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. 2011 and 1990-2011
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
Reference person unknown
I alt 2011 16 200 12 093 4 107 1 883 2 138 86
Selected countries            
Poland 2 489 2 473 16 5 9 2
Lithuania 1 742 1 732 10 6 3 1
Thailand 1 096  413  683 23  654 6
Philippines  687  340  347 39  298 10
Latvia  547  542 5 1 4 -
Germany  529  517 12 8 2 2
Romania  429  414 15 2 12 1
Somalia  408  358 50 50 - -
Russia  402  196  206 54  146 6
India  396  284  112  101 11 -
USA  373  241  132 28 99 5
Eritrea  363  332 31 31 - -
Iraq  351  161  190  184 5 1
Pakistan  341  117  224  216 6 2
United Kingdom  298  279 19 3 16 -
China  296  208 88 33 53 2
Brazil  253  104  149 3  142 4
Iran  246  128  118  111 4 3
Afghanistan  227  109  118  117 - 1
Ukraine  217  120 97 11 83 3
Bulgaria  215  207 8 - 8 -
Vietnam  202 90  112 81 30 1
             
I alt 1990-2011  196 283  121 327 74 956 32 044 42 465  447
Selected citizenships            
Poland 18 607 16 117 2 490  954 1 525 11
Thailand 13 029 4 343 8 686  357 8 264 65
Somalia 9 228 8 318  910  898 10 2
Iraq 9 189 7 409 1 780 1 719 58 3
Russia 8 480 4 454 4 026  456 3 539 31
Pakistan 8 442 3 113 5 329 5 139  182 8
Germany 8 120 7 167  953  206  735 12
USA 7 800 4 528 3 272  229 3 017 26
Philippines 7 043 2 715 4 328  496 3 790 42
Turkey 6 590 2 338 4 252 2 682 1 556 14
United Kingdom 6 564 4 768 1 796  272 1 509 15
Lithuania 5 648 5 160  488  160  321 7
Vietnam 4 349 2 165 2 184 1 814  363 7
Sri Lanka 4 306 2 118 2 188 2 099 87 2
India 3 944 2 355 1 589 1 370  210 9
Netherlands 3 748 3 345  403 91  309 3
China 3 669 2 361 1 308  657  645 6
Iran 3 496 1 937 1 559 1 404  146 9
Afghanistan 3 472 2 699  773  742 29 2
Morocco 2 911  731 2 180 1 333  841 6
1  First-time immigrations by familyunification among immigrants (born abroad to foreign-born parents) with non-Nordic citizenship.

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