Nordic migration to North America

During the 19th and early 20th century, three million people from the Nordic countries emigrated to the United States and Canada.

Sweden was the largest country of origin with 1.2 million emigrants. Norway had the largest emigration per capita, as 850,000 Norwegians left a country of just above 2 million. Many parishes in Sweden and Norway saw more than half their population leave overseas.

19th-century Denmark was not hit by famine as hard as other Nordic countries, and received Nordic immigration. Still, around 300,000 Danes left for the New World, and made their mark on the new country, in particular in Utah and the Great Plains.