Migration, overseas, by nationality

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Last update: 2024-03-19

Explanation

To be registered as an immigrant, an individual must intend to stay in Sweden for at least one year. To be registered as an emigrant ,an individual must intend to live abroad for at least one year.
The immigration year is defined as the year in which immigration was registered in the population register kept by the Swedish Tax Administration. The immigration year always refers to the most recent registered immigration.
Re-immigration refers to a return to Sweden after being resident abroad and re-emigration refers to immigration, followed by another departure from Sweden. Reported as immigrant.
Refugees whose applications are still being processed are not included in the statistics, neither as immigrants nor as foreign citizens in the population. Those who are not granted residence permits and who leave the country as a result are also not included among the emigrants.

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Immigrants and emigrants during 2023 by country of citizenship.

Immigrants				Emigrants
Country of citizenship	Halland County		Sweden	Country of citizenship	Halland County		Sweden
Country of citizenship	Number	Per cent	Per cent	Country of citizenship	Number	Per cent	Per cent
Sweden	513	24,1	18,2	Sweden	1 028	61,6	51,1
Africa	171	8,0	6,5	India	84	5,0	4,5
Europe (excl EU, Scandinavia)	156	7,3	7,7	Poland	78	4,7	2,3
Poland	153	7,2	4,8	Europe (excl EU, Scandinavia)	56	3,4	4,0
Syria	147	6,9	2,7	Denmark	27	1,6	2,0
India	137	6,4	7,9	Romania	24	1,4	1,0
Afghanistan	124	5,8	3,3	China	22	1,3	3,8
Romania	47	2,2	2,3	Afghanistan	21	1,3	0,6
Germany	46	2,2	4,0	North America	20	1,2	1,7
Norway	37	1,7	1,5	Africa	18	1,1	3,1
Iran	31	1,5	2,1	Syria	18	1,1	0,7
Netherlands	28	1,3	1,7	Norway	16	1,0	1,5
Denmark	27	1,3	1,9	Pakistan	13	0,8	1,6
South America	26	1,2	1,8	Finland	12	0,7	1,8
North America	25	1,2	2,0	Germany	11	0,7	2,1
Italy	21	1,0	1,9	South America	10	0,6	1,1
Finland	18	0,8	1,7	Iran	10	0,6	0,8
Turkey	16	0,8	1,8	Netherlands	8	0,5	0,8
China	16	0,8	2,8	Italy	4	0,2	1,0
Pakistan	12	0,6	2,5	Turkey	4	0,2	0,8
Iceland	7	0,3	0,5	Iceland	3	0,2	0,4
Oceania	3	0,1	0,3	Oceania	8	0,5	0,3
Stateless	15	0,7	0,4	Stateless	7	0,4	0,2
Unknown	1	0	0	Unknown	10	1	0
Total	2 125	100	100	Total	1 669	100	100
Source: Statistics Sweden				Source: Statistics Sweden