Statistics Norway

Immigrants by reason for immigration

4 Immigrations1, by reason for immigration, year of immigration and immigrants still resident on 1 January 2009. 1990-2008. Absolute numbers and per cent.
Year of immigration Total Still resident 1.1. 2009 Other
Total Reason for immigration
Labour Family Refugee Training
1990-2008  376 625  283 580 66 874  123 149 76 098 16 373 1 086
1990 11 055 6 512  287 3 074 2 856  222 73
1991 11 089 6 327  227 2 784 3 017  252 47
1992 12 234 7 367  249 3 297 3 568  219 34
1993 16 773 10 705  195 3 143 7 116  234 17
1994 11 348 7 163  348 2 903 3 664  220 28
1995 10 222 6 336  432 3 030 2 602  238 34
1996 9 675 5 561  460 3 119 1 627  314 41
1997 11 541 7 004  643 4 134 1 839  335 53
1998 14 359 8 935  915 4 853 2 755  366 46
1999 22 237 13 423  800 5 671 6 447  459 46
2000 18 964 13 157  911 5 957 5 659  584 46
2001 17 365 12 379 1 139 6 528 4 009  659 44
2002 22 673 17 202 1 428 10 639 4 252  804 79
2003 19 795 15 303 1 323 7 716 5 352  852 60
2004 21 218 16 456 2 675 7 750 4 973  984 74
2005 23 910 18 923 4 717 9 090 3 818 1 232 66
2006 29 504 23 806 9 062 10 044 3 093 1 519 88
2007 44 253 39 468 18 490 12 810 5 182 2 892 94
2008 48 410 47 553 22 573 16 607 4 269 3 988  116
  Immigrants still resident in per cent
1990-2008  100 75.3 73.3 81.4 82.7 40.7 59.1
1990  100 58.9 27.9 67.3 66.8 22.8 35.1
1991  100 57.1 21.6 63.4 66.9 23.8 56.0
1992  100 60.2 21.6 67.3 71.4 19.2 66.7
1993  100 63.8 17.1 65.9 74.0 19.3 39.5
1994  100 63.1 28.6 68.4 79.7 18.0 40.0
1995  100 62.0 30.3 69.9 84.3 18.4 43.0
1996  100 57.5 30.9 67.5 81.8 21.1 43.6
1997  100 60.7 34.6 70.4 86.1 21.3 51.0
1998  100 62.2 36.5 71.6 87.8 20.0 44.7
1999  100 60.4 38.5 75.8 60.6 23.5 47.4
2000  100 69.4 45.6 78.3 79.2 27.4 53.5
2001  100 71.3 47.9 77.9 93.9 29.5 45.4
2002  100 75.9 52.8 82.9 94.7 31.8 71.8
2003  100 77.3 55.6 83.7 97.2 32.7 69.0
2004  100 77.6 65.8 84.0 98.1 35.7 77.1
2005  100 79.1 73.3 87.2 97.4 40.6 68.0
2006  100 80.7 76.9 89.3 98.8 46.9 84.6
2007  100 89.2 86.5 93.7 99.2 74.6 87.0
2008  100 98.2 97.3 99.1 99.9 98.4 97.5
1  First time immigrations by immigrants (born abroad to foreign-born parents) with non-Nordic citizenship.

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