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Facts and Figures 2016

Immigration Overview - Permanent Residents

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada

Immigration Overview Permanent Residents

Facts and Figures 2016 1

Table of Contents

Foreword ................................................................................................................................................................................ 2

Permanent residents ............................................................................................................................................................. 3

Statistics Canada - Permanent residents by gender and category ........................................................................................................ 4

Canada - Permanent residents by category ........................................................................................................................... 5

Canada - Male permanent residents by category ...................................................................................................... 6

Canada - Female permanent residents by category .................................................................................................. 7

Canada - Permanent residents by category (principal applicant) ........................................................................................... 8

Canada - Permanent residents by category (spouses and dependants) ............................................................................... 9

Canada - Permanent residents less than 15 years of age by gender, age and category..................................................... 10

Canada - Permanent residents by gender and age, 2016 .................................................................................................... 12

Canada - Permanent residents 15 years of age or older by age and category .................................................................... 13

Canada - Male permanent residents 15 years of age or older by age and category............................................... 14

Canada - Female permanent residents 15 years of age or older by age and category .......................................... 15

Canada - Permanent residents by gender and source area ................................................................................................. 16

Canada - Permanent residents by category and source area .............................................................................................. 17

Canada - Permanent residents by age and source area ...................................................................................................... 19

Canada - Permanent residents by source country ................................................................................................................ 21

Canada - Permanent residents by province or territory and urban area............................................................................... 25

Canada - Permanent residents by province or territory and category .................................................................................. 29

Canada - Permanent residents by province or territory and language ability ....................................................................... 31

Canada - Permanent residents by province or territory and source area ............................................................................. 33

Canada - Permanent residents 15 years of age or older by gender and marital status ....................................................... 37

Canada - Permanent residents by category and language ability ........................................................................................ 38

Canada - Permanent residents by top languages reported as mother tongue ..................................................................... 40

Canada - Permanent residents by labour market intention, occupation and skill level ........................................................ 42

Canada - Skilled workers 15 years of age or older intending to work by gender and occupational skill level (principal applicants) ............................................................................................................................................................................. 44

Glossary of terms and concepts ....................................................................................................................................... 45



Foreword

A key mandate of the Research and Evaluation Branch, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is the dissemination of immigration data. With its annual publication, Facts and Figures: Immigration Overview–Permanent Residents, IRCC provides a broad range of statistical information on admissions to Canada. Facts and Figures 2016: Immigration Overview–Permanent Residents presents the annual intake of permanent residents by category of immigration from 2007 to 2016. The report depicts selected characteristics for permanent residents. All statistical information provided in this publication is derived from IRCC’s administrative data files where transactions with the department are recorded. The statistics for admission of permanent residents are provided for the three main categories of immigration—sponsored family class, economic immigrants and refugees—as well as for other immigrants who do not qualify in any of these categories. For information on Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, its priorities and activities, publications and reports, as well as application guides and forms, visit the IRCC Web site at www.cic.gc.ca. The numbers appearing in this report for the period prior to 2016 may differ from those reported in earlier publications. These differences reflect adjustments to IRCC’s administrative data files that normally occur over time.

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Permanent residents

Since 2002, Canada’s immigration program has been based on the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) and its regulations. The IRPA replaces the Immigration Act of 1976 and defines three basic categories of permanent residents, which correspond to major program objectives: reuniting families, contributing to economic development and protecting refugees. Accordingly, statistical information in this section is presented for the main categories of permanent residents and refers to principal applicants and accompanying spouses and dependants (unless otherwise noted). Economic immigrants are people selected for their skills and ability to contribute to Canada’s economy, including skilled workers, business immigrants, provincial and territorial nominees, and caregivers. The skilled worker component includes immigrants who are able to demonstrate their ability to enter the labour market and successfully establish in Canada by meeting selection criteria that assess factors such as English or French language abilities, and work experience. The business immigrant component includes those who invest their money in an approved venture, those who intend to run their own business, or those who intend to be self-employed. The provincial and territorial nominees are permanent residents designated by a province or territory that have entered into agreements with the Government of Canada to select immigrants who will meet their local economic needs. While these nominees must meet federal health and security admission criteria, they are not subject to the skilled worker selection grid for determining eligibility. Caregivers are individuals who are granted permanent residence after providing, in Canada and for a determinate period of time, home child care or care for people with care needs such as the elderly, people with disabilities or people with chronic diseases. The sponsored family class is comprised of foreign nationals sponsored by close relatives or family members in Canada and includes spouses and partners, dependent children, parents and grandparents. Refugees include government-assisted refugees, privately sponsored refugees, blended sponsorship refugees, and protected persons in Canada. On an exceptional basis, the IRPA gives Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada the authority to grant permanent resident status to individuals and families who would not otherwise qualify in any category—for example, in cases where there are strong humanitarian and compassionate considerations, or for public policy reasons. These discretionary provisions provide the flexibility to approve deserving cases not anticipated in the legislation. Selected landing and socio-demographic characteristics are presented for all permanent residents for the 2007 to 2016 calendar years. Statistical tables provide gender-based information on immigrant category, source areas, intended destination in Canada, age at landing, marital status, language ability, occupational skill level and intention to work. Information pertaining to marital status, occupational skill level, and intention to work is presented only for the permanent resident population 15 years of age or older. This age group corresponds to the age requirements for the labour force population as defined in the Census of Population. Supplementary tables for the permanent resident population include statistical information showing the major source countries, the occupation and the skill level. Note: numbers appearing in the “not stated” and “other” categories reflect operational adjustments to IRCC’s administrative data files and are currently under review.



Canada - Permanent residents by gender and category

Number distribution

Category 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Economic 63,401 73,332 75,297 91,975 76,088 78,014 72,601 83,620 83,819 76,159

Sponsored Family 42,837 42,043 41,596 37,763 35,085 39,594 47,726 38,898 37,552 45,357

Resettled Refugee & Protected Person in Canada 13,672 10,860 11,257 12,093 13,909 11,552 11,968 11,896 15,821 28,689

All Other Immigration 2,868 2,405 2,054 1,855 1,859 2,197 1,817 1,825 2,100 1,826

Females 122,778 128,640 130,204 143,686 126,941 131,357 134,112 136,239 139,292 152,031

Economic 67,863 75,764 78,216 94,963 80,010 82,728 75,649 81,577 86,548 79,838




Males 113,972 118,600 121,965 136,999 121,756 126,400 124,913 124,052 132,405 144,302

Economic 131,264 149,096 153,513 186,938 156,098 160,742 148,250 165,197 170,367 155,997




Gender not stated 1 2 1 3 4 4 7 2 119 13

Total 236,751 247,242 252,170 280,688 248,701 257,761 259,032 260,293 271,816 296,346

Percentage distribution

Category 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Economic 51.6 57.0 57.8 64.0 59.9 59.4 54.1 61.4 60.2 50.1

Sponsored Family 34.9 32.7 31.9 26.3 27.6 30.1 35.6 28.6 27.0 29.8

Resettled Refugee & Protected Person in Canada 11.1 8.4 8.6 8.4 11.0 8.8 8.9 8.7 11.4 18.9

All Other Immigration 2.3 1.9 1.6 1.3 1.5 1.7 1.4 1.3 1.5 1.2

Females 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 59.5 63.9 64.1 69.3 65.7 65.4 60.6 65.8 65.4 55.3




Males 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 55.4 60.3 60.9 66.6 62.8 62.4 57.2 63.5 62.7 52.6




Gender not stated 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0



Canada - Permanent residents by category

Number distribution

Category 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Canadian Experience 0 0 2,545 3,918 6,026 9,356 7,209 23,782 20,060 17,822

Caregiver 6,118 10,511 12,458 13,912 11,248 9,013 8,799 17,690 27,214 18,468

Skilled Trade 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 139 1,972 2,428

Skilled Worker 97,870 103,763 95,972 119,377 88,769 91,417 83,229 67,600 70,136 65,606

Entrepreneur 2,157 1,701 1,313 1,086 705 475 426 499 259 146

Investor 7,446 10,202 10,304 11,717 10,587 9,361 8,407 7,452 5,460 4,565

Self-Employed 580 505 542 500 349 242 265 399 677 685

Start-up Business 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 62 105

Provincial Nominee Program 17,093 22,416 30,380 36,428 38,415 40,880 39,900 47,628 44,535 46,175

Economic 131,264 149,098 153,514 186,938 156,099 160,744 148,252 165,198 170,375 156,000

Sponsored Spouse or Partner 45,739 45,035 44,746 41,263 39,059 40,030 45,630 45,067 46,353 56,762

