Migration, overseas, by nationality

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Last update: 2026-04-16

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 2025 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	591	31,8	23,2	Sweden	960	62,0	49,8
Ukraine	194	10,4	7,7	Poland	75	4,8	4,0
Africa	133	7,2	6,0	Denmark	28	1,8	2,0
India	114	6,1	5,5	Romania	28	1,8	2,0
Poland	84	4,5	2,4	Africa	24	1,5	3,0
Germany	53	2,8	3,9	Finland	21	1,4	1,6
Pakistan	52	2,8	3,6	Norway	19	1,2	1,4
Romania	40	2,2	1,9	India	19	1,2	3,5
North America	38	2,0	2,4	South America	18	1,2	1,1
Denmark	31	1,7	1,9	Germany	17	1,1	2,7
Netherlands	31	1,7	2,4	Iceland	16	1,0	0,4
Afghanistan	30	1,6	1,9	Ukraine	15	1,0	0,7
Norway	28	1,5	1,5	France	8	0,5	1,2
Finland	26	1,4	1,9	Italy	8	0,5	1,4
South America	16	0,9	1,6	Soain	8	0,5	1,3
Italy	12	0,6	1,8	Afghanistan	8	0,5	0,7
Spain	10	0,5	1,5	North America	7	0,5	1,3
France	8	0,4	1,5	Pakistan	7	0,5	1,1
Iceland	6	0,3	0,5	Netherlands	4	0,3	1,0
Oceania	3	0,2	0,3	China	3	0,2	1,5
China	0	0,0	2,9	Oceania	3	0,2	0,2
Stateless	7	0,4	0,3	Stateless	5	0,3	0,2
Unknown	0	0,0	0,1	Unknown	4	0,3	0,3
Total	1 860	100	100	Total	1 549	100	100
Source: Statistics Sweden				Source: Statistics Sweden