Migration overseas

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Last update: 2025-02-21

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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Overseas migration, immigrants and emigrants by gender in 2024. Norrbotten County
	Women	Men	Total
Immigrants	1 379	1 390	2 769
Emigrants	484	719	1 203
Net migration	895	671	1 566
Source: Statistics Sweden

Overseas migration, immigrants and emigrants by gender in 1994-2024

Year	Norrbotten County
	Immigrants		Emigrants		Net migration
	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men	Total
1994	1 476	1 488	292	328	1 184	1 160	2 344
1995	459	425	308	336	151	89	240
1996	411	339	357	360	54	-21	33
1997	479	508	397	467	82	41	123
1998	558	565	355	375	203	190	393
1999	541	455	334	369	207	86	293
2000	597	560	299	336	298	224	522
2001	600	528	344	346	256	182	438
2002	741	775	365	429	376	346	722
2003	769	770	322	392	447	378	825
2004	805	766	347	387	458	379	837
2005	731	759	374	439	357	320	677
2006	1 074	1 249	302	391	772	858	1 630
2007	1 016	1 202	417	542	599	660	1 259
2008	967	984	425	496	542	488	1 030
2009	882	977	391	448	491	529	1 020
2010	1 202	1 254	375	430	827	824	1 651
2011	1 154	1 158	430	560	724	598	1 322
2012	1 225	1 280	367	431	858	849	1 707
2013	1 221	1 370	358	410	863	960	1 823
2014	1 199	1 492	328	386	871	1 106	1 977
2015	1 321	1 497	405	533	916	964	1 880
2016	1 630	2 088	316	373	1 314	1 715	3 029
2017	1 741	2 431	334	377	1 407	2 054	3 461
2018	1 281	1 638	306	382	975	1 256	2 231
2019	976	1 188	303	370	673	818	1 491
2020	717	831	314	365	403	466	869
2021	819	868	314	364	505	504	1 009
2022	910	1 042	314	365	596	677	1 273
2023	963	991	434	543	529	448	977
2024	1 379	1 390	484	719	895	671	1 566
Source: Statistics Sweden