Sponsored Children 5,050 4,463 3,843 3,772 3,432 3,152 3,108 3,561 3,313 3,826

Sponsored Parent or Grandparent 15,823 16,608 17,181 15,334 14,090 21,810 32,320 18,201 15,489 17,041

Sponsored Extended Family Member 467 311 286 363 400 508 319 285 329 375

Sponsored Family Member - H&C Consideration 5,060 5,477 5,926 4,821 4,354 4,368 1,998 534 0 0


Government-Assisted Refugee 7,571 7,295 7,425 7,266 7,363 5,425 5,722 7,625 9,488 23,624

Privately Sponsored Refugee 3,587 3,512 5,036 4,832 5,584 4,228 6,332 5,071 9,747 18,645

Blended Sponsorship Refugee 0 0 0 0 0 0 155 177 811 4,434

Protected Person in Canada 16,805 11,053 10,390 12,601 14,929 13,442 11,930 11,197 12,067 12,209


Humanitarian & Compassionate 5,266 4,274 3,714 3,359 3,101 3,445 3,193 3,333 3,799 3,391

Public Policy 7 2 1 30 199 541 29 15 0 0

Other Immigrants not included elsew here 112 114 108 109 91 68 44 29 45 39


Total 236,751 247,242 252,170 280,688 248,701 257,761 259,032 260,293 271,816 296,346


Category 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Canadian Experience 0.0 0.0 1.0 1.4 2.4 3.6 2.8 9.1 7.4 6.0

Caregiver 2.6 4.3 4.9 5.0 4.5 3.5 3.4 6.8 10.0 6.2

Skilled Trade 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.7 0.8

Skilled Worker 41.3 42.0 38.1 42.5 35.7 35.5 32.1 26.0 25.8 22.1

Entrepreneur 0.9 0.7 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.0

Investor 3.1 4.1 4.1 4.2 4.3 3.6 3.2 2.9 2.0 1.5

Self-Employed 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2

Start-up Business 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Provincial Nominee Program 7.2 9.1 12.0 13.0 15.4 15.9 15.4 18.3 16.4 15.6

Economic 55.4 60.3 60.9 66.6 62.8 62.4 57.2 63.5 62.7 52.6

Sponsored Spouse or Partner 19.3 18.2 17.7 14.7 15.7 15.5 17.6 17.3 17.1 19.2

Sponsored Children 2.1 1.8 1.5 1.3 1.4 1.2 1.2 1.4 1.2 1.3

Sponsored Parent or Grandparent 6.7 6.7 6.8 5.5 5.7 8.5 12.5 7.0 5.7 5.8

Sponsored Extended Family Member 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Sponsored Family Member - H&C Consideration 2.1 2.2 2.4 1.7 1.8 1.7 0.8 0.2 0.0 0.0


Government-Assisted Refugee 3.2 3.0 2.9 2.6 3.0 2.1 2.2 2.9 3.5 8.0

Privately Sponsored Refugee 1.5 1.4 2.0 1.7 2.2 1.6 2.4 1.9 3.6 6.3

Blended Sponsorship Refugee 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.3 1.5

Protected Person in Canada 7.1 4.5 4.1 4.5 6.0 5.2 4.6 4.3 4.4 4.1


Humanitarian & Compassionate 2.2 1.7 1.5 1.2 1.2 1.3 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.1

Public Policy 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Other Immigrants not included elsew here 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0


Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0



Canada - Male permanent residents by category

Number distribution

Category 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016


Caregiver 1,957 3,289 4,417 4,613 4,437 3,706 2,771 4,573 11,017 7,942

Skilled Trade 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 80 1,186 1,337

Skilled Worker 51,675 54,321 50,282 62,604 46,471 47,741 43,330 35,043 36,811 33,952

Entrepreneur 1,133 905 674 568 340 270 221 259 145 74

Investor 3,846 5,232 5,316 6,035 5,424 4,778 4,288 3,846 2,819 2,334

Self-Employed 307 260 274 263 180 130 128 201 347 352



Economic 67,863 75,764 78,216 94,963 80,010 82,728 75,649 81,577 86,548 79,838













Public Policy 6 1 1 25 121 319 17 7 0 0



Males 113,972 118,600 121,965 136,999 121,756 126,400 124,913 124,052 132,405 144,302


Category 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016


Caregiver 1.7 2.8 3.6 3.4 3.6 2.9 2.2 3.7 8.3 5.5

Skilled Trade 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.9 0.9

Skilled Worker 45.3 45.8 41.2 45.7 38.2 37.8 34.7 28.2 27.8 23.5

Entrepreneur 1.0 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1

Investor 3.4 4.4 4.4 4.4 4.5 3.8 3.4 3.1 2.1 1.6

Self-Employed 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.2



Economic 59.5 63.9 64.1 69.3 65.7 65.4 60.6 65.8 65.4 55.3













Public Policy 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0



Males 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0



Canada - Female permanent residents by category

Number distribution

Category 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016


Caregiver 4,161 7,222 8,041 9,299 6,811 5,307 6,028 13,117 16,196 10,525

Skilled Trade 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 59 786 1,091

Skilled Worker 46,195 49,441 45,689 56,773 42,297 43,675 39,898 32,556 33,324 31,652

Entrepreneur 1,024 795 639 518 365 205 205 240 114 72

Investor 3,600 4,970 4,988 5,682 5,163 4,583 4,119 3,606 2,640 2,231

Self-Employed 273 245 268 237 169 112 137 198 330 333



Economic 63,401 73,332 75,297 91,975 76,088 78,014 72,601 83,620 83,819 76,159





Sponsored Family Member - H&C Consideration 2,556 2,685 2,924 2,184 2,077 1,855 794 205 0 0








Public Policy 1 1 0 5 78 222 12 8 0 0



Females 122,778 128,640 130,204 143,686 126,941 131,357 134,112 136,239 139,292 152,031


Category 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016


Caregiver 3.4 5.6 6.2 6.5 5.4 4.0 4.5 9.6 11.6 6.9

Skilled Trade 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.6 0.7

Skilled Worker 37.6 38.4 35.1 39.5 33.3 33.2 29.7 23.9 23.9 20.8

Entrepreneur 0.8 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.0

Investor 2.9 3.9 3.8 4.0 4.1 3.5 3.1 2.6 1.9 1.5

Self-Employed 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2



Economic 51.6 57.0 57.8 64.0 59.9 59.4 54.1 61.4 60.2 50.1













Public Policy 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0



Females 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0



Canada - Permanent residents by category (principal applicant)

Number distribution

Category 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016


Caregiver 3,434 6,163 6,281 7,666 5,039 3,688 4,860 11,692 11,179 6,836

Skilled Trade 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 63 971 921

Skilled Worker 41,238 43,349 40,708 48,795 36,762 38,571 34,191 28,839 30,430 30,093

Entrepreneur 579 445 370 291 184 126 114 131 74 38

Investor 2,006 2,817 2,857 3,210 2,973 2,607 2,355 2,078 1,547 1,296

Self-Employed 203 164 182 174 113 89 95 159 260 267



Economic 53,784 61,263 63,964 76,508 64,310 68,188 64,764 78,140 76,666 69,711













Public Policy 7 2 1 20 80 223 14 8 0 0



Total 130,414 133,833 136,679 144,935 131,194 138,120 144,029 147,267 146,795 159,055


Category 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016


Caregiver 2.6 4.6 4.6 5.3 3.8 2.7 3.4 7.9 7.6 4.3

Skilled Trade 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.7 0.6

Skilled Worker 31.6 32.4 29.8 33.7 28.0 27.9 23.7 19.6 20.7 18.9

Entrepreneur 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0

Investor 1.5 2.1 2.1 2.2 2.3 1.9 1.6 1.4 1.1 0.8

Self-Employed 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2



Economic 41.2 45.8 46.8 52.8 49.0 49.4 45.0 53.1 52.2 43.8













Public Policy 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0



Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0



Canada - Permanent residents by category (spouses and dependants)

Number distribution

Category 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Canadian Experience 0 0 771 1,385 2,064 3,422 2,853 9,595 8,807 8,096

Caregiver 2,684 4,348 6,177 6,246 6,209 5,325 3,939 5,998 16,035 11,632

Skilled Trade 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 76 1,001 1,507

Skilled Worker 56,632 60,414 55,264 70,582 52,007 52,846 49,038 38,760 39,706 35,513

Entrepreneur 1,578 1,256 943 795 521 349 312 368 185 108

Investor 5,440 7,385 7,447 8,507 7,614 6,754 6,052 5,374 3,913 3,269

Self-Employed 377 341 360 326 236 153 170 240 417 418



Economic 77,480 87,835 89,550 110,430 91,789 92,556 83,488 87,057 93,709 86,289


Sponsored Children 128 152 110 87 63 50 45 41 15 19



Sponsored Family Member - H&C Consideration 331 333 399 381 315 287 173 45 0 0








Public Policy 0 0 0 10 119 318 15 7 0 0



Total 106,337 113,409 115,491 135,753 117,507 119,641 115,003 113,025 125,021 137,291


