Statistics Norway

Employment among immigrants (register based)

9 Employed immigrants, by selcted countries of birth1 and sex. Absolute figures and in per cent of persons aged 15-74 years within each group Q4 2010
  Total Males Females Per cent Difference in percentage points in men's favour Relative difference in men's favour
  Total Males Females
Employed in total 2 517 000 1 324 998 1 192 002 69.1 71.6 66.5 5.1 7.7
Employed immigrants in total  274 826  152 462  122 364 61.6 65.8 57.1 8.7 15.2
Thereof                
Sweden 24 093 12 315 11 778 78.9 79.6 78.2 1.4 1.8
Lithuania 9 919 6 025 3 894 74.6 76.1 72.3 3.8 5.3
Iceland 3 439 1 909 1 530 73.9 76.9 70.4 6.5 9.2
Romania 3 475 1 881 1 594 73.6 77.8 69.2 8.6 12.4
Netherlands 3 968 2 335 1 633 73.2 77.1 68.2 8.9 13.0
Germany 14 398 8 191 6 207 73.0 75.9 69.5 6.4 9.2
Lithuania 2 944 1 717 1 227 72.1 74.8 68.5 6.3 9.2
United Kingom 7 972 5 692 2 280 70.2 75.4 60.0 15.4 25.7
Poland 35 076 24 477 10 599 69.7 73.0 63.0 10.0 15.9
Denmark 10 345 5 844 4 501 69.2 73.3 64.6 8.7 13.5
Sri Lanka 5 751 3 303 2 448 68.8 74.8 62.1 12.7 20.5
Finland 3 818 1 445 2 373 67.1 63.1 69.8 -6.7 -9.6
Chile 3 908 2 167 1 741 66.6 69.5 63.4 6.1 9.6
Bosnia-Herzegovina 7 947 3 995 3 952 64.6 65.1 64.1 1.0 1.6
India 4 249 2 554 1 695 64.6 72.3 55.6 16.7 30.0
USA 3 775 1 988 1 787 62.1 67.0 57.5 9.5 16.5
Vietnam 7 742 3 850 3 892 62.1 65.5 59.0 6.5 11.0
Thailand 6 877  631 6 246 60.8 49.1 62.3 -13.2 -21.2
Russia 7 321 2 203 5 118 60.1 57.8 61.1 -3.3 -5.4
China 3 659 1 654 2 005 59.4 63.6 56.3 7.3 13.0
The Philippines 7 296 1 382 5 914 58.6 67.8 56.7 11.1 19.6
Kosovo 5 052 2 864 2 188 57.8 61.3 53.7 7.6 14.2
Ethiopia 2 344 1 250 1 094 56.9 58.2 55.5 2.7 4.9
Iran 7 341 4 230 3 111 55.9 58.2 53.0 5.2 9.8
Tyrkia [Turkey]. 5 283 3 487 1 796 52.2 60.4 41.3 19.1 46.2
Marocco 2 240 1 421  819 47.2 52.5 40.1 12.4 30.9
Pakistan 7 738 5 318 2 420 46.9 62.1 30.5 31.6  103.6
Afghanistan 3 622 2 683  939 42.3 48.7 30.6 18.1 59.2
Iraq 7 656 5 139 2 517 41.3 47.9 32.2 15.7 48.8
Eritrea 2 086 1 147  939 39.0 40.6 37.1 3.5 9.4
Somalia 4 867 3 209 1 658 30.0 36.6 22.2 14.4 64.9
1  With more than 4 000 settled immigrants.

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