Refugees in Norway
3,080 asylum applications by refugees were received in 2016 in Norway - according to UNHCR. Most of them came from Eritrea, Syria and from Afghanistan. A total of 17,149 decisions have been made on initial applications. Which were around 67% answered positively. 33 percent of asylum applications have been rejected in the first instance. Most successful have been the applications of refugees from China and from Yemen.In a second table below you find the refugees, who fled from Norway and made their asylum application in other countries.
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Development of incoming asylum applications [in Country] 2000 to 2016
The top line represents the total number of asylum applications (first applications + reviews). Below there are the number of recognized refugees (green) and the rejected applications (red).Asylum applications of foreign refugees in Norway
The total number of initial and continuing applications refers to the year 2016. Please note that the number of decisions (acceptations or rejections) does not have to sum up with the number of applications, because there may still have been open cases from previous years. Also they dont have to be closed within the same calendar year. In addition, asylum procedures can also be closed, if the applicant disappeared or withdrew the application.New Applications | Reviews | |||||||||
| Origin | applied | accepted | rejected | acceptance rate | applied | accepted | rejected | acceptance rate | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eritrea | 538 | 1,558 | 25 | 98.4 % | 428 | 62 | 335 | 15.6 % | ||
| Syria | 508 | 7,393 | 11 | 99.9 % | 532 | 12 | 321 | 3.6 % | ||
| Afghanistan | 350 | 552 | 2,775 | 16.6 % | 3,307 | 23 | 2,268 | 1.0 % | ||
| Iraq | 199 | 187 | 1,060 | 15.0 % | 1,145 | 13 | 695 | 1.8 % | ||
| stateless | 156 | 528 | 184 | 74.2 % | 247 | 36 | 189 | 16.0 % | ||
| Ethiopia | 149 | 217 | 278 | 43.8 % | 465 | 5 | 249 | 2.0 % | ||
| Somalia | 134 | 61 | 223 | 21.5 % | 450 | 0 | 251 | 0.0 % | ||
| Albania | 127 | 0 | 103 | 0.0 % | 97 | 0 | 92 | 0.0 % | ||
| Iran | 113 | 490 | 269 | 64.6 % | 490 | 18 | 360 | 4.8 % | ||
| Morocco | 85 | 0 | 30 | 0.0 % | 63 | 0 | 49 | 0.0 % | ||
| Turkey | 81 | 5 | 18 | 21.7 % | 49 | 0 | 33 | 0.0 % | ||
| Russia | 59 | 0 | 35 | 0.0 % | 107 | 0 | 60 | 0.0 % | ||
| Serbia | 52 | 0 | 43 | 0.0 % | 52 | 0 | 59 | 0.0 % | ||
| Nigeria | 47 | 0 | 25 | 0.0 % | 96 | 0 | 67 | 0.0 % | ||
| Sudan | 41 | 347 | 67 | 83.8 % | 105 | 0 | 107 | 0.0 % | ||
| Algeria | 40 | 0 | 13 | 0.0 % | 43 | 0 | 42 | 0.0 % | ||
| Pakistan | 33 | 12 | 91 | 11.7 % | 128 | 0 | 103 | 0.0 % | ||
| Macedonia | 27 | 0 | 16 | 0.0 % | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0.0 % | ||
| Libya | 25 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 % | 32 | 0 | 10 | 0.0 % | ||
| China | 23 | 24 | 0 | 100.0 % | 22 | 0 | 17 | 0.0 % | ||
| Ukraine | 23 | 0 | 14 | 0.0 % | 33 | 0 | 28 | 0.0 % | ||
| Azerbaijan | 17 | 5 | 0 | 100.0 % | 30 | 0 | 26 | 0.0 % | ||
| Congo (Dem. Republic) | 17 | 5 | 0 | 100.0 % | 14 | 0 | 12 | 0.0 % | ||
| Lebanon | 17 | 10 | 69 | 12.7 % | 72 | 0 | 57 | 0.0 % | ||
| Gambia | 15 | 0 | 25 | 0.0 % | 33 | 0 | 27 | 0.0 % | ||
| Egypt | 13 | 27 | 127 | 17.5 % | 117 | 0 | 103 | 0.0 % | ||
| Uzbekistan | 13 | 12 | 8 | 60.0 % | 50 | 26 | 48 | 35.1 % | ||
| India | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0.0 % | 25 | 0 | 18 | 0.0 % | ||
| Bangladesh | 10 | 0 | 26 | 0.0 % | 50 | 0 | 40 | 0.0 % | ||
| Saudi Arabia | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Yemen | 10 | 6 | 0 | 100.0 % | 19 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Georgia | 9 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Ghana | 9 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 11 | 0.0 % | |||
| Guinea | 9 | 0 | 12 | 0.0 % | 21 | 0 | 12 | 0.0 % | ||
| Jordan | 9 | 0 | 8 | 0.0 % | 22 | 0 | 26 | 0.0 % | ||
| Colombia | 8 | 0 | 7 | 0.0 % | 7 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Mongolia | 8 | 0 | 9 | 0.0 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Romania | 8 | 0 | 9 | 0.0 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Tunisia | 8 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 % | 13 | 0 | 15 | 0.0 % | ||
| Venezuela | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.0 % | |||
| Angola | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Burundi | 7 | 5 | 0 | 100.0 % | 15 | 0 | 10 | 0.0 % | ||
| Tajikistan | 7 | 0 | 14 | 0.0 % | 15 | 0 | 15 | 0.0 % | ||
| Uganda | 7 | 5 | 6 | 45.5 % | 11 | 0 | 12 | 0.0 % | ||
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 % | 6 | 0 | 8 | 0.0 % | ||
| Sri Lanka | 6 | 0 | 12 | 0.0 % | 23 | 0 | 29 | 0.0 % | ||
| Belarus | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 % | |||
| United Kingdom | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Senegal | 5 | 0 | 18 | 0.0 % | 15 | 0 | 12 | 0.0 % | ||
| Zimbabwe | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Armenia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 0.0 % | |||
| Ivory Coast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 9 | 0.0 % | |||
| Cameroon | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.0 % | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0.0 % | ||
| Kazakhstan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 12 | 0.0 % | |||
| Kenya | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 % | 7 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Kyrgyzstan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 12 | 0.0 % | |||
| Moldova | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 % | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Mali | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 % | |||
| Burma | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.0 % | |||
| Nepal | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 % | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0.0 % | ||
| Rwanda | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Sierra Leone | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 % | |||
| El Salvador | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| South Sudan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Vietnam | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 % | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 % | ||
| unknown | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 10 | 0.0 % | |||
| Zambia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Totals | 3,080 | 11,449 | 5,700 | 66.8 % | 8,609 | 195 | 5,934 | 3.2 % | ||
Asylum applications of refugees from NorwayNorway is one of the countries, were refugees are not only migratiing in. Only in the year 2016 there have been 8 asylum applications, which were received for citizens from Norway in other countries. | ||||||||||
New Applications | Reviews | |||||||||
| Destination | applied | accepted | rejected | acceptance rate | applied | accepted | rejected | acceptance rate | ||
| Canada | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Sweden | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Totals | 8 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | ||||