Category 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016


Caregiver 2.5 3.8 5.3 4.6 5.3 4.5 3.4 5.3 12.8 8.5

Skilled Trade 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.8 1.1

Skilled Worker 53.3 53.3 47.9 52.0 44.3 44.2 42.6 34.3 31.8 25.9

Entrepreneur 1.5 1.1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.1

Investor 5.1 6.5 6.4 6.3 6.5 5.6 5.3 4.8 3.1 2.4

Self-Employed 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.3



Economic 72.9 77.4 77.5 81.3 78.1 77.4 72.6 77.0 75.0 62.9













Public Policy 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0



Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0



Canada - Permanent residents less than 15 years of age by gender, age and category

Number distribution

Category 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Economic 5,138 5,783 5,709 7,793 6,600 6,655 5,907 5,740 6,035 6,074


Resettled Refugee & Protected Person in Canada 804 706 685 749 824 659 607 709 1,242 3,492

All Other Immigration 62 85 47 28 43 125 47 71 21 15

0 to 4 years old 7,936 8,031 7,767 9,773 8,580 8,541 7,862 7,788 8,591 11,107

Economic 5,537 6,243 6,505 8,344 6,798 6,921 6,531 6,637 6,924 6,536

Sponsored Family 854 762 720 703 687 620 705 725 773 959



5 to 9 years old 7,877 8,220 8,365 10,227 8,862 8,811 8,472 8,559 9,522 11,891

Economic 4,883 5,581 5,848 6,942 5,674 5,603 4,978 5,093 5,590 4,959

Sponsored Family 1,112 1,040 976 893 862 839 822 775 866 1,021



10 to 14 years old 7,610 7,984 8,091 9,162 8,011 7,714 7,077 7,146 8,194 9,240

Economic 15,558 17,607 18,062 23,079 19,072 19,179 17,416 17,470 18,549 17,569




Females 23,423 24,235 24,223 29,162 25,453 25,066 23,411 23,493 26,307 32,238

Economic 5,519 6,113 6,066 8,321 7,184 6,962 6,176 5,934 6,537 6,447


Resettled Refugee & Protected Person in Canada 885 698 746 792 740 683 685 727 1,323 3,648


0 to 4 years old 7,951 8,258 8,179 10,344 9,155 8,942 8,255 8,112 9,192 11,698

Economic 5,968 6,790 7,095 8,957 7,372 7,606 6,953 6,872 7,253 6,980




5 to 9 years old 8,329 8,849 9,058 10,973 9,508 9,553 8,929 8,925 9,957 12,396

Economic 5,528 6,419 6,362 7,742 6,275 6,322 5,583 5,699 6,160 5,393

Sponsored Family 1,203 1,064 1,022 1,005 919 863 920 878 885 1,045



10 to 14 years old 8,548 8,927 8,807 10,140 8,704 8,509 7,752 7,935 8,865 9,961

Economic 17,015 19,322 19,523 25,020 20,831 20,890 18,712 18,505 19,950 18,820




Males 24,828 26,034 26,044 31,457 27,367 27,004 24,936 24,972 28,014 34,055

Economic 10,657 11,896 11,775 16,114 13,784 13,617 12,083 11,674 12,572 12,521




0 to 4 years old 15,887 16,289 15,946 20,117 17,735 17,483 16,117 15,900 17,783 22,805

Economic 11,505 13,033 13,600 17,301 14,170 14,527 13,484 13,509 14,177 13,516




5 to 9 years old 16,206 17,069 17,423 21,200 18,370 18,364 17,401 17,484 19,479 24,287

Economic 10,411 12,000 12,210 14,684 11,949 11,925 10,561 10,792 11,750 10,352




10 to 14 years old 16,158 16,911 16,898 19,302 16,715 16,223 14,829 15,081 17,059 19,201

Economic 32,573 36,929 37,585 48,099 39,903 40,069 36,128 35,975 38,499 36,389





Total 48,251 50,269 50,268 60,621 52,820 52,072 48,347 48,466 54,386 66,296



Canada - Permanent residents less than 15 years of age by gender, age and category


Category 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Economic 64.7 72.0 73.5 79.7 76.9 77.9 75.1 73.7 70.2 54.7




0 to 4 years old 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 70.3 75.9 77.8 81.6 76.7 78.5 77.1 77.5 72.7 55.0




5 to 9 years old 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 64.2 69.9 72.3 75.8 70.8 72.6 70.3 71.3 68.2 53.7




10 to 14 years old 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 66.4 72.7 74.6 79.1 74.9 76.5 74.4 74.4 70.5 54.5




Females 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 69.4 74.0 74.2 80.4 78.5 77.9 74.8 73.2 71.1 55.1




0 to 4 years old 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 71.7 76.7 78.3 81.6 77.5 79.6 77.9 77.0 72.8 56.3




5 to 9 years old 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 64.7 71.9 72.2 76.4 72.1 74.3 72.0 71.8 69.5 54.1




10 to 14 years old 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 68.5 74.2 75.0 79.5 76.1 77.4 75.0 74.1 71.2 55.3




Males 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 67.1 73.0 73.8 80.1 77.7 77.9 75.0 73.4 70.7 54.9




0 to 4 years old 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 71.0 76.4 78.1 81.6 77.1 79.1 77.5 77.3 72.8 55.7




5 to 9 years old 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 64.4 71.0 72.3 76.1 71.5 73.5 71.2 71.6 68.9 53.9




10 to 14 years old 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 67.5 73.5 74.8 79.3 75.5 77.0 74.7 74.2 70.9 54.9





Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0



Canada - Permanent residents by gender and age, 2016



Canada - Permanent residents 15 years of age or older by age and category

Number distribution

Category 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Economic 14,675 16,549 17,328 19,089 15,968 15,952 14,368 15,408 16,555 14,010




15 to 24 years of age 37,866 37,426 37,334 37,024 33,134 32,339 30,522 30,903 33,078 33,934

Economic 69,649 78,540 81,265 99,818 84,193 88,743 83,418 98,099 100,464 93,258




25 to 44 years of age 114,696 120,810 124,045 141,162 125,483 129,786 127,067 140,895 146,058 154,423

Economic 14,168 16,864 17,123 19,718 15,825 15,800 14,185 15,516 14,661 12,161




45 to 64 years of age 29,558 31,758 32,938 34,587 29,831 32,434 36,080 30,876 30,490 31,224

Economic 175 198 193 179 186 159 138 199 193 181


Resettled Refugee & Protected Person in Canada 504 423 662 713 826 605 668 689 958 1,407


65 years of age or more 6,350 6,945 7,536 7,236 7,399 11,089 16,982 9,133 7,798 10,468

Economic 98,667 112,151 115,909 138,804 116,172 120,654 112,109 129,222 131,873 119,610




Total 188,470 196,939 201,853 220,009 195,847 205,648 210,651 211,807 217,424 230,049


Category 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Economic 38.8 44.2 46.4 51.6 48.2 49.3 47.1 49.9 50.0 41.3




15 to 24 years of age 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 60.7 65.0 65.5 70.7 67.1 68.4 65.6 69.6 68.8 60.4




25 to 44 years of age 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 47.9 53.1 52.0 57.0 53.0 48.7 39.3 50.3 48.1 38.9




45 to 64 years of age 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 2.8 2.9 2.6 2.5 2.5 1.4 0.8 2.2 2.5 1.7




65 years of age or more 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 52.4 56.9 57.4 63.1 59.3 58.7 53.2 61.0 60.7 52.0




Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0



Canada - Male permanent residents 15 years of age or older by age and category

Number distribution

Category 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Economic 7,514 8,380 8,818 9,717 8,075 8,224 7,333 7,911 8,529 7,111




15 to 24 years of age 16,754 16,581 16,699 17,007 15,244 15,124 14,087 14,348 15,586 15,482

Economic 34,795 38,008 39,762 48,579 41,676 44,331 41,216 46,528 49,925 46,840



All Other Immigration 1,111 826 723 643 604 713 511 565 635 641

25 to 44 years of age 54,509 56,753 59,293 67,576 60,516 63,132 61,047 65,653 70,385 74,475

Economic 8,401 9,906 9,978 11,506 9,292 9,155 8,272 8,496 7,991 6,951




45 to 64 years of age 14,861 16,081 16,505 17,719 15,281 15,949 17,045 14,873 14,875 15,439

