Norway Yearbook - 2003

390
Population
88 Asylum-seekers1, by citizenship
Citizenship 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
Total 4569 5238 12876 3379 1460 1778 2271 8374 10160 10842 14782 17480
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Europe,total 1721 3599 11523 2164 495 504 715 4716 2711 7114 8405 8532
Albania 7 37 24 5 2 15 21 7 69 88 210 274
Bosnia-Herzegovina. 7051 201 106 73 90 233 161 272 907 810
Bulgaria 79 42 8 2 6 5 9 13 .. 950 359
Estonia 23 20 44 10 6 4 3 .. .. 33 19
Yugoslavia2 1 334 2838 4146 1 547 142 76 343 1 623 1152 4188 928 2460
Croatia . 44 68 78 29 3 55 2415 60 16 139
Poland 120 19 10 72 8 209 19 2 .. .. 39 51
Romania 54 59 74 46 10 8 19 76 153 712 203 247
Russian Federation. . 32 37 75 69 50 39 131 318 471 1 318 1 718
USSR 71 44 2 - - 1 . . 1
Turkey 46 32 30 30 35 24 44 129 279 164 204 257
Rest of Europe 1344 2877 4199 1611 220 111 71 84 519 1203 2397 2197
Africa, total 1 328 717 464 526 407 466 752 1 229 1 779 1 335 2069 3468
Algeria 24 18 17 36 43 26 22 39 66 72 346 468
Ethiopia 260 42 29 7 18 30 48 79 126 96 173 325
Ghana 6 3 11 5 11 5 1 .. 2 5
Kenya 19 13 5 19 12 42 6 4 8 8
Libya 9 5 3 2 4 8 3 3 62 123
Morocco 42 10 8 6 1 4 11 4 19 16
Nigeria 10 5 11 10 5 4 4 6 27 139
Sierra Leone 4 13 8 58 2 - 11 11 .. .. 16 14
Somalia 731 444 259 251 189 180 552 938 1 340 910 1 080 1 534
Sudan 34 29 40 15 23 32 34 44 59 31 47 94
Togo 5 17 7 16 2 - - - .. 21
Tunisia 18 4 1 2 2 3 3 4 6 9
Uganda 70 33 12 13 30 25 4 3 .. 11 7
Zaire 24 32 6 16 11 7 7 5 ..
Rest of Africa 72 49 47 70 54 100 47 88 188 226 272 705
Asia, total 1 266 822 731 632 464 733 736 2 138 5478 2 253 4082 5022
Afghanistan 13 21 25 9 10 3 16 45 172 326 603 786
Bangladesh 12 2 4 10 8 8 11 9 .. .. 22 43
India 30 13 22 20 4 9 4 10 .. .. 17 31
Iraq 131 111 137 126 99 113 272 1296 4073 766 1056 1624
Iran 244 130 147 160 163 120 138 264 350 327 412 450
China 8 25 15 2 5 3 8 10 .. .. 19 87
Lebanon 179 65 40 9 18 6 17 28 49 .. 34 67
Pakistan 14 17 23 26 31 16 26 140 265 220 186 216
Sri Lanka 556 403 255 233 90 413 196 173 112 165 164 87
Syria 25 15 13 14 14 16 23 72 95 60 57 80
Rest of Asia 54 20 50 23 22 26 25 91 362 389 1 512 1 551
North and Central
America, total 21 4 12 12 14 4 3 2 .. 5 4
. South America, total . 32 47 26 18 21 52 23 204 24 61
Chile - 2 2 3 2 4 2 7 7
Peru 22 32 13 13 17 33 2 2 4 1
Rest of South
America 10 13 11 2 4 17 17 200 13 53
Oceania - - 4 i 2
Stateless 201 49 120 27 59 19 42 85 164 120 194 391
1Some asylum-seekers may already be resident in Norway with another type of residence permit. 2The figure for 2000 includes asylum applications
for 3 011 persons who previously had temporary collective protection.
Source: Refugees, Statistics Norway and Directorate of Immigration. More information: http:/tw.udi.no/
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