	213
Haiti	4	41	2	7	28	2
Honduras	35	107	23	8	104	5
Jamaica	41	160	20	13	162	5
Martinique	0	6	2	0	9	0
Mexico	146	1 261	88	117	933	24
Montserrat	0	3	0	0	0	0
Aruba	35	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	52	24	6	18	38	13
Nicaragua	16	177	13	26	139	12
Panama	10	71	5	7	53	2
El Salvador	11	212	54	5	103	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	363	257	13	60	412	30
Turks and Caicos Islands	0	3	0	0	0	0
United States	27 157	8 637	687	4 248	17 548	5 042
Puerto Rico	2	22	2	6	29	0
Saint Martin	0	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Barthélemy	0	0	0	0	0	0
Argentina	612	992	109	144	871	70
Bolivia	119	315	40	61	255	186
Brazil	517	4 650	272	587	2 892	524
Guyana	66	82	6	7	116	1
Chile	1 101	6 142	1 784	174	3 908	299
Colombia	1 547	1 976	203	305	1 201	3 719
Ecuador	201	528	61	51	381	225
Falkland Islands	0	1	2	0	0	0
French Guiana	0	4	0	1	1	0
Paraguay	52	120	10	21	95	28
Peru	175	1 330	146	90	973	177
Suriname	24	36	7	1	49	0
Uruguay	74	215	28	21	184	8
Venezuela	50	1 052	113	51	350	18
American Samoa	4	0	0	1	4	1
Australia	890	1 588	62	509	1 683	251
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	17	36	0	7	42	0
Vanuatu	0	1	0	0	2	0
Tonga	8	6	0	0	9	0
French Polynesia	5	7	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	282	501	18	105	598	21
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	9	1	1	2	2
Pitcairn	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tokelau	0	0	0	0	0	0
Samoa	0	3	0	1	4	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

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