Economic 126 140 125 127 127 118 107 136 152 116


Resettled Refugee & Protected Person in Canada 213 170 275 296 355 238 281 255 392 620



Economic 50,836 56,434 58,683 69,929 59,170 61,828 56,928 63,071 66,597 61,018




Males 89,129 92,550 95,895 105,516 94,376 99,372 99,962 99,067 104,385 110,247


Category 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Economic 44.8 50.5 52.8 57.1 53.0 54.4 52.1 55.1 54.7 45.9




15 to 24 years of age 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 63.8 67.0 67.1 71.9 68.9 70.2 67.5 70.9 70.9 62.9




25 to 44 years of age 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 56.5 61.6 60.5 64.9 60.8 57.4 48.5 57.1 53.7 45.0




45 to 64 years of age 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 4.2 4.5 3.7 4.0 3.8 2.3 1.4 3.2 4.3 2.4





Economic 57.0 61.0 61.2 66.3 62.7 62.2 56.9 63.7 63.8 55.3




Males 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0



Canada - Female permanent residents 15 years of age or older by age and category

Number distribution

Category 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Economic 7,161 8,168 8,510 9,372 7,893 7,728 7,034 7,497 8,024 6,898




15 to 24 years of age 21,111 20,844 20,635 20,017 17,889 17,215 16,432 16,555 17,479 18,450

Economic 34,854 40,532 41,503 51,239 42,516 44,411 42,201 51,570 50,537 46,417



All Other Immigration 1,180 814 784 702 691 754 697 744 858 730

25 to 44 years of age 60,187 64,057 64,752 73,586 64,965 66,652 66,019 75,241 75,664 79,947

Economic 5,767 6,957 7,145 8,212 6,533 6,645 5,913 7,020 6,669 5,209




45 to 64 years of age 14,697 15,676 16,433 16,868 14,549 16,485 19,033 16,003 15,600 15,783

Economic 49 58 68 52 59 41 31 63 40 65





Economic 47,831 55,715 57,226 68,875 57,001 58,825 55,179 66,150 65,270 58,589




Females 99,340 104,387 105,958 114,492 101,467 106,274 110,682 112,739 112,985 119,792


Category 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Economic 33.9 39.2 41.2 46.8 44.1 44.9 42.8 45.3 45.9 37.4




15 to 24 years of age 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 57.9 63.3 64.1 69.6 65.4 66.6 63.9 68.5 66.8 58.1




25 to 44 years of age 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 39.2 44.4 43.5 48.7 44.9 40.3 31.1 43.9 42.8 33.0




45 to 64 years of age 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 1.5 1.5 1.6 1.3 1.5 0.7 0.3 1.3 0.9 1.2





Economic 48.1 53.4 54.0 60.2 56.2 55.4 49.9 58.7 57.8 48.9




Females 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0



Canada - Permanent residents by gender and source area

Number distribution

Source area 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Africa and the Middle East 22,726 24,221 26,829 30,933 27,885 27,325 30,917 30,985 32,395 42,915

Asia and Pacif ic 62,444 65,988 65,465 75,069 65,550 70,035 70,242 73,143 75,738 75,526

Europe and the United Kingdom 18,770 19,065 19,091 18,113 14,458 15,635 15,294 14,532 16,244 17,699

United States 4,855 5,238 4,555 4,139 3,887 3,954 4,420 4,274 3,849 4,251

South and Central America 13,594 13,769 13,935 15,028 14,797 14,083 12,972 12,924 10,638 11,112

Stateless 303 293 261 317 254 210 219 367 400 416

Source area not stated 86 66 68 87 110 115 48 14 28 112

Females 122,778 128,640 130,204 143,686 126,941 131,357 134,112 136,239 139,292 152,031


Asia and Pacif ic 53,858 56,703 57,015 66,323 59,504 63,709 61,845 60,564 68,106 66,762


United States 4,604 4,948 4,439 4,000 3,784 3,916 4,065 4,217 3,657 4,156


Stateless 350 329 280 381 303 274 242 434 457 405


Males 113,972 118,600 121,965 136,999 121,756 126,400 124,913 124,052 132,405 144,302


Asia and Pacif ic 116,302 122,691 122,480 141,392 125,054 133,744 132,087 133,707 143,844 142,288


United States 9,459 10,186 8,994 8,139 7,671 7,870 8,485 8,491 7,506 8,407


Stateless 653 622 541 698 557 484 461 801 857 821



Total 236,751 247,242 252,170 280,688 248,701 257,761 259,032 260,293 271,816 296,346


Source area 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Africa and the Middle East 18.5 18.8 20.6 21.5 22.0 20.8 23.1 22.7 23.3 28.2

Asia and Pacif ic 50.9 51.3 50.3 52.2 51.6 53.3 52.4 53.7 54.4 49.7

Europe and the United Kingdom 15.3 14.8 14.7 12.6 11.4 11.9 11.4 10.7 11.7 11.6

United States 4.0 4.1 3.5 2.9 3.1 3.0 3.3 3.1 2.8 2.8

South and Central America 11.1 10.7 10.7 10.5 11.7 10.7 9.7 9.5 7.6 7.3

Stateless 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3

Source area not stated 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1

Females 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0


Asia and Pacif ic 47.3 47.8 46.7 48.4 48.9 50.4 49.5 48.8 51.4 46.3


United States 4.0 4.2 3.6 2.9 3.1 3.1 3.3 3.4 2.8 2.9


Stateless 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3


Males 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0


Asia and Pacif ic 49.1 49.6 48.6 50.4 50.3 51.9 51.0 51.4 52.9 48.0


United States 4.0 4.1 3.6 2.9 3.1 3.1 3.3 3.3 2.8 2.8


Stateless 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3



Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Note: Source country is based on Country of Citizenship



Canada - Permanent residents by category and source area

Number distribution

Source Area 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016


Asia and Pacif ic 65,859 78,359 78,201 102,335 86,564 87,415 81,465 94,945 104,835 95,742


United States 4,554 4,584 3,658 3,288 2,860 3,065 3,036 3,868 3,284 3,049


Stateless 211 204 133 217 176 163 142 67 97 65


Economic 131,264 149,098 153,514 186,938 156,099 160,744 148,252 165,198 170,375 156,000


Asia and Pacif ic 39,155 36,479 36,398 31,295 30,370 39,206 45,153 33,605 33,043 40,065


United States 4,281 5,135 4,901 4,055 3,869 3,918 4,727 4,039 3,710 4,903


Stateless 168 141 161 150 109 108 129 136 135 169




Asia and Pacif ic 9,571 6,383 6,615 6,696 7,141 5,703 4,797 4,457 5,381 6,004

Europe and the United Kingdom 1,971 994 789 869 931 882 966 1,213 1,189 1,237

United States 418 241 293 663 790 686 450 326 263 165


Stateless 249 166 207 312 259 192 176 581 611 572



Africa and the Middle East 1,272 885 805 845 771 756 548 656 703 644

Asia and Pacif ic 1,718 1,472 1,267 1,067 980 1,420 674 701 642 483

Europe and the United Kingdom 807 708 575 491 439 464 429 381 512 386

United States 206 226 142 133 152 201 272 258 264 292

South and Central America 1,355 984 992 943 1,035 1,192 1,329 1,364 1,707 1,607

Stateless 25 111 40 19 13 21 14 17 14 15




Asia and Pacif ic 116,303 122,693 122,481 141,393 125,055 133,744 132,089 133,708 143,901 142,294


United States 9,459 10,186 8,994 8,139 7,671 7,870 8,485 8,491 7,521 8,409


Stateless 653 622 541 698 557 484 461 801 857 821


Total 236,751 247,242 252,170 280,688 248,701 257,761 259,032 260,293 271,816 296,346




Canada - Permanent residents by category and source area


Source Area 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016


Asia and Pacif ic 50.2 52.6 50.9 54.7 55.5 54.4 55.0 57.5 61.5 61.4


United States 3.5 3.1 2.4 1.8 1.8 1.9 2.0 2.3 1.9 2.0


Stateless 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0


Economic 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0


Asia and Pacif ic 54.3 50.7 50.6 47.7 49.5 56.1 54.2 49.7 50.5 51.4


United States 5.9 7.1 6.8 6.2 6.3 5.6 5.7 6.0 5.7 6.3


Stateless 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2




Asia and Pacif ic 34.2 29.2 28.9 27.1 25.6 24.7 19.9 18.5 16.8 10.2


United States 1.5 1.1 1.3 2.7 2.8 3.0 1.9 1.4 0.8 0.3


Stateless 0.9 0.8 0.9 1.3 0.9 0.8 0.7 2.4 1.9 1.0




Asia and Pacif ic 31.9 33.5 33.1 30.5 28.9 35.0 20.6 20.8 16.7 14.1


United States 3.8 5.1 3.7 3.8 4.5 5.0 8.3 7.6 6.9 8.5


Stateless 0.5 2.5 1.0 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.4




Asia and Pacif ic 49.1 49.6 48.6 50.4 50.3 51.9 51.0 51.4 52.9 48.0


United States 4.0 4.1 3.6 2.9 3.1 3.1 3.3 3.3 2.8 2.8


Stateless 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3


Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0




Canada - Permanent residents by age and source area

Number distribution

Source Area 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016


Asia and Pacif ic 22,436 22,977 22,387 29,329 25,167 24,785 22,509 22,426 25,756 25,353


