Immigration
As of 2012, an official study shows that the quotient of the total population that is either born outside Norway, or has one or two parents born abroad, or has one or more grandparents born abroad is 1100000 to 5017500 (which equals 21.9 percent).
As of 2012, an official study shows that 86.2% of the total population are Ethnic Norwegians and more than 660 000 individuals (13,2%) are migrants and their descendants (110 000 second generation migrants born in Norway).
Of these 660 000 immigrants and their descendants:
- 335 000 (51%) have a Western background (Australia, North America, Europe)
- 325 000 (49%) have a non-Western background (Turkey, Morocco, Iraq, Somalia, Pakistan, Iran).
Read more about this topic: Demographics Of Norway
Famous quotes containing the word immigration:
“I was interested to see how a pioneer lived on this side of the country. His life is in some respects more adventurous than that of his brother in the West; for he contends with winter as well as the wilderness, and there is a greater interval of time at least between him and the army which is to follow. Here immigration is a tide which may ebb when it has swept away the pines; there it is not a tide, but an inundation, and roads and other improvements come steadily rushing after.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The admission of Oriental immigrants who cannot be amalgamated with our people has been made the subject either of prohibitory clauses in our treaties and statutes or of strict administrative regulations secured by diplomatic negotiations. I sincerely hope that we may continue to minimize the evils likely to arise from such immigration without unnecessary friction and by mutual concessions between self-respecting governments.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)