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21 June, 2017

Major immigration flows to the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland 2010-2016

Average annual flows above 1000 people by country of origin

Migration flows by country of origin are of growing interest in the Nordic Region due to the recent unprecedented inflows of migrants. There are also interesting differences between the Nordic countries with respect to the dominant countries of origin of migrants and the size of inflows.

The Faroe Islands and Greenland each had one average annual inflow greater than 1000 people during the measured period, in both cases from Denmark (around 2000 to Greenland and around 1000 to the Faroe Islands). Iceland had average annual inflows just above 1000 people from two countries, Denmark and Poland.

Map Facts

This map shows the largest immigration inflows by country of origin to the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland, specifically inflows which exceed an annual average of 1000 people from a single country of origin during the period 2010-2016.

The size of the arrows equates to the size of the flow of migrants from the country of origin to the Faroe Islands, Greenland or Iceland. The colour of the arrows represents the Nordic destination country. Orange arrows show the major immigrant flow to Greenland; brown to the Faroe Islands; and dark blue to Iceland. Only average annual flows greater than 1000 people are included in the map. Nordic countries are shown as dark grey, while all other countries of origin are shown in light grey.

Map id: 02248d

Designer/Cartographer
Linus Rispling

Data source
NSI, Nordic Statistics

Published 21 June 2017

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