The number of ethnic Norwegians has dropped over the past
decade, with Norway's population growth attributable solely to
immigration and children born to Norwegians with an immigrant
background, according to figures from Statistics Norway.
"The group without any element of immigration, either from their
parents of grandparents, has declined in recent years," Minja Dzmarija, a
researcher at Statistics Norway, told Aftenposten. "This means that
among ethnic Norwegians there are more who die or move abroad than those
who are born or move back to Norway."
According to her article in Samfunnsspeilet, Statistics's Norway's
in-house magazine, the number of ethnic Norwegians has declined by 4,400
people over the past nine years, while the total population has grown
from 4.6 million to 5.1 million people.
The proportion of immigrants in the country has increased from 15 percent in 2004 to 23 percent today.
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