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. 2009 and 1990-2009
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 Unknown
I alt 2009 13 678 9 638 4 040 2 090 1 902 48
Selected countries            
Poland 2 160 1 983  177  161 14 2
Thailand 1 105  490  615 31  580 4
Germany  654  623 31 16 15 -
Somalia  582  492 90 90 - -
Iraq  555  360  195  191 3 1
Lithuania  456  429 27 18 6 3
Philippines  444  245  199 21  172 6
Pakistan  432  155  277  275 2 -
Russia  422  274  148 44  104 -
USA  349  207  142 23  114 5
India  334  245 89 81 4 4
Turkey  322  109  213  145 68 -
Brazil  297  137  160 10  149 1
Afghanistan  288  172  116  114 1 1
China  251  184 67 21 46 -
Romania  245  214 31 17 14 -
United Kingdom  207  151 56 8 45 3
Ethiopia  183  146 37 32 5 -
Netherlands  181  164 17 10 7 -
Ukraine  169  113 56 12 43 1
Iran  149 96 53 49 3 1
Latvia  144  131 13 5 7 1
             
I alt 1990-2009  165 003 97 858 67 145 28 164 38 933 48
Selected citizenships            
Poland 13 329 11 142 2 187  678 1 507 2
Thailand 10 964 3 483 7 481  313 7 164 4
Iraq 8 507 7 049 1 458 1 405 52 1
Somalia 8 407 7 627  780  769 11 -
Pakistan 7 774 2 874 4 900 4 720  180 -
Russia 7 705 4 035 3 670  364 3 306 -
USA 7 097 4 065 3 032  185 2 842 5
Germany 7 023 6 117  906  175  731 -
Turkey 6 196 2 201 3 995 2 518 1 477 -
United Kingdom 5 982 4 248 1 734  258 1 473 3
Philippines 5 782 2 056 3 726  429 3 291 6
Sri Lanka 4 116 2 026 2 090 2 007 83 -
Vietnam 3 976 1 954 2 022 1 700  322 -
Netherlands 3 352 2 960  392 84  308 -
India 3 239 1 849 1 390 1 186  200 4
Iran 3 144 1 744 1 400 1 255  144 1
China 3 096 1 960 1 136  585  551 -
Afghanistan 3 014 2 451  563  533 29 1
Morocco 2 720  688 2 032 1 215  816 1
Serbia and Montenegro2 2 488 1 133 1 355  996  359 -
Serbia3  498  256  242  210 32 -
Kosovo4  226 65  161  154 7 -
Montenegro3 26 5 21 16 5 -
1  First-time immigrations by familyunification among immigrants (born abroad to foreign-born parents) with non-Nordic citizenship.
2  For the years 1996-2006 this figure also includes citizens from the Montenegro.For 1990-2007 it includes Kosovo.
3  from 2007. Serbia and Montenegro was 1 November 2006 separated in two parts, in Serbia and in Montenegro.
4  From 2008.

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