page_title: Immigration by country
section_title: Norway
hierarchical_section_title: Immigration by country / By country / Europe / Norway
caption_attribution_description: English: Inside the Central Jamaat-e Ahl-e Sunnat Norway mosque in Oslo.
context_section_description: Pr. 1 January 2012 registered immigrants in Norway numbered 547,000, making up about 11% of the total population. Many are fairly recent immigrants as immigration has gradually increased  in Norway and per 2012 is very high, both historically and compared to other countries. Net immigration in 2011 was 47,032, a national record high. The immigrants come from 219 different countries. If children of two immigrants are included the immigrant population make up 655,170. The largest groups come from Poland (72,103), Sweden (36,578), Pakistan (32,737), Somalia (29,395) Iraq (28,935), Germany (25,683), Lithuania (23,941) and Vietnam (20,871) (numbers per 2012, include immigrants and children of two immigrants).  Children of Pakistani, Somali and Vietnamese parents made up the largest groups of all Norwegians born to immigrant parents. The European and Pakistani immigrants are mainly labor immigrants while many other immigrants from outside Europe have come as asylum seekers or family members to such.
caption: Immigration to Norway has increased the amount of religious minorities, such as these Muslims in Oslo
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