Statistics Norway

Employment among immigrants (register based)

3 Employed, by immigrant category, world region, sex and labour market status. Absolute figures and in per cent of persons aged 15-74 years in each group. Q4 2009
  Total Males Females
  Employed, total Employees Self employed Employed, total Employees Self employed Employed, total Employees Self employed
Total population 2 497 000 2 326 000  171 000 1 315 147 1 194 687  120 460 1 181 853 1 131 313 50 540
Thereof:                  
Immigrants, total  251 134  236 625 14 509  139 012  129 539 9 473  112 122  107 086 5 036
The Nordic countries 39 412 36 638 2 774 20 048 18 298 1 750 19 364 18 340 1 024
Western Europe else 32 884 30 584 2 300 20 433 19 002 1 431 12 451 11 582  869
EU countries in Eastern Europe 46 699 44 742 1 957 30 695 29 395 1 300 16 004 15 347  657
Eastern Europe else 25 837 24 929  908 11 600 11 041  559 14 237 13 888  349
North America and Oceania 5 659 5 185  474 3 131 2 876  255 2 528 2 309  219
Asia1 71 700 66 668 5 032 37 108 33 634 3 474 34 592 33 034 1 558
Africa 19 559 18 921  638 11 777 11 305  472 7 782 7 616  166
South and Central America 9 384 8 958  426 4 220 3 988  232 5 164 4 970  194
                   
Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, total2 14 095 13 613  482 7 326 6 991  335 6 769 6 622  147
The Nordic countries 1 325 1 232 93  705  644 61  620  588 32
Western Europe else  930  875 55  509  471 38  421  404 17
EU countries in Eastern Europe  674  639 35  356  335 21  318  304 14
Eastern Europe else  819  797 22  377  367 10  442  430 12
North America and Oceania  131  128 3 61 59 2 70 69 1
Asia1 8 586 8 337  249 4 520 4 336  184 4 066 4 001 65
Africa 1 141 1 123 18  551  538 13  590  585 5
South and Central America  489  482 7  247  241 6  242  241 1
                   
          Per cent
Total population 69.7 64.9 4.8 72.4 65.7 6.6 67.0 64.1 2.9
Thereof:                  
Immigrants, total 61.7 58.1 3.6 65.9 61.4 4.5 57.1 54.6 2.6
The Nordic countries 74.6 69.3 5.3 76.0 69.4 6.6 73.1 69.2 3.9
Western Europe else 71.7 66.7 5.0 75.7 70.4 5.3 66.0 61.4 4.6
EU countries in Eastern Europe 70.6 67.6 3.0 72.9 69.8 3.1 66.6 63.8 2.7
Eastern Europe else 61.0 58.9 2.1 62.4 59.4 3.0 59.9 58.5 1.5
North America and Oceania 64.7 59.3 5.4 71.0 65.3 5.8 58.3 53.3 5.1
Asia1 53.9 50.1 3.8 59.3 53.7 5.6 49.1 46.9 2.2
Africa 45.4 43.9 1.5 50.2 48.2 2.0 39.5 38.7 0.8
South and Central America 62.8 60.0 2.9 67.0 63.3 3.7 59.8 57.5 2.3
                   
Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, total2 53.6 51.8 1.8 54.0 51.5 2.5 53.1 52.0 1.2
The Nordic countries 72.2 67.1 5.1 73.7 67.4 6.4 70.5 66.8 3.6
Western Europe else 68.9 64.8 4.1 71.2 65.9 5.3 66.3 63.6 2.7
EU countries in Eastern Europe 63.4 60.1 3.3 65.1 61.2 3.8 61.6 58.9 2.7
Eastern Europe else 50.2 48.8 1.4 46.9 45.7 1.2 53.4 51.9 1.5
North America and Oceania 60.4 59.0 1.4 60.4 58.4 2.0 60.3 59.5 0.9
Asia1 51.9 50.4 1.5 52.9 50.8 2.2 50.8 50.0 0.8
Africa 43.1 42.4 0.7 40.4 39.5 1.0 46.0 45.6 0.4
South and Central America 47.9 47.2 0.7 45.7 44.6 1.1 50.4 50.2 0.2
1  Including Turkey.
2  By mothers native country.

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