Net migration in the Nordic countries 2000-2022

Over the past 20 years Sweden constantly had the highest positive net migration of the five Nordic countries, except for 2011 and 2022, when Denmark and Norway had the highest net migration of the five. Especially in 2016, when Sweden accepted a high number of the refugees that came to Europe that year, its net migration was far higher than in the other four Nordic countries. The increase of the net migration in 2022 is partly explained by refugees fleeing the Russia-Ukraine war. Iceland, which had the lowest net migration of the countries, even had a few years of a negative net migration following the financial crisis in 2008/2009, which hit the country's economy hard.