Editing Norway (section)

=== Migration ===
{{Main|Norwegian diaspora|Immigration to Norway}}
[[File:Percentage of Norwegians born to two Norwegian parents.png|thumb|upright=1.2|Norwegians of two Norwegian parents, either born abroad or in Norway as a percentage proportionally and nationally in Norway as of 2021]]
Particularly in the 19th century, when economic conditions were difficult in Norway, tens of thousands of people migrated to the United States and Canada, where they could work and buy land in frontier areas. Many went to the Midwest and Pacific Northwest. In 2006, according to the US Census Bureau, almost 4.7&nbsp;million persons identified as [[Norwegian Americans]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ADPTable?_bm=y&-qr_name=ACS_2009_1YR_G00_DP2&-geo_id=01000US&-ds_name=ACS_2009_1YR_G00_&-_lang=en&-redoLog=false&-format=|title=American FactFinder – Results|website=factfinder.census.gov|access-date=8 August 2017}} {{Dead link|date=May 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> which was larger than the population of ethnic Norwegians in Norway itself.<ref name="Pop16">{{cite web|url=http://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/nokkeltall/population|title=Population: Key figures for the population|work=ssb.no|access-date=4 September 2016|archive-date=6 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806141407/http://ssb.no/en/befolkning/nokkeltall/population|url-status=dead}}</ref> In the 2021 Canadian census, 466,500 Canadian citizens identified as having [[Norwegian Canadians|Norwegian ancestry]].<ref name="Norwegian Canadians">{{cite web |author=Statistics Canada |author-link=Statistics Canada |date=10 May 2023 |title=Religion by ethnic or cultural origins: Canada, provinces and territories and census metropolitan areas with parts |url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810034101 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224190955/https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/dp-pd/dt-td/Rp-eng.cfm?TABID=2&LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=1118296&GK=0&GRP=0&PID=105396&PRID=0&PTYPE=105277&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2013&THEME=95&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&D1=0&D2=0&D3=0&D4=0&D5=0&D6=0%20 |archive-date=24 December 2018 |access-date=29 March 2025}}</ref>

In 2024, approximately 931,081 individuals (16.8% of the population) of the population of Norway were immigrants. Of these, 386,559 (41.5%) had a [[Western culture|Western]] background (Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand), while 544,521 (58.5%) had a non-Western background (Asia, Africa, South and Central America). 221,459 individuals (4% of the population) were children of immigrants, born in Norway.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Facts about immigration |url=https://www.ssb.no/en/innvandring-og-innvandrere/faktaside/innvandring |access-date=9 October 2024 |website=SSB |language=en}}</ref>

The largest groups of immigrants have come from [[Poland]], [[Lithuania]], [[Sweden]] and [[Syria]], as well as [[Ukraine]] since the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]] in 2022.<ref name=":0" />

Immigrants have settled in all Norwegian municipalities. In 2013, the cities with the highest share of immigrants were [[Oslo]] (32%) and [[Drammen (town)|Drammen]] (27%).<ref name="innvbef">[http://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/statistikker/innvbef Innvandrere og norskfødte med innvandrerforeldre, 25 April 2013] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201123190440/https://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/statistikker/innvbef|date=23 November 2020}} [[Statistics Norway]]. Retrieved 30 December 2013</ref> According to [[Reuters]], Oslo is the "fastest growing city in Europe because of increased immigration".<ref>Hare, Sophie. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120923173213/http://af.reuters.com/article/sudanNews/idAFL6E7IM19S20110722 "Factbox – facts about Norway"], [[Reuters]]. 22 July 2011. Retrieved 22 July 2011.</ref> In recent years, immigration has accounted for most of Norway's population growth.<ref>{{Cite web |date=5 March 2018 |title=14 per cent of population are immigrants |url=https://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/artikler-og-publikasjoner/14-per-cent-of-population-are-immigrants |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221229070247/https://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/artikler-og-publikasjoner/14-per-cent-of-population-are-immigrants |archive-date=29 December 2022 |access-date=29 December 2022 |website=ssb.no |language=en}}</ref>