Statistics Norway

Immigrants by reason for immigration

4 Immigrations1, by reason for immigration, year of immigration and immigrants still resident on 1 January 2010. 1990-2009. Absolute numbers and per cent.
Year of immigration Total Still resident 1.1. 2010
Total Reason for immigration
Labour Family Refugee Training Other Unknown reason for immigration2
1990-2009  420 387  316 153 77 504  134 302 81 786 18 205 1 168 3 188
1990 11 055 6 474  283 3 059 2 838  223 71 -
1991 11 089 6 303  223 2 774 3 004  255 47 -
1992 12 234 7 324  244 3 284 3 540  222 34 -
1993 16 773 10 655  196 3 125 7 082  235 17 -
1994 11 348 7 132  345 2 886 3 652  221 28 -
1995 10 222 6 291  437 3 016 2 565  239 34 -
1996 9 675 5 533  464 3 108 1 603  316 42 -
1997 11 541 6 968  635 4 105 1 833  341 54 -
1998 14 359 8 903  907 4 838 2 742  370 46 -
1999 22 237 13 339  785 5 631 6 418  459 46 -
2000 18 964 13 023  911 5 909 5 579  578 46 -
2001 17 365 12 301 1 131 6 485 3 987  656 42 -
2002 22 673 17 073 1 406 10 562 4 229  801 75 -
2003 19 795 15 171 1 295 7 638 5 334  847 57 -
2004 21 218 16 210 2 587 7 650 4 948  955 70 -
2005 23 910 18 500 4 581 8 880 3 803 1 173 63 -
2006 29 504 22 831 8 678 9 769 3 083 1 216 85 -
2007 44 253 35 731 16 361 12 293 5 143 1 845 89 -
2008 48 410 43 127 19 807 15 734 4 229 3 252  105 -
2009 43 762 43 264 16 228 13 556 6 174 4 001  117 3 188
  Immigrants still resident in per cent
1990-2009  100 75.2 71.9 81.4 83.3 41.1 59.7 99.9
1990  100 58.6 27.6 67.0 66.3 22.9 34.1 -
1991  100 56.8 21.2 63.2 66.6 24.1 56.0 -
1992  100 59.9 21.2 67.1 70.8 19.5 66.7 -
1993  100 63.5 17.2 65.6 73.7 19.4 39.5 -
1994  100 62.8 28.4 68.0 79.5 18.0 40.0 -
1995  100 61.5 30.6 69.6 83.1 18.4 43.0 -
1996  100 57.2 31.2 67.3 80.6 21.3 44.7 -
1997  100 60.4 34.2 69.9 85.9 21.7 51.9 -
1998  100 62.0 36.2 71.4 87.4 20.2 44.7 -
1999  100 60.0 37.8 75.3 60.4 23.5 47.4 -
2000  100 68.7 45.6 77.7 78.1 27.1 53.5 -
2001  100 70.8 47.6 77.3 93.4 29.3 43.3 -
2002  100 75.3 52.0 82.3 94.1 31.7 68.2 -
2003  100 76.6 54.4 82.9 96.8 32.5 65.5 -
2004  100 76.4 63.7 82.9 97.6 34.6 72.9 -
2005  100 77.4 71.2 85.2 97.0 38.7 64.9 -
2006  100 77.4 73.7 86.8 98.4 37.6 81.7 -
2007  100 80.7 76.5 89.9 98.5 47.6 82.4 -
2008  100 89.1 85.4 93.9 98.9 80.3 88.2 -
2009  100 98.9 98.3 99.1 99.9 98.0 96.7 99.9
1  First time immigrations by immigrants (born abroad to foreign-born parents) with non-Nordic citizenship.].
2  Unknown reason for immigration is a result of the new registration rule for EU/EEA/EFTA nationals. For mor information about right of residence in Norway for EU/EEA/EFTA nationals: http://www.udi.no/.

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