Sweden recently made the headlines in India after new statistics, first reported by The Local, showed that for the first time since records began, more Indians were leaving the country than moving there, with Indians the largest group of emigrated foreigners in the first half of the year.
Norway has been seeing a similar pattern, with the number of Indian citizens arriving in the country on the decline since the summer of 2022, at the same time as the number of Indian citizens leaving has been creeping up steadily, with Norway on track to see a net loss of Indian citizens as early as next year.
This is hardly surprising as both the Swedish krona and the Norwegian krone have both been under pressure, making local salaries look less attractive than what is on offer for programmers in Germany, the US, and even now back home in India.
Unlike in Sweden, Norway has experienced net migration of Indians before, most notably during the Covid-19 pandemic, when the number of Indian citizens leaving the country exceeded new arrivals in the first six months of 2020 and again in the first three months of 2021.
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