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Population by immigrant category and country background.
	2021
	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	4 031 194	800 094	197 848	38 861	284 174	39 198
Norway	3 829 583	0	0	0	0	0
Denmark	33 188	18 833	2 000	4 081	31 559	1 355
Greenland	124	198	12	55	210	30
Finland	6 084	6 641	724	493	7 029	56
Faroe Islands	1 573	638	98	100	1 201	15
Iceland	2 226	7 062	864	356	3 507	53
Sweden	35 287	35 598	3 433	6 861	42 963	5 317
Albania	37	2 772	504	3	288	5
Belgium	1 059	1 360	139	301	1 209	296
Bulgaria	106	7 508	924	29	896	49
Andorra	0	12	0	0	2	0
Estonia	154	4 678	569	55	753	2
France	2 112	5 978	639	791	4 018	327
Gibraltar	1	3	0	6	13	0
Greece	477	3 520	214	200	1 117	42
Belarus	14	1 286	254	13	365	3
Ireland	493	1 064	62	115	1 027	25
Croatia	495	5 310	1 010	28	953	7
Italy	1 380	5 034	366	359	2 310	110
Latvia	141	11 316	1 548	35	859	12
Malta	57	90	6	21	79	6
Netherlands	4 339	8 100	997	815	5 804	323
Liechtenstein	7	21	3	2	4	0
Luxembourg	56	53	1	36	56	71
Monaco	4	11	2	2	8	2
Poland	2 755	102 147	15 184	311	6 522	69
Portugal	314	3 630	387	105	883	17
Romania	242	15 593	2 698	38	1 613	146
San Marino	0	6	3	0	1	0
Lithuania	34	41 322	7 242	55	1 474	1
Spain	1 800	7 019	586	716	2 998	212
Moldova	1	1 561	275	3	156	0
United Kingdom	17 423	15 480	1 103	4 067	21 366	1 271
Russia	503	18 382	4 179	266	4 469	220
Switzerland	1 563	1 586	190	592	1 902	346
Turkey	964	13 293	7 386	155	4 273	28
Germany	13 821	25 231	3 408	2 547	16 092	891
Slovenia	68	460	77	6	147	0
Ukraine	70	6 298	942	101	1 470	35
Hungary	2 120	3 972	825	98	1 641	337
Austria	1 548	1 407	131	248	1 568	99
Vatican City State	0	1	0	0	0	0
Bosnia-Herzegovina	273	13 935	4 803	16	1 939	1
North Macedonia	231	3 032	1 516	17	758	1
Slovakia	99	3 726	597	13	393	0
Czech Republic	850	2 214	375	45	982	12
Serbia	472	7 632	1 654	27	892	13
Montenegro	18	518	195	3	81	1
Kosovo	277	10 453	6 162	26	1 585	5
Guernsey	0	5	1	0	0	0
Jersey	0	4	0	0	0	0
Isle of Man	0	0	0	0	0	0
Algeria	318	1 307	596	16	676	3
Angola	19	484	90	22	201	2
Botswana	13	73	8	32	64	18
Saint Helena	21	2	0	2	15	0
British Indian Ocean Territory	2	1	0	0	2	0
Burundi	0	1 126	475	2	112	2
Comoros	3	5	2	0	1	0
Benin	0	30	5	2	9	0
Equatorial Guinea	0	13	1	0	0	0
Côte d'Ivore	38	327	94	8	183	33
Eritrea	269	23 523	6 690	22	406	102
Ethiopia	573	8 764	3 616	116	777	836
Egypt	296	1 418	283	43	609	11
Djibouti	5	60	55	0	5	0
Gabon	0	12	3	1	7	0
Gambia	198	1 252	623	13	790	0
Ghana	83	2 099	912	27	658	9
Guinea	11	314	126	0	50	0
Guinea-Bissau	2	77	15	1	29	0
Cameroon	303	680	200	9	262	128
Cape Verde	293	381	139	8	294	7
Kenya	332	2 041	402	182	1 072	210
Congo-Brazzaville	26	243	80	5	53	8
Congo	234	3 558	963	20	328	56
Lesotho	0	9	0	2	6	0
Liberia	79	888	362	18	157	35
Libya	14	930	178	8	91	4
Madagascar	1 062	198	44	55	486	239
Malawi	1	115	8	7	31	1
Mali	5	45	28	1	31	12
Morocco	940	6 256	4 658	63	2 629	10
Western Sahara	2	27	0	0	12	0
Mauritania	1	73	2	1	16	1
Mauritius	100	189	47	13	179	0
Namibia	13	83	3	20	68	4
Niger	1	53	18	1	36	0
Nigeria	142	2 042	665	22	806	17
Mozambique	39	176	23	16	113	9
Mayotte	0	0	0	0	0	0
Réunion	0	4	0	1	2	0
Zimbabwe	81	285	43	26	168	25
Rwanda	8	662	254	4	86	7
Sao Tome and Principe	0	8	0	0	0	0
Senegal	16	317	108	8	144	4
Central African Republic	0	48	3	0	1	0
Seychelles	6	15	3	2	20	0
Sierra Leone	67	496	199	5	210	2
Somalia	58	28 402	15 191	17	847	11
Spanish territories in Africa	0	0	0	0	0	0
South Sudan	8	406	98	1	18	1
Sudan	31	4 907	1 438	2	148	7
Eswatini	20	11	0	4	16	6
South Africa	1 194	1 291	97	271	1 223	380
Tanzania	181	768	180	81	516	98
Chad	0	43	8	1	5	0
Togo	6	123	56	1	36	1
Tunisia	229	1 134	490	26	794	9
Uganda	111	2 167	310	50	506	13
Zambia	58	469	52	63	269	38
Burkina Faso	1	35	5	0	18	3
Afghanistan	11	17 391	4 970	5	361	2
Armenia	12	336	74	1	41	3
Azerbaijan	4	594	148	7	77	3
Bahrain	4	23	6	11	22	6
