Norway and Sweden are different in a few ways. Norway is a NATO member but not an EU member, meaning it participates in a military alliance while protecting its

Norway and Sweden are different in a few ways. Norway is a NATO member but not an EU member, meaning it participates in a military alliance while protecting its large fishery and insulating its oil economy from the EU. Sweden is the opposite, it's an EU member but not a NATO member, favoring military independence and looser cooperation while being an integral part of the EU. Consequently, Sweden has been historically much more welcoming of immigrants (including, to borrow Canadian terminology, 'visible minorities'), while Norway has been less so. Despite this, since Sweden has almost double the population of Norway, Norway's percentage of immigrants per total residents is actually slightly higher. In Norway's case, oil makes a wealth of difference.