Statistics Norway

Unemployment among immigrants

1 Registered unemployed, by immigrant background, region of birth and sex. In absolute figures and in per cent of the labour force within each group. By the end of August 2010 and 2011
  August 2010 August 2011 Changes 2010-2011
  In total Males Females In total Males Females In total Males Females
Registered unemployed, total 76 101 44 560 31 541 71 344 39 007 32 337 -4 757 -5 553  796
                  0
Non-immigrant population1 53 451 31 341 22 110 49 195 27 099 22 096 -4 256 -4 242 -14
                  0
Immigrants registered as residents, total 22 650 13 219 9 431 22 149 11 908 10 241 -501 -1 311  810
The Nordic countries 1 393  857  536 1 297  766  531 -96 -91 -5
Western Europe else 1 272  834  438 1 135  721  414 -137 -113 -24
EU countries in Eastern Europe 5 322 3 943 1 379 5 134 3 289 1 845 -188 -654  466
Eastern Europe else 2 384 1 151 1 233 2 287  985 1 302 -97 -166 69
North America and Oceania  182 93 89  166 95 71 -16 2 -18
Asia1 7 656 3 668 3 988 7 633 3 496 4 137 -23 -172  149
Africa 3 645 2 330 1 315 3 689 2 242 1 447 44 -88  132
South and Central America  796  343  453  808  314  494 12 -29 41
                   
  Per cent Percentage points
Registered unemployed, total 2.9 3.3 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.6 -0.2 -0.5 0.0
                   
Non-immigrant population1 2.3 2.6 2.0 2.2 2.3 2.0 -0.1 -0.3 0.0
                   
Immigrants registered as residents, total 7.8 8.1 7.5 7.0 6.6 7.6 -0.8 -1.5 0.1
The Nordic countries 3.3 3.9 2.6 2.8 3.1 2.5 -0.5 -0.8 -0.1
Western Europe else 3.6 3.7 3.4 3.0 3.0 3.1 -0.6 -0.7 -0.3
EU countries in Eastern Europe 8.8 9.6 7.0 6.8 6.4 7.7 -2.0 -3.2 0.7
Eastern Europe else 8.1 8.6 7.7 7.5 7.1 7.9 -0.6 -1.5 0.2
North America and Oceania 3.2 2.9 3.6 2.9 2.9 2.8 -0.3 0.0 -0.8
Asia1 9.4 8.8 10.1 9.1 8.2 10.1 -0.3 -0.6 0.0
Africa 15.0 15.7 13.8 14.4 14.4 14.3 -0.6 -1.3 0.5
South and Central America 7.5 7.0 7.9 7.4 6.3 8.5 -0.1 -0.7 0.6
1  Turkey is included.

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