The growth is usually attributed mainly to a rise in the number of refugees from Somalia (43,273), Eritrea (27,855) and Ethiopia (11,505).
[2] Around 30% of all Africans in Norway are of Somali descent,[3] around 20% are Eritreans,[4] and the other 50% (65.850) are from the rest of Africa.
Compared with immigrants from Somalia and Eritrea, the percentage of Africans from other regions of Africa is low.
[2] There is also a sizeable population of Africans from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2,050), and there are also a Moroccan community in Norway.
[5] Immigrants from Africa had a higher crime rate compared to migrants from other parts of the world.