Sources: 10 facts about mobility in the Nordic Region

All figures retrieved 3-4 March 2024, where not otherwise stated.

1. “At the beginning of 2023, approximately 28,000,000 people were living in the Nordic Region.”
Source: Nordic Statistics Database POPU01

2. “At the beginning of 2023, approximately 451,000 people were living in a Nordic country other than the one in which they were born.”
Source: Nordic Statistics Database CITI02

3. “In 2022, approximately 38,000 people relocated from one Nordic country to another.”
Source: Nordic Statistics Database MIGR02

4. “In the decade between 2013 and 2022, approximately 411,000 people relocated from one Nordic country to another.”
Source: Nordic Statistics Database MIGR02

5. “Approximately 44,400 people live in one Nordic country and work in another.”
Source: Nordic Statistics Database COMM10
The figures in the table are from 2015, where not otherwise stated.

	Place of work
Residence	Denmark	Finland	Iceland	Norway	Sweden	Total
Denmark		179	195	2.842 (2018)	2.029 (2017)	5.245
Finland	101		13	1.068 (2018)	1.324 (2017)	2.506
Iceland	56	12		694	88	850
Norway	560 (2018)	184	140		1.244 (2017)	2.128
Sweden	14.275 (2017)	1.854 (2017)	165	17.397		33.691
Total	14.992	2.229	513	22.001	4.685	44.420

6. “Approximately 10,400 students study in one Nordic country with study support from another.”
Source: Nordic Statistics Database EDUC13

7. “Approximately 5,700 students make use of Erasmus + or Nordplus between the Nordic countries.”
Sources: Erasmus+ annual report 2022, Statistical annex. (table: Mobility for students and staff in 2022) and Nordplus

8. “Approximately 179,000 receive a pension from another Nordic country, because they have lived or worked there at some point in their lives.”

Sources:

Denmark: Figures sent 11/3 2024 by ATP (2022)
Finland: Pensionsskyddcentralen (2022)
Iceland: Figures sent 14/2 2023 byTryggingastofnun (2022)
Norway: NAV (2022)
Sweden: Swedish Pensions Agency (2022)

	Pensions paid to pensioners in
Pension from	Denmark	Finland	Faroe Islands	Iceland	Norway	Sweden	Total
Denmark		660		728	7.955	13.336	22.679
Finland	477			28	1.124	30.125	31.754
Iceland	704	19	46		571	576	1.916
Norway	8.992	3.503	244	884		30.680	44.303
Sweden	7.506	57.335	34	1.154	12.045		78.094
Total	17.679	61.502	324	2.693	21.138	74.431	178.746

9. “In 2022, approximately 10,800 Nordic citizens were granted citizenship in another Nordic country.”
Sources:

Denmark: Statistics Denmark table DKSTAT
Finland: Statistics Finland
Iceland: Statistics Iceland
Norway: Statistics Norway

Sweden: Statistics Sweden SCB

	Original citizenship
New citizenship	Denmark	Finland	Iceland	Norway	Sweden	Total
Denmark		35	126	121	213	495
Finland	4		5	18	199	226
Iceland	22	5		10	15	52
Norway	945	512	483		3.657	5.597
Sweden	1.318	1.429	207	1.441		4.395
Total	2.289	1.981	821	1.590	4.084	10.765

10. “Info Norden’s 400 articles, which can be read in six languages, were visited 2.0 million times in 2023, and during the year Info Norden responded to 4,614 inquiries, 152 of which represented possible obstacles to freedom of movement.”

Source: Appendix: Web page visits, inquiries and information activities