Statistics Norway

Employment among immigrants (register based)

4 Employed immigrants by world region of birth and period of residence in Norway. Absolute figures and in per cent of persons aged 15-74 years in each group. Q4 2010
  Employed in total Total Employed immigrants
  The Nordic countries Western Europe else EU countries in Eastern Europe Eastern Europe else North America and Oceania Asia1 Africa South and Central America
Total 2 517 000  274 826 42 192 35 043 58 645 27 141 5 824 75 208 20 899 9 874
                     
Less then 1 year   24 131 5 058 2 882 11 903  762  453 1 975  685  413
1 until 2 years   22 200 3 353 2 921 9 479  999  424 3 315 1 183  526
2 until 3 years   23 509 2 440 3 801 10 224 1 103  420 3 747 1 173  601
3 until 4 years   21 193 1 821 3 081 9 449 1 199  349 3 466 1 313  515
4 until 5 years   14 279 1 423 2 122 5 209  947  279 2 845 1 044  410
5 until 6 years   11 364 1 140 1 477 2 715 1 194  232 2 978 1 236  392
6 until 7 years   10 070 1 023 1 264 1 583 1 301  180 3 082 1 254  383
7 until 10 years   27 838 3 251 3 026 2 182 3 747  484 10 631 3 529  988
10 until 15 years   35 079 7 018 4 047 1 731 5 261  752 11 618 3 481 1 171
15 years or more   85 163 15 665 10 422 4 170 10 628 2 251 31 551 6 001 4 475
                     
          Per cent
Total 69.1 61.6 74.6 70.8 70.9 61.5 64.1 53.3 43.9 62.9
                     
Less then 1 year   51.8 76.7 56.6 65.9 41.7 45.1 22.6 16.0 40.1
1 until 2 years   56.6 80.3 66.8 70.6 53.7 52.3 34.6 29.7 50.7
2 until 3 years   63.9 80.7 73.9 72.4 56.8 65.4 46.3 41.5 59.5
3 until 4 years   66.1 80.3 75.8 72.3 62.0 69.8 53.1 44.6 65.3
4 until 5 years   67.0 80.8 78.6 74.2 62.4 70.8 56.2 46.6 65.4
5 until 6 years   65.8 79.4 76.7 76.7 64.2 70.7 57.9 51.1 63.3
6 until 7 years   65.5 81.2 81.1 79.9 63.1 66.4 58.9 51.1 69.9
7 until 10 years   62.6 78.5 81.3 77.8 65.1 68.8 57.5 47.5 68.6
10 until 15 years   63.9 80.1 81.0 75.3 62.7 70.1 57.0 47.9 66.6
15 years or more   61.6 67.7 65.4 65.1 62.6 67.0 58.7 51.0 65.5
1  Including Turkey.

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