United States 3,302 3,182 2,736 2,895 2,909 2,684 2,510 2,741 2,331 2,272


Stateless 127 130 109 204 129 92 87 174 170 204


0 to 14 years of age 48,251 50,269 50,268 60,621 52,820 52,072 48,347 48,466 54,386 66,296


Asia and Pacif ic 20,291 19,890 19,766 19,795 17,130 17,140 15,135 16,122 17,989 16,689


United States 928 1,093 1,007 844 744 721 856 796 788 824


Stateless 127 111 104 111 94 79 73 140 195 165


15 to 24 years of age 37,866 37,426 37,334 37,024 33,134 32,339 30,522 30,903 33,078 33,934


Asia and Pacif ic 53,996 58,992 58,643 69,185 62,237 64,231 61,528 72,806 79,203 78,245


United States 3,216 3,766 3,379 2,931 2,720 3,082 3,442 3,363 3,071 3,687


Stateless 279 268 225 267 231 197 199 370 367 324


25 to 44 years of age 114,696 120,810 124,045 141,162 125,483 129,786 127,067 140,895 146,058 154,423


Asia and Pacif ic 15,894 17,348 17,800 19,223 16,099 19,245 21,300 16,964 16,681 16,087


United States 1,769 1,817 1,563 1,232 1,105 1,188 1,358 1,359 1,155 1,364


Stateless 86 92 80 80 72 79 63 90 95 93


45 to 64 years of age 29,558 31,758 32,938 34,587 29,831 32,434 36,080 30,876 30,490 31,224

Africa and the Middle East 966 1,107 1,393 1,095 1,156 973 2,417 1,844 1,772 2,442

Asia and Pacif ic 3,667 3,473 3,875 3,838 4,410 8,327 11,603 5,383 4,270 5,920

Europe and the United Kingdom 1,040 1,535 1,424 1,269 804 993 1,966 957 1,071 1,322

United States 243 325 305 235 190 193 316 227 175 262

South and Central America 390 474 509 758 805 560 638 692 479 481

Stateless 34 21 23 36 31 37 39 27 30 35




Asia and Pacif ic 116,303 122,693 122,481 141,393 125,055 133,744 132,089 133,708 143,901 142,294


United States 9,459 10,186 8,994 8,139 7,671 7,870 8,485 8,491 7,521 8,409


Stateless 653 622 541 698 557 484 461 801 857 821


Total 236,751 247,242 252,170 280,688 248,701 257,761 259,032 260,293 271,816 296,346




Canada - Permanent residents by age and source area


Source Area 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016


Asia and Pacif ic 46.5 45.7 44.5 48.4 47.6 47.6 46.6 46.3 47.4 38.2


United States 6.8 6.3 5.4 4.8 5.5 5.2 5.2 5.7 4.3 3.4


Stateless 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.3


0 to 14 years of age 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0


Asia and Pacif ic 53.6 53.1 52.9 53.5 51.7 53.0 49.6 52.2 54.4 49.2


United States 2.5 2.9 2.7 2.3 2.2 2.2 2.8 2.6 2.4 2.4


Stateless 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.6 0.5


15 to 24 years of age 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0


Asia and Pacif ic 47.1 48.8 47.3 49.0 49.6 49.5 48.4 51.7 54.2 50.7


United States 2.8 3.1 2.7 2.1 2.2 2.4 2.7 2.4 2.1 2.4


Stateless 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.2


25 to 44 years of age 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0


Asia and Pacif ic 53.8 54.6 54.0 55.6 54.0 59.3 59.0 54.9 54.7 51.5


United States 6.0 5.7 4.7 3.6 3.7 3.7 3.8 4.4 3.8 4.4


Stateless 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3


45 to 64 years of age 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0


Asia and Pacif ic 57.7 50.0 51.4 53.0 59.6 75.1 68.3 58.9 54.8 56.6


United States 3.8 4.7 4.0 3.2 2.6 1.7 1.9 2.5 2.2 2.5


Stateless 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.3




Asia and Pacif ic 49.1 49.6 48.6 50.4 50.3 51.9 51.0 51.4 52.9 48.0


United States 4.0 4.1 3.6 2.9 3.1 3.1 3.3 3.3 2.8 2.8


Stateless 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3


Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0




Canada - Permanent residents by source country

Source country 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Philippines 19,833 24,883 28,568 38,615 36,758 34,299 29,531 40,032 50,827 41,791

India 28,729 28,255 29,448 34,224 27,485 30,914 33,078 38,333 39,526 39,789

Syria 1,056 919 917 1,040 1,005 649 1,008 2,051 9,854 34,925

China, People's Republic of 27,629 30,030 29,617 30,378 28,491 33,009 34,114 24,627 19,533 26,852

Pakistan 10,123 8,984 7,213 6,810 7,467 11,208 12,609 9,114 11,329 11,337

United States of America 9,459 10,186 8,994 8,139 7,671 7,870 8,485 8,491 7,521 8,409

Iran 6,974 6,474 6,580 7,477 7,479 7,525 11,288 16,772 11,668 6,483

France 4,289 4,532 5,051 4,646 4,080 6,270 5,623 4,718 5,807 6,348

United Kingdom and Colonies 8,213 8,975 8,872 8,715 6,128 6,171 5,814 5,759 5,450 5,812

Eritrea 699 797 903 931 1,182 1,335 1,719 1,974 2,171 4,629

Nigeria 2,371 2,108 3,156 3,906 3,102 3,441 4,171 4,160 4,133 4,424

Korea, Republic of 5,912 7,291 5,873 5,537 4,588 5,315 4,509 4,458 4,091 4,007

Jamaica 2,141 2,334 2,456 2,321 2,059 2,173 2,480 3,050 3,426 3,557

Mexico 3,238 2,853 3,092 3,861 3,947 4,227 3,995 4,478 3,231 3,400

Ukraine 2,218 1,935 2,363 3,157 2,516 2,263 2,484 2,539 2,375 3,365

Bangladesh 2,897 2,939 2,104 4,721 2,694 2,630 3,792 2,233 3,304 3,230

Egypt 2,355 3,347 3,495 5,982 4,663 5,550 4,165 3,159 3,762 3,089

Haiti 1,598 2,488 2,079 4,730 6,469 5,855 4,147 3,315 2,727 2,921

Algeria 3,623 4,005 5,390 4,751 4,325 3,762 4,325 3,653 2,835 2,821

Afghanistan 2,652 2,110 1,745 1,758 2,203 2,635 2,003 1,489 2,587 2,635

Congo, Democratic Republic of the 1,465 1,395 1,580 1,237 1,217 1,711 2,050 1,749 1,714 2,550

Vietnam 2,574 1,784 2,171 1,942 1,723 1,729 2,112 2,494 2,591 2,446

Colombia 5,357 5,449 4,652 5,218 4,366 3,736 3,633 2,859 2,181 2,442

Russia 2,983 2,690 2,931 2,288 1,963 2,077 2,462 1,772 2,147 2,430

Iraq 2,406 3,543 5,450 5,941 6,196 4,036 4,912 3,894 3,980 2,412

Israel 2,401 2,559 2,316 2,755 1,967 2,132 1,945 1,900 2,132 2,400

Ireland, Republic of 300 412 395 548 524 725 1,015 1,977 2,081 2,218

Morocco 4,019 4,225 5,532 6,242 4,390 3,855 3,276 2,491 2,736 2,116

Cameroon, Federal Republic of 1,025 1,277 1,343 1,801 1,635 2,503 2,438 2,107 2,034 2,108

Ethiopia 1,507 1,611 1,287 1,865 2,163 1,859 1,608 1,339 1,365 1,939

Lebanon 3,467 3,563 3,078 3,432 3,070 1,614 2,175 2,224 2,135 1,936

Ivory Coast, Republic of 619 646 668 1,066 636 1,023 1,170 1,521 1,361 1,763

Brazil 1,745 2,137 2,509 2,598 1,508 1,641 1,712 1,916 1,751 1,727

Australia 1,032 1,018 1,018 933 849 982 1,120 1,295 1,414 1,694

Sri Lanka 4,097 4,751 4,543 4,419 3,309 3,338 2,394 2,604 1,795 1,545

Romania 3,834 2,836 2,076 1,922 1,776 1,588 1,512 1,553 1,183 1,361

Somalia, Democratic Republic of 1,161 1,014 1,214 1,526 1,532 1,574 2,029 1,491 1,157 1,312

