Migration, overseas, by nationality

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Last update: 2025-04-08

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 2024 by country of citizenship.

Immigrants				Emigrants
Country of citizenship	Norrbotten County		Sweden	Country of citizenship	Norrbotten County		Sweden
Country of citizenship	Number	Per cent	Per cent	Country of citizenship	Number	Per cent	Per cent
Europe (excl EU, Scandinavia)	897	32,4	30,7	Sweden	456	37,9	45,7
Ukraine	776	28,0	25,7	Asia	274	22,8	1,7
Asia	482	17,4	21,4	Finland	121	10,1	1,5
Africa	264	9,5	5,1	Europe (excl EU, Scandinavia)	65	5,4	0,4
Sweden	263	9,5	16,3	Ukraine	3	0,2	1,3
Finland	179	6,5	1,4	China	49	4,1	1,1
Germany	98	3,5	3,1	India	43	3,6	0,8
India	80	2,9	4,9	Africa	41	3,4	3,2
Poland	72	2,6	2,5	Germany	31	2,6	1,4
Netherlands	56	2,0	1,6	Poland	26	2,2	2,1
South America	44	1,6	1,4	Norway	20	1,7	5,2
Syria	43	1,6	1,8	Syria	18	1	0,5
North America	37	1,3	1,8	Italy	16	1,3	3,5
Norway	29	1,0	1,2	South America	16	1,3	2,0
Romania	28	1,0	1,5	North America	15	1,2	1,6
China	23	0,8	2,9	Pakistan	14	1,2	19,7
Italy	22	0,8	1,4	Netherlands	9	0,7	5,0
Pakistan	17	0,6	2,0	Romania	7	0,6	3,0
Denmark	5	0,2	1,5	Denmark	5	0,4	1,3
Oceania	4	0,1	0,2	Oceania	3	0,2	1,1
Iceland	1	0,0	0,4	Iceland	0	0,0	0,5
Stateless	7	0,3	0,3	Stateless	1	0,1	0,3
Unknown	8	0,3	0,1	Unknown	2	0,2	0,4
Total	2 769	100,0	100,0	Total	1 203	100,0	100,0
Source: Statistics Sweden				Source: Statistics Sweden