Statistics Norway

Immigrants by reason for immigration

5 Immigrants with family as reason for immigration1, by type of family unification, immigrant category of reference person and citizenship. 2008 and 1990-2008
Citizenship Total Family reunification and accompanying person Family establishment
Total Reference person is an immigrant or Norwegian-born to immigrant parents Reference person belongs to the rest of the population
I alt 2008 16 760 11 899 4 861 2 161 2 700
Selected countries          
Poland 3 657 3 529  128 96 32
Germany 1 348 1 297 51 21 30
Thailand 1 171  385  786 33  753
Somalia  819  701  118  118 -
Lithuania  525  503 22 11 11
Philippines  508  229  279 31  248
Russia  462  244  218 27  191
India  420  356 64 56 8
Iraq  413  253  160  157 3
USA  402  215  187 24  163
Netherlands  394  373 21 7 14
Pakistan  375  128  247  245 2
China  292  161  131 44 87
Afghanistan  289  163  126  122 4
United Kingdom  279  215 64 12 52
Brazil  273 80  193 18  175
Romania  249  218 31 11 20
Vietnam  229 85  144  113 31
Turkey  219 44  175  114 61
Ukraine  166 75 91 12 79
           
I alt 1990-2008  151 325 88 220 63 105 26 074 37 031
Selected citizenships          
Poland 11 169 9 159 2 010  517 1 493
Thailand 9 859 2 993 6 866  282 6 584
Iraq 7 952 6 689 1 263 1 214 49
Somalia 7 825 7 135  690  679 11
Pakistan 7 342 2 719 4 623 4 445  178
Russia 7 283 3 761 3 522  320 3 202
USA 6 748 3 858 2 890  162 2 728
Germany 6 369 5 494  875  159  716
Turkey 5 874 2 092 3 782 2 373 1 409
United 5 775 4 097 1 678  250 1 428
Philippines 5 338 1 811 3 527  408 3 119
Sri Lanka 4 029 1 973 2 056 1 973 83
Vietnam 3 858 1 878 1 980 1 669  311
Netherlands 3 171 2 796  375 74  301
Iran 2 995 1 648 1 347 1 206  141
India 2 905 1 604 1 301 1 105  196
China 2 845 1 776 1 069  564  505
Afghanistan 2 726 2 279  447  419 28
Morocco 2 624  657 1 967 1 159  808
Serbia 2 488 1 133 1 355  996  359
1  First-time immigrations by familyunification among immigrants (born abroad to foreign-born parents) with non-Nordic citizenship.

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