Total population | |
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33,924 (2019 Official Norway estimate)[1] 0.64% of the Norwegian population | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Oslo[2] | |
Languages | |
Norwegian and Mesopotamian Arabic also Kurdish (Sorani and Kurmanji dialects), Turkish (Iraqi Turkmen/Turkoman dialects), Neo-Aramaic, (Assyrian and Mandaic) | |
Religion | |
Predominantly Islam (Shia and Sunni) Minority Syriac Christianity and Chaldean Catholicism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Arabs, Armenians, Assyrians, Azeris, Iranians, Kurds, Mizrahim, Turks Some descendants Norwegians |
Iraqis in Norway make up approximately 33,924 people. They are mostly refugees from the Iran–Iraq War, the Saddam regime and in particular the Iraq War. Iraqis are the seventh-largest immigrant group in Norway after Poles, Lithuanians, Swedes, Syrians, Pakistanis and Somalis.