Tunisia 869 950 1,195 1,299 1,441 1,495 1,624 1,472 1,283 1,309

Hong Kong 674 893 656 623 586 719 774 586 630 1,210

Germany 2,448 3,833 3,886 2,955 2,015 1,699 1,216 1,273 1,248 1,208

Cuba 1,349 1,300 1,426 961 961 1,301 1,401 1,079 827 1,118

Moldova 1,099 1,127 1,535 1,988 1,367 1,416 1,232 942 929 1,088

South Africa, Republic of 1,200 1,122 1,188 1,238 959 1,242 1,238 1,001 960 1,077

Japan 1,250 1,284 1,193 1,167 1,265 1,210 983 1,127 995 1,034

Venezuela 1,335 1,239 1,352 998 1,451 1,366 1,022 1,483 929 1,020

Poland 1,235 1,267 1,013 795 720 779 853 773 980 1,000

Italy 316 370 429 434 374 438 545 652 832 978

Turkey 1,463 1,122 1,238 1,492 1,255 1,068 729 717 874 921

Jordan 1,421 1,579 1,235 1,831 1,635 1,206 1,255 1,158 1,112 914

Portugal 403 664 622 629 528 560 630 637 822 847

Stateless 653 622 541 698 557 484 461 801 857 821

Taiw an 2,766 2,993 2,472 2,629 1,703 985 768 692 617 791

Nepal 511 581 561 1,392 1,129 1,185 1,308 1,219 1,499 750

Spain 136 168 195 174 179 259 330 494 712 647

Burundi 614 448 566 529 604 682 480 517 938 634

Croatia 102 131 92 91 135 112 125 293 501 634

El Salvador 926 1,114 841 768 690 641 637 700 656 627

Dominican Republic 309 430 362 455 735 604 589 445 602 606

Senegal 433 555 668 765 740 948 818 731 649 594



Source country 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Mauritius 507 714 872 1,455 1,146 798 1,203 419 718 552

Hungary 425 382 312 354 287 300 423 536 770 519

Netherlands, The 615 818 786 759 585 502 395 422 532 516

Albania 702 560 715 560 539 619 603 519 574 513

Guyana 1,277 1,137 1,180 953 803 671 656 784 540 513

New Zealand 349 480 520 489 375 417 415 396 331 498

Ghana 688 629 658 802 528 531 518 518 369 483

Kenya 449 453 489 507 585 718 664 455 383 480

Serbia, Republic of 46 251 349 243 280 381 295 319 576 477

Thailand 487 519 512 499 396 296 400 608 483 462

Belgium 363 335 358 363 332 401 379 356 359 453

Indonesia, Republic of 657 661 504 712 390 395 386 416 377 446

Sudan, Democratic Republic of 683 620 422 612 530 444 343 484 359 446

Palestinian Authority (Gaza/West Bank) 440 481 399 652 555 531 462 443 553 442

Peru 1,490 1,094 1,881 1,282 886 787 683 712 559 436

Greece 110 106 118 101 102 146 299 373 477 434

Myanmar (Burma) 1,887 975 1,152 556 365 193 262 440 439 425

St. Vincent and the Grenadines 578 433 511 434 451 523 539 607 490 423

Guinea, Republic of 415 327 347 395 352 406 462 365 244 412

Kazakhstan 436 394 431 377 381 462 347 293 327 398

Bulgaria 1,172 994 784 556 365 451 512 451 371 370

Malaysia 600 658 640 799 409 356 204 336 332 366

Rw anda 420 358 415 396 492 562 415 335 362 363

Honduras 165 185 169 385 538 436 350 402 422 360

Belarus 568 524 454 438 357 277 247 175 214 359

Armenia 198 205 267 252 236 258 208 205 302 352

St. Lucia 255 298 257 249 261 382 392 505 437 329

Czech Republic 137 104 159 168 128 173 174 224 281 325

Trinidad and Tobago, Republic of 975 1,002 1,134 914 588 579 427 430 348 325

Libya 198 306 282 384 352 299 255 298 244 302

Benin, Republic of 183 205 238 290 284 390 397 242 259 298

Zimbabw e 663 611 508 494 434 437 408 332 238 286

Burkina-Faso 136 139 162 186 144 269 322 339 236 280

Djibouti, Republic of 50 47 70 123 127 164 204 99 147 271

Slovak Republic 215 125 128 135 134 136 105 161 208 270

Argentina 620 540 467 459 278 263 282 214 237 259

Singapore 689 734 366 805 219 145 141 179 255 258

Cambodia 460 354 203 200 196 233 289 237 205 251

Ecuador 419 437 373 353 348 279 418 334 215 251

Kyrgyzstan 135 167 173 157 159 278 123 126 132 249

Chile 530 350 375 340 174 291 273 299 258 246

Togo, Republic of 235 351 400 354 261 299 315 248 258 246

Uzbekistan 284 215 288 289 162 234 167 164 189 216

Sw itzerland 308 357 328 285 266 243 200 203 236 213

Mali, Republic of 143 154 164 170 155 191 190 195 190 207

Guatemala 256 263 264 265 288 358 348 317 240 199

Lithuania 108 109 63 57 52 77 145 154 133 191

Fiji 304 321 311 398 316 270 228 254 222 190

Kosovo, Republic of 0 5 110 226 208 147 171 167 227 184

Uganda 170 204 185 216 213 222 204 170 182 181

Saudi Arabia 188 249 246 330 278 286 267 232 196 177

Sw eden 193 165 167 159 133 140 140 157 176 177

Yemen 122 129 128 211 159 174 217 149 206 158

Liberia 153 74 94 162 106 58 39 60 155 154

Madagascar 115 118 169 178 148 165 229 112 115 142

Bosnia-Herzegovina 209 182 156 168 140 121 119 147 195 140

Barbados 130 134 125 121 97 132 97 133 140 139

Congo, People's Republic of the 87 72 69 75 81 91 114 84 131 139

Costa Rica 281 246 217 190 148 183 122 165 121 134

Latvia 88 67 85 70 103 199 215 163 130 134

Macedonia 211 191 198 188 130 126 112 117 221 134

Georgia 132 112 128 126 139 148 125 102 103 118



Source country 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Bhutan 7 36 865 1,464 1,879 1,075 487 356 387 116

