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	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
Africa	273	14,0	6,5	Sweden	407	41,7	51,1
Afghanistan	214	11,0	3,3	Finland	122	12,5	1,8
Sweden	208	10,6	18,2	Europe (excl EU, Scandinavia)	54	5,5	4,0
Europe (excl EU, Scandinavia)	121	6,2	7,7	India	33	3,4	4,5
Finland	114	5,8	1,7	Norway	28	2,9	1,5
Germany	109	5,6	4,0	China	20	2,0	3,8
Poland	93	4,8	4,8	Germany	19	1,9	2,1
India	62	3,2	7,9	Africa	19	1,9	3,1
Syria	49	2,5	2,7	Poland	18	1,8	2,3
Romania	40	2,0	2,3	Afghanistan	16	1,6	0,6
Iran	40	2,0	2,1	Pakistan	15	2	1,6
Netherlands	38	1,9	1,7	Turkey	12	1,2	0,8
China	36	1,8	2,8	South America	12	1,2	1,1
Turkey	30	1,5	1,8	North America	11	1,1	1,7
North America	30	1,5	2,0	Iran	11	1,1	0,8
South America	24	1,2	1,8	Italy	6	0,6	1,0
Italy	22	1,1	1,9	Netherlands	6	0,6	0,8
Pakistan	21	1,1	2,5	Iceland	4	0,4	0,4
Denmark	12	0,6	1,9	Denmark	3	0,3	2,0
Norway	12	0,6	1,5	Romania	3	0,3	1,0
Iceland	4	0,2	0,5	Syria	2	0,2	0,7
Oceania	4	0,2	0,3	Oceania	2	0,2	0,3
Stateless	2	0,1	0,4	Stateless	3	0,3	0,2
Unknown	5	0,3	0,1	Unknown	2	0,2	0,4
Total	1 954	100	100	Total	977	100	100
Source: Statistics Sweden				Source: Statistics Sweden