Diaspora
Somalis in Sweden
Population, asylum, naturalization, and reception-system records for the Somali-born community in Sweden, drawn from Statistics Sweden (SCB) micro-data, 1973–2019.
What the data shows
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Somalia-born Population in Sweden
People, by sex · 2000–2019
SCB (Statistics Sweden)
Asylum Applications
Applications, by sex · 2002–2019
SCB (Statistics Sweden)
Naturalizations
Grants of Swedish citizenship, by sex · 2000–2019
SCB (Statistics Sweden)
Migration Agency Intake
Total Migrationsverket reception-system intake · 2002–2019
SCB / Migrationsverket, via Statistics Sweden
Somali Citizens Resident in Sweden
Somali citizenship-holders, by sex · 1973–2019
SCB (Statistics Sweden)
Residents by Years Since Immigration
Somali-born residents, both sexes combined · 2019
SCB (Statistics Sweden)
Reading the arrival-wave chart
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Different context
Somalia's own displaced & refugee population
Note: the two figures below describe people displaced inside Somalia and Somali refugees worldwide (CIA World Factbook, 2024) — they are not part of the Sweden-based diaspora data above, and the two should not be summed or compared directly.
Internally Displaced Persons
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CIA World Factbook, 2024
Refugees (originating from Somalia)
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CIA World Factbook, 2024