Tanzania, United Republic of 194 230 136 200 215 224 182 133 157 116

Azerbaijan 203 125 165 209 137 160 57 63 112 115

Grenada 360 284 325 208 173 142 170 137 115 112

Bolivia 107 142 214 180 86 83 107 95 74 111

Austria 98 91 109 124 84 102 90 98 118 102

Central African Republic 30 28 19 25 18 44 169 129 456 101

Chad, Republic of 131 95 87 98 79 97 86 82 87 101

Mongolia, People's Republic of 82 59 118 169 103 68 99 93 45 94

South Sudan, Republic of 0 0 0 0 0 6 30 27 60 94

Sierra Leone 91 103 70 63 96 72 63 60 94 88

Niger, Republic of the 75 75 82 80 90 95 105 62 77 87

Bahama Islands, The 21 30 27 25 40 60 55 61 74 82

Denmark 97 108 81 92 93 93 81 69 75 81

Norw ay 73 66 75 46 49 53 59 46 50 81

Finland 62 89 63 63 72 62 76 68 83 79

Nicaragua 76 123 114 91 122 106 96 118 96 73

Namibia 13 26 14 17 22 24 83 120 102 68

Botsw ana, Republic of 8 28 15 42 53 64 77 103 96 66

Belize 28 48 38 39 35 33 53 53 27 64

Uruguay 147 159 99 93 81 47 58 43 50 57

Estonia 34 34 26 28 15 26 45 32 53 54

Mauritania 96 112 83 74 54 77 57 84 104 54

Zambia 71 64 60 102 69 46 59 46 56 54

Gambia 32 25 10 37 24 18 33 36 42 52

Gabon Republic 101 86 86 64 63 74 90 68 57 50

Antigua and Barbuda 15 32 38 27 37 50 25 50 51 46

Panama, Republic of 63 52 73 65 49 34 43 59 39 44

Kuw ait 62 53 68 67 58 73 48 49 20 43

Paraguay 98 94 88 89 83 55 66 38 36 42

St. Kitts-Nevis 10 25 11 21 12 21 17 24 23 41

Angola 106 76 62 61 39 70 45 21 30 33

Slovenia 29 18 27 12 13 36 20 30 41 33

Dominica 79 60 59 43 36 43 48 34 28 29

Tajikistan 44 15 50 52 47 34 39 24 43 28

Macau 16 12 21 21 13 33 29 37 21 26

United Arab Emirates 37 33 37 86 60 54 46 40 33 25

Montenegro, Republic of 7 15 8 13 18 24 9 7 23 23

Malaw i 13 5 10 28 16 9 10 20 23 21

Laos 53 32 39 54 22 25 15 28 19 20

Bahrain 22 9 35 28 21 39 32 25 33 19

Cyprus 4 7 6 18 6 12 16 28 27 16

Iceland 15 13 15 30 38 42 72 38 32 16

Sw aziland 5 6 10 3 13 17 40 38 36 15

Turkmenistan 37 13 20 30 20 19 14 5 8 13

Comoros 11 3 19 22 14 18 22 8 11 9

Surinam 20 9 12 13 11 16 4 6 10 9

Korea, People's Democratic Republic of 7 19 11 45 97 66 17 13 12 8

Lesotho 4 1 8 7 1 0 6 2 1 8

Equatorial Guinea, Republic of 5 1 5 4 4 4 11 2 0 7

Guinea-Bissau 7 2 0 2 2 4 0 4 5 7

Papua New Guinea 0 9 1 3 0 3 3 0 7 7

Luxembourg 9 3 5 8 11 6 7 8 8 6

Brunei 11 10 5 12 6 3 6 3 9 5

Malta 7 21 18 17 8 9 4 9 10 5

Samoa, Independent State of 1 4 2 5 3 2 0 1 2 5

Seychelles 9 18 4 10 10 6 5 2 1 5

Cape Verde Islands 2 5 1 3 3 6 2 0 3 3

Mozambique 5 5 12 7 3 4 12 3 8 3

Oman 16 10 7 14 10 13 11 8 5 3

Qatar 5 9 6 18 3 14 6 9 0 3

Pitcairn Island 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2



Source country 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Czechoslovakia 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Maldives, Republic of 2 1 7 4 3 1 1 0 2 1

Marshall Islands, Republic of the 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Monaco 1 0 0 4 1 3 1 0 1 1

Nevis 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Serbia and Montenegro 792 456 204 109 39 32 34 17 18 1

Solomons, The 5 12 5 5 10 0 3 1 1 1

Tibet 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Western Sahara 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Yugoslavia 99 95 48 46 17 12 7 13 25 1

Andorra 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0

East Timor, Democratic Republic of 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0

Europe NES 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 0

Kiribati 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0

Liechtenstein 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0

Micronesia, Federated States of 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

Nauru 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0

New Caledonia 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0

Palau, Republic of 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0

Panama Canal Zone 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

San Marino 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

Sao Tome and Principe 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 0

Soloman Islands 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Tonga 1 0 5 5 2 3 5 2 10 0

Tuvalu 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 3 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0

Vanuatu 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0

Other country of citizenship 3 3 2 8 20 28 29 21 18 7

Country of citizenship not stated 144 123 122 160 228 197 64 14 34 227

Total 236,751 247,242 252,170 280,688 248,701 257,761 259,032 260,293 271,816 296,346




Canada - Permanent residents by province or territory and urban area

Number distribution

Urban area 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

St. John's 380 484 454 526 464 433 551 547 779 809

Other - New foundland and Labrador 166 143 152 188 221 298 284 352 343 379

Newfoundland and Labrador 546 627 606 714 685 731 835 899 1,122 1,188

Charlottetow n 900 1,360 1,631 2,492 1,666 973 850 1,486 1,100 2,096

Other - Prince Edw ard Island 92 94 128 100 74 127 149 146 90 217

Prince Edward Island 992 1,454 1,759 2,592 1,740 1,100 999 1,632 1,190 2,313

Halifax 2,046 2,064 1,811 1,816 1,597 1,779 1,963 2,079 2,735 4,568

Cape Breton 56 80 44 117 86 69 72 98 123 171

Truro 28 45 89 78 106 90 102 84 74 110

Other - Nova Scotia 393 462 444 384 352 401 392 408 471 634

Nova Scotia 2,523 2,651 2,388 2,395 2,141 2,339 2,529 2,669 3,403 5,483

Fredericton 409 544 493 563 585 665 611 912 647 1,491

Moncton 345 365 479 424 470 532 536 817 845 1,392

Saint John 523 560 585 655 474 670 439 722 697 1,235

Other - New Brunsw ick 366 387 356 483 442 349 434 386 389 557

New Brunswick 1,643 1,856 1,913 2,125 1,971 2,216 2,020 2,837 2,578 4,675

Montréal 36,553 36,771 39,899 43,447 41,338 43,598 41,233 40,320 39,484 41,643

Québec 2,132 2,075 2,426 2,690 2,326 2,902 2,918 2,736 3,031 3,515

Trois-Rivières 2,414 2,369 2,966 3,309 3,734 3,472 3,099 2,855 2,484 2,891

Sherbrooke 1,074 1,083 1,026 1,180 970 970 1,000 900 1,177 1,449

Ottaw a - Gatineau (Quebec part) 1,131 1,159 1,205 1,550 1,449 1,516 1,530 1,341 926 1,365

Granby 171 116 196 157 170 148 113 160 159 305

Saint-Hyacinthe 185 111 182 102 187 163 156 233 180 232

Drummondville 183 94 158 114 137 132 95 136 148 216

Saguenay 165 147 151 121 107 127 164 125 137 156

Joliette 65 90 124 128 130 91 93 61 78 130

Victoriaville 47 134 54 79 64 39 75 159 83 118

Other - Quebec 1,080 1,045 1,101 1,107 1,088 1,867 1,536 1,219 1,074 1,215

Quebec 45,200 45,194 49,488 53,984 51,700 55,025 52,012 50,245 48,961 53,235

Toronto 86,887 86,665 82,391 91,850 77,536 77,036 81,472 75,635 82,096 81,368

Ottaw a - Gatineau (Ontario part) 5,832 6,316 6,832 7,209 6,445 6,084 6,039 5,265 6,248 7,867

Hamilton 3,644 3,758 3,707 3,981 3,250 4,057 3,221 3,100 3,021 4,191

Kitchener - Cambridge - Waterloo 3,205 2,918 2,822 3,060 2,519 2,540 2,797 2,372 2,455 3,728

London 2,469 2,336 2,477 2,940 2,273 1,863 2,058 2,002 1,986 3,304

Windsor 2,268 2,014 1,968 1,876 1,712 1,235 1,688 1,456 1,809 2,305

St. Catharines - Niagara 1,378 1,237 1,117 1,255 1,156 963 982 915 921 1,037

Oshaw a 863 734 799 759 769 719 838 796 643 703

Guelph 708 758 634 617 523 608 620 609 685 675

Kingston 380 416 396 443 331 290 321 333 389 529

Barrie 401 357 418 357 312 271 374 351 412 355

Peterborough 174 159 208 149 135 140 154 143 149 352

Leamington 101 122 102 136 77 116 145 132 135 277

Thunder Bay 145 142 122 150 113 96 107 130 149 264

Belleville 338 359 366 456 314 438 313 243 230 217

Greater Sudbury 135 134 144 114 144 151 169 291 186 178

Sault Ste. Marie 65 72 58 93 48 54 52 57 68 156

Chatham-Kent 108 98 111 103 93 85 103 90 116 149

Brantford 217 232 168 254 192 170 197 195 148 148

Sarnia 169 139 127 153 85 101 91 103 101 121

Other - Ontario 1,827 1,911 1,893 2,155 1,412 2,069 1,818 1,547 1,655 2,087

Ontario 111,314 110,877 106,860 118,110 99,439 99,086 103,559 95,765 103,602 110,011

Winnipeg 8,486 8,152 9,974 12,345 13,402 11,065 11,117 13,859 12,391 14,067

Brandon 645 673 1,157 1,437 700 586 464 536 700 637

Steinbach 369 488 409 313 318 206 181 158 190 215

Thompson 39 63 78 141 139 162 158 200 136 149

Portage la Prairie 28 52 63 74 70 51 69 60 95 103

Other - Manitoba 1,387 1,789 1,840 1,498 1,334 1,238 1,117 1,418 1,388 1,649

Manitoba 10,954 11,217 13,521 15,808 15,963 13,308 13,106 16,231 14,900 16,820



Urban area 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Saskatoon 1,618 2,061 2,564 3,176 3,798 4,455 3,747 4,458 4,449 5,750

