Statistics Norway

Immigrants by reason for immigration

6 Family immigrations1, by type of family unification, immigration category of reference person, year of immigration and citizenship. 2008
Selected citizenships and year of immigration Total Family reunification and accompanying person Family establishment
Total Reference person is an immigrant Reference person is Norwegian-born to immigrant parents Reference person belongs to the rest of the population
I alt 2008 16 760 11 899 4 861 1 965  196 2 700
Poland 3 657 3 529  128 94 2 32
Germany 1 348 1 297 51 20 1 30
Thailand 1 171  385  786 31 2  753
Somalia  819  701  118  118 - -
Lithuania  525  503 22 11 - 11
Philippines  508  229  279 28 3  248
Russia  462  244  218 27 -  191
India  420  356 64 50 6 8
Iraq  413  253  160  157 - 3
USA  402  215  187 21 3  163
Netherlands  394  373 21 7 - 14
Pakistan  375  128  247  136  109 2
China  292  161  131 43 1 87
Afghanistan  289  163  126  121 1 4
United Kingdom  279  215 64 12 - 52
Brazil  273 80  193 18 -  175
Romania  249  218 31 11 - 20
Vietnam  229 85  144  111 2 31
Turkey  219 44  175 88 26 61
Ukraine  166 75 91 12 - 79
Serbia  161 77 84 70 2 12
Ethiopia  152 94 58 46 - 12
Iran  152 74 78 68 1 9
Sri Lanka  151 68 83 75 2 6
France  146  130 16 5 - 11
Morocco  106 25 81 52 13 16
Canada  105 77 28 7 2 19
Bosnia-Herzegovina  101 35 66 63 - 3
1  First-time immigrations by familyunification among immigrants (born abroad to foreign-born parents) with non-Nordic citizenship.

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