Bangladesh	202	1 315	433	13	161	130
Bhutan	5	364	60	1	16	7
Brunei	9	18	3	4	8	15
Myanmar	12	3 208	1 016	1	93	1
Sri Lanka	512	9 205	6 613	61	1 151	185
United Arab Emirates	7	546	143	70	58	92
Philippines	1 879	23 058	3 279	1 209	11 119	710
Georgia	0	357	56	11	64	3
Taiwan	145	334	38	27	168	100
Hong Kong	393	862	252	72	380	139
India	1 989	14 610	4 672	186	1 996	1 356
Indonesia	472	1 554	335	105	761	183
Iraq	98	23 265	11 406	22	1 627	14
Iran	434	18 748	5 017	38	3 089	35
Israel	265	725	102	161	760	32
Japan	826	1 105	99	189	873	300
Jordan	44	709	251	10	115	4
Cambodia	29	466	182	22	136	3
Kazakhstan	17	1 029	204	11	179	0
China	1 353	9 322	2 452	549	2 032	2 678
North Korea	15	27	10	1	7	10
South Korea	5 023	1 316	128	441	1 520	6 077
Kuwait	9	488	185	12	83	8
Cyprus	107	191	7	30	170	6
Kyrgyzstan	0	246	57	3	61	0
Laos	0	148	23	4	62	0
Lebanon	230	2 942	1 091	55	724	15
Macao	0	64	12	1	13	0
Malaysia	148	866	124	82	399	40
Maldives	2	4	0	0	4	0
Mongolia	0	151	36	5	43	8
Oman	2	25	1	12	15	12
Palestine	115	3 382	1 022	51	236	7
Nepal	47	2 272	366	15	139	79
Pakistan	2 066	21 372	17 885	202	7 108	23
Timor-Leste	0	10	0	0	6	0
Qatar	4	63	24	9	6	21
Saudi Arabia	7	1 018	284	20	72	31
Singapore	189	464	47	190	357	249
Tajikistan	0	127	32	0	44	0
Turkmenistan	19	93	19	0	17	0
Uzbekistan	6	686	137	2	78	0
Syria	75	32 791	4 790	12	441	4
Thailand	765	21 528	1 179	1 330	8 861	474
Vietnam	1 175	14 373	9 438	122	2 467	206
Yemen	2	672	178	2	15	1
United States Virgin Islands	20	0	0	1	12	1
Barbados	13	22	0	3	29	0
Antigua and Barbuda	0	5	0	0	9	0
Belize	5	16	0	0	18	0
Bahamas	12	20	0	4	14	4
Bermuda	4	6	0	4	7	2
British Virgin Islands	2	1	0	1	2	3
Canada	3 595	2 118	149	633	3 007	677
Cayman Islands	0	4	2	0	3	0
Costa Rica	145	196	8	54	166	99
Cuba	28	1 087	137	42	688	4
Dominica	0	22	10	0	16	0
Dominican Republic	27	939	207	51	441	2
Franske Antiller	0	0	0	0	0	0
Grenada	19	14	3	3	28	0
Guadeloupe	0	2	0	1	4	1
Guatemala	180	221	21	50	226	212
Haiti	5	41	3	5	31	2
Honduras	40	133	27	11	114	5
Jamaica	47	169	24	14	176	5
Martinique	0	6	0	0	10	0
Mexico	164	1 551	110	145	1 090	24
Montserrat	0	5	0	0	0	0
Aruba	36	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	1	0	0	0	0
Curaçao	58	21	4	18	36	13
Nicaragua	21	204	17	28	159	12
Panama	10	91	5	7	59	2
El Salvador	14	237	56	10	125	0
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	0	0	2	0	1
Saint Lucia	5	12	3	2	11	1
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	6	6	0	0	8	0
Trinidad and Tobago	391	276	15	60	426	30
Turks and Caicos Islands	0	3	0	0	1	0
United States	28 823	9 612	729	4 458	18 077	5 075
Puerto Rico	3	24	2	6	29	0
Saint Martin	0	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Barthélemy	0	0	0	0	0	0
Argentina	643	1 189	128	146	946	71
Bolivia	156	346	50	61	274	186
Brazil	630	5 741	371	647	3 373	527
Guyana	74	84	7	8	118	1
Chile	1 449	6 145	1 858	180	4 151	297
Colombia	1 855	2 297	245	326	1 397	3 744
Ecuador	233	596	70	51	428	224
Falkland Islands	0	1	2	0	0	0
French Guiana	0	6	0	1	6	0
Paraguay	58	136	13	23	103	28
Peru	212	1 448	165	99	1 088	188
Suriname	29	40	8	1	50	0
Uruguay	88	223	29	21	194	8
Venezuela	56	1 344	150	52	393	18
American Samoa	6	0	0	1	4	1
Australia	967	1 869	72	575	1 889	255
Solomon Islands	3	4	0	0	8	0
Christmas Island	8	0	0	0	0	1
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cook Islands	7	0	0	2	6	0
Fiji	18	37	1	5	46	0
Vanuatu	0	1	0	0	2	0
Tonga	11	6	0	0	9	0
French Polynesia	6	7	0	1	8	0
Kiribati	0	2	0	1	3	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	305	545	22	117	645	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	9	2	2	2	2
Pitcairn	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tokelau	0	0	0	0	0	0
Samoa	0	6	0	1	4	0
Wallis and Futuna Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0
New Caledonia	7	7	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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