Immigration

Öresund Population density (source : http://www.nordregio.se/)

Befolkningstäthet = population density
Kommun = municipality
Invånare/km² = Population/km²
Hela Sverige/Danmark = Whole of Sweden/Denmark

Migration to the Öresund region

 

Surplus of migrants and births in the Öresund region 1998-2008 (source http://www.tendensoresund.org/)

Since the opening of the Öresund Bridge in 2000 and up until 2009, the population in the Öresund region has increased by about 180 000, with 90 000 people on each side of the sound. The total growth of the region is due to 40 000 more births than deaths, mainly on the Danish side. The rest of the growth is due to a surplus of immigrants. In total, a net of 100 000 persons have immigrated from other countries than Denmark and Sweden, while the remaining net of 40 000 have come from both countries, Sweden especially. Finally, 13 000 persons have moved permanently from the Danish side to the Swedish side of Öresund. The population increase in the Öresund region was rather constant with about 15 000 persons per year from the end of the 1990s up until 2005, but the annual increase rose to 34 000 in 2008. While the population increase previously was due to migration from the rest of Denmark and Sweden, the main reason now was a sharp increase in immigration on both the Danish and Swedish sides of the sound. Migration from the rest of Denmark has been very modest and is now decreasing from the rest of Sweden. The birth surplus is increasing especially on the Swedish side of the sound.

Migration flows across Öresund 1998-2009 (source http://www.tendensoresund.org/)

Where do the migration flows come from and where do they go?

Number of moves from Öresund SE to Öresund DK, by migrant's country of birth (source http://www.tendensoresund.org/)

Number of moves from Öresund DK to Öresund SE, by migrant's country of birth (source http://www.tendensoresund.org/)

A large part of the migration flow across Öresund is concentrated to the two large cities of Copenhagen and Malmö. Of the approximately 3 200 moves in 2009 (preliminary figures) that were made from Öresund DK to Öresund SE, 44 percent alone were from the municipality of Copenhagen. That percentage has only increased slightly. In relation to the total migration from Copenhagen, moves from Öresund SE only amounted to a modest 3 percent in 2008. The migration flow to Öresund SE has been especially marked by many first time movers across Öresund, and those movers have come mainly to Malmö. Before the Öresund Bridge opened, only 40 percent of the movers from Öresund DK to Öresund SE settled in Malmö, but in recent years over 60 percent of the movers chose Malmö. In relation to the total migration to Malmö from the rest of the Öresund region and Sweden, migration from Öresund DK accounted for all of 9 percent in 2008. The migration flow from Öresund SE to Öresund DK has increased later and more slowly, and is expected to reach 2 800 in 2009. A sharp rise in numbers of those moving back to Öresund DK is thus going on now, since more than half of the movers were born in Denmark. Among the movers returning are also a number of Danish people’s children who were born in Öresund SE. Even this migration flow is highly concentrated to Malmö and Copenhagen. Among those moving from Öresund SE to Öresund DK, 63 percent are from Malmö. Of those movers from Öresund SE to Öresund DK, 41 percent settle in Copenhagen. Consequently, part of the migration flow returns to Copenhagen. When looking at the result of the migration flow across Öresund for the two metropolitan municipalities, Malmö has received a net of nearly 9 000 migrants from Öresund DK from 2001 to 2009, while the net during the same period is more than 5 000 persons who have moved from Copenhagen to Öresund SE. Partly due to the Danish rules for immigration of relatives that were introduced in 2002, the number of emigrants from nonwestern countries from Denmark to Sweden has increased. In 2001 persons born in Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa comprised 3 percent of all who moved from Öresund DK to Öresund SE, but since 2003 this figure has been about 10 percent.



Variation de la population en pourcentage, pronostic pour 2019 (source : www.skane.se)