![]() By the start of 2022, this had risen to 463,145. In the year 2000, there were 412,786 people with a Norwegian background living in Oslo. Since 2003, the number of people with a Norwegian background living in Oslo has increased every single year. Many people assume immigration is the sole reason, but there are other factors too. Oslo schoolchildren parade on Norwegian National Day. Population growth in OsloĪs the world welcomed in the year 2000, just 507,467 people lived in Oslo. In Vestre Aker, Nordre Aker and Nordstrand the proportion is just over 18%. More than 50% of the residents of Stovner, Søndre Nordstrand and Alna have an immigrant background. People with a foreign background are unevenly distributed across the city. The biggest groups of people with a non-Norwegian background living in the city of Oslo are from Pakistan (22,379), Somalia (17,110), Poland (16,207) and Sweden (11,430). Almost one-quarter of the total number fall into this latter category. It’s important to understand the definition of non-Norwegian background includes both immigrants and Norwegian-born children with immigrant parents. People with a European background make up 37.4% of this immigrant population. People with an immigrant background in OsloĪccording to the City of Oslo, there were 236,682 people with a non-Norwegian background living in Oslo at the start of 2022. Crowds gather in Oslo on 17 May, Norway’s Constitution Day. The busiest districts of Oslo are Grünerløkka (63,891), Gamle Oslo (60,209) and Frogner (59,026). In the wider Oslo urban area as defined by SSB, the number is 1,064,235. That was the number as of Q3 2022 provided by Statistics Norway (SSB). The latest official population figure for the city of Oslo is 707,531. To better understand this astonishing growth, I had to dig into the numbers. The population of Norway has risen in those years too but the growth in Oslo is statling. Twelve years later, I’ve just found out that the population of Oslo has topped 700,000 for the first time. In that first year I spent every spare moment exploring the city of 600,000 people. I had moved from Birmingham in England, a much bigger city. ![]() When I first moved to Oslo in 2011, one of the things I liked most about the city was how small it was for a capital. ![]() Here are the numbers behind the rapid growth. Oslo is one of the fastest growing capital cities in Europe.
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