A particularly interesting feature of immigration to Norway is how European the immigrant population tends to be. Of the 1,152,540 immigrants and their descendants present in Norway some 54.5% are European while 45.5%, or 524,229 individuals, are non-Western. This stands in sharp contrast to neighboring Sweden where immigrant groups originating from Asia (including the Middle East) and Africa far outnumber Western immigrant groups from Europe and North America.
Regardless of race, Norwegians are a rapidly declining majority in their own nation-state. In 1990 Norwegians born to Norwegian parents (ethnic Norwegians) were 93.23% of Norway’s population. As of 2021 the Norwegian share of the country’s population has fallen dramatically to just 75.49% and continues to decline. In fact, parts of Norway’s capital are already minority Norwegian, particularly in the Eastern sections of Oslo.
Immigrants now account for more than half of Norway’s population growth and ethnic Norwegians are projected to become a minority in their own country within the century.
This process, like in most Western societies and countries, is promoted by the Norwegian state and business community. The Confederation of Norwegian Enterprises (NHO) encourages its members to hire immigrants rather than native Norwegians while the Norwegian state has written policy papers wherein it considers Norway to have become a multicultural society that must be run along such lines.
However, demographic change brings about more serious consequences than a lack of employment opportunities for native Norwegians. In 2016 the Norwegian state discovered that nearly a million identity documents had been issued without proper checks, largely by non-Norwegians to other immigrants, which enabled these persons to collect millions in fraudulent social welfare benefits. The Norwegian government has also reported that the crime rate among children born to immigrant parents is 2.5 times higher than the crime rate for native Norwegians. Among other immigrant groups, the crime rate is even higher with the crime rate of Africans being 3.425 times higher when compared to native Norwegians. The crime rate for Asians (which includes the Middle East and Turkey) is 2.6 times higher when compared to native Norwegians.
Immigrants and their descendants in the country also commit the majority of spousal murder and 47% of all reported child abuse cases are immigrant-related.
These immigrants also cost Norwegian taxpayers, dearly. Each non-Western immigrant to the country will, over their lifetime, cost the Norwegian taxpayer some 4.1 million Norwegian crowns or $371,700 US dollars. This is sharply contrasted to educated immigrants from Western countries who are net contributors to the Norwegian system over the course of their lifetime.
