Statistics Norway

Employment among immigrants (register based)

9 Employed first generation immigrants by selcted countries of birth and sex. Absolute figures and in per cent of persons aged 15-74 years within each group Q4 2007.
  Total Males Females Total Per cent Difference in percentage
points in men's favour
Relative difference
in men's favour
  Males Females
Employed in total 2 484 000 1 313 020    1 170 980    71.6 74.8 68.4 6.4 9.4
Employed first generation immigrants, total  213 114  118 776 94 338 63.3 69.2 57.3 11.9 20.8
Thereof                
Afghanistan 2 716 2 056  660 51.2 65.1 30.8 34.3  111.4
Bosnia-Herzegovina 7 936 4 028 3 908 65.1 66.6 63.6 3.0 4.7
Chile 3 972 2 229 1 743 71.1 74.4 67.2 7.2 10.7
Denmark 10 508 5 816 4 692 69.8 74.2 65.0 9.2 14.2
The Philippines 5 725 1 114 4 611 63.8 72.1 62.0 10.1 16.3
Finland 3 931 1 553 2 378 70.4 68.7 71.5 -2.8 -3.9
India 3 415 2 007 1 408 63.0 68.9 56.2 12.7 22.6
Iraq 6 860 4 918 1 942 45.6 54.9 32.0 22.9 71.6
Iran 6 828 4 033 2 795 58.3 61.8 54.0 7.8 14.4
China 2 879 1 309 1 570 60.8 64.2 58.2 6.0 10.3
Kosovo 4 343 2 526 1 817 60.1 65.2 54.2 11.0 20.3
Lithuania 3 301 1 932 1 369 76.8 78.4 74.7 3.7 5.0
Marocco 2 128 1 400  728 48.2 54.8 39.1 15.7 40.2
Pakistan 7 274 4 980 2 294 48.0 63.5 31.4 32.1  102.2
Poland 20 860 15 520 5 340 77.4 83.4 64.2 19.2 29.9
Russia 5 798 1 713 4 085 59.2 58.3 59.6 -1.3 -2.2
Somalia 4 529 3 148 1 381 35.5 45.1 23.9 21.2 88.7
Sri Lanka 5 464 3 163 2 301 68.8 76.1 60.8 15.3 25.2
United Kingom 6 893 4 772 2 121 70.3 76.0 60.2 15.8 26.2
Sweden 18 317 9 186 9 131 78.8 80.3 77.4 2.9 3.7
Thailand 5 075  478 4 597 62.0 55.3 62.8 -7.5 -11.9
Tyrkia [Turkey]. 5 163 3 457 1 706 55.1 64.8 42.3 22.5 53.2
Germany 10 453 6 087 4 366 74.2 80.0 67.4 12.6 18.7
USA 3 384 1 733 1 651 62.5 67.4 58.2 9.2 15.8
Vietnam 7 762 3 951 3 811 64.5 68.4 60.9 7.5 12.3

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