Regina 914 1,408 2,062 2,567 3,201 3,921 3,654 3,771 3,971 4,994

Prince Albert 118 118 138 147 231 274 359 324 380 450

Lloydminster (Saskatchew an part) 19 100 224 170 137 285 340 423 364 336

Moose Jaw 86 119 107 89 132 163 176 224 299 330

Estevan 11 28 117 103 112 195 278 289 323 321

Yorkton 27 71 72 103 128 178 196 194 193 214

North Battleford 130 87 240 138 153 235 197 231 161 213

Sw ift Current 75 116 177 116 124 143 87 148 152 201

Other - Saskatchew an 518 727 1,189 1,006 939 1,324 1,647 1,768 2,226 2,046

Saskatchewan 3,516 4,835 6,890 7,615 8,955 11,173 10,681 11,830 12,518 14,855

Calgary 11,251 13,055 13,729 16,115 15,059 16,813 17,617 19,537 21,700 21,433

Edmonton 6,544 7,521 8,511 11,014 10,457 11,982 12,852 15,446 16,740 17,884

Wood Buffalo 431 479 681 692 734 853 952 1,292 1,437 1,306

Red Deer 567 676 537 586 759 1,066 719 923 988 1,104

Lethbridge 310 361 514 625 560 615 555 651 602 934

Grande Prairie 167 132 231 323 218 317 330 508 671 704

Medicine Hat 163 181 169 207 189 220 190 273 352 453

Brooks 99 104 298 402 545 1,042 286 204 171 406

Lloydminster (Alberta part) 57 117 85 88 53 88 108 137 280 237

Cold Lake 15 13 26 26 29 59 60 84 182 187

Canmore 106 76 111 112 112 147 168 136 127 173

Okotoks 128 159 193 190 123 158 144 167 169 146

Wetaskiw in 29 38 22 95 79 95 71 44 128 137

Camrose 10 79 63 46 65 83 85 106 151 117

High River 43 32 54 137 222 246 209 255 77 116

Lacombe 27 45 39 50 55 71 58 68 65 112

Other - Alberta 913 1,133 1,751 1,945 1,691 2,216 2,205 2,666 3,359 3,747

Alberta 20,860 24,201 27,014 32,653 30,950 36,071 36,609 42,497 47,199 49,196

Vancouver 32,956 37,465 34,627 37,338 28,985 29,484 29,494 28,400 28,383 29,714

Victoria 1,270 1,491 1,482 1,516 1,275 1,377 1,193 1,370 1,573 2,115

Abbotsford - Mission 1,306 1,397 1,368 1,360 1,114 1,124 1,220 1,093 1,077 1,129

Kelow na 531 603 605 592 463 545 557 567 617 584

Kamloops 174 225 267 234 212 263 217 219 265 360

Nanaimo 284 245 284 258 226 204 209 255 279 328

Fort St. John 82 51 50 76 105 135 154 176 235 284

Prince George 142 148 180 175 149 177 189 248 289 254

Chilliw ack 209 216 237 184 182 258 235 236 263 214

Vernon 120 110 125 116 89 97 100 106 138 160

Squamish 98 83 136 130 95 100 101 120 151 144

Daw son Creek 17 27 34 47 69 78 87 101 120 141

Penticton 99 96 105 75 60 79 80 63 89 110

Terrace 31 17 46 27 25 15 27 37 48 102

Courtenay 76 94 121 104 103 105 114 124 100 101

Other - British Columbia 1,566 1,723 1,774 1,952 1,645 2,189 2,224 2,053 2,105 2,326

British Columbia 38,961 43,991 41,441 44,184 34,797 36,230 36,201 35,168 35,732 38,066

Yellow knife 71 110 87 108 65 139 113 147 173 157

Other - Northw est Territories 17 17 20 29 20 27 37 20 38 28

Northwest Territories 88 127 107 137 85 166 150 167 211 185

Other - Nunavut 19 50 10 19 24 20 11 23 37 36

Nunavut 19 50 10 19 24 20 11 23 37 36

Whitehorse 69 100 156 323 218 252 278 259 241 183

Other - Yukon 14 10 17 27 19 29 38 45 26 28

Yukon 83 110 173 350 237 281 316 304 267 211

Other - Province or territory not stated 52 52 0 2 14 15 4 26 96 72

Province or territory not stated 52 52 0 2 14 15 4 26 96 72

Total 236,751 247,242 252,170 280,688 248,701 257,761 259,032 260,293 271,816 296,346



Canada - Permanent residents by province or territory and urban area


Urban area 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

St. John's 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3

Other - New foundland and Labrador 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Newfoundland and Labrador 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4

Charlottetow n 0.4 0.6 0.6 0.9 0.7 0.4 0.3 0.6 0.4 0.7

Other - Prince Edw ard Island 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1

Prince Edward Island 0.4 0.6 0.7 0.9 0.7 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.4 0.8

Halifax 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.8 1.0 1.5

Cape Breton 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1

Truro 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Other - Nova Scotia 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2

Nova Scotia 1.1 1.1 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9 1.0 1.0 1.3 1.9

Fredericton 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.5

Moncton 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.5

Saint John 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.4

Other - New Brunsw ick 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2

New Brunswick 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.8 1.1 0.9 1.6

Montréal 15.4 14.9 15.8 15.5 16.6 16.9 15.9 15.5 14.5 14.1

Québec 0.9 0.8 1.0 1.0 0.9 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.2

Granby 1.0 1.0 1.2 1.2 1.5 1.3 1.2 1.1 0.9 1.0

Trois-Rivières 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.5

Saint-Hyacinthe 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.3 0.5

Drummondville 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1

Saguenay 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Sherbrooke 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1

Ottaw a - Gatineau (Quebec part) 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1

Joliette 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Victoriaville 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0

Other - Quebec 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.4

Quebec 19.1 18.3 19.6 19.2 20.8 21.3 20.1 19.3 18.0 18.0

Toronto 36.7 35.1 32.7 32.7 31.2 29.9 31.5 29.1 30.2 27.5

Ottaw a - Gatineau (Ontario part) 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.4 2.3 2.0 2.3 2.7

Oshaw a 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.4 1.3 1.6 1.2 1.2 1.1 1.4

Guelph 1.4 1.2 1.1 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.1 0.9 0.9 1.3

Kingston 1.0 0.9 1.0 1.0 0.9 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.7 1.1

Hamilton 1.0 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.5 0.7 0.6 0.7 0.8

Kitchener - Cambridge - Waterloo 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3

Barrie 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2

Peterborough 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.2

London 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2

Leamington 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1

Thunder Bay 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Windsor 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1

Belleville 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1

Greater Sudbury 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Sault Ste. Marie 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Chatham-Kent 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1

Brantford 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1

Sarnia 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0

St. Catharines - Niagara 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Other - Ontario 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.6 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.7

Ontario 47.0 44.8 42.4 42.1 40.0 38.4 40.0 36.8 38.1 37.1

Brandon 3.6 3.3 4.0 4.4 5.4 4.3 4.3 5.3 4.6 4.7

Steinbach 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.6

Other - Manitoba 0.3 0.3 0.5 0.5 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.2

Thompson 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Winnipeg 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Portage la Prairie 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Manitoba 4.6 4.5 5.4 5.6 6.4 5.2 5.1 6.2 5.5 5.7



Urban area 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Saskatoon 0.7 0.8 1.0 1.1 1.5 1.7 1.4 1.7 1.6 1.9

Regina 0.4 0.6 0.8 0.9 1.3 1.5 1.4 1.4 1.5 1.7

Prince Albert 0.2 0.3 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.7

Lloydminster (Saskatchew an part) 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2

Moose Jaw 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1

Estevan 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Yorkton 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

North Battleford 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Sw ift Current 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Other - Saskatchew an 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1

Saskatchewan 1.5 2.0 2.7 2.7 3.6 4.3 4.1 4.5 4.6 5.0

Lethbridge 4.8 5.3 5.4 5.7 6.1 6.5 6.8 7.5 8.0 7.2

Grande Prairie 2.8 3.0 3.4 3.9 4.2 4.6 5.0 5.9 6.2 6.0

Medicine Hat 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.4

Brooks 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4

Lloydminster (Alberta part) 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.3

Calgary 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2

Cold Lake 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2

Edmonton 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Canmore 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1

Okotoks 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1

Wetaskiw in 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1

Wood Buffalo 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0

Camrose 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

High River 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0

Lacombe 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0

Red Deer 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Other - Alberta 0.4 0.5 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.9 0.9 1.0 1.2 1.3

Alberta 8.8 9.8 10.7 11.6 12.4 14.0 14.1 16.3 17.4 16.6

Kelow na 13.9 15.2 13.7 13.3 11.7 11.4 11.4 10.9 10.4 10.0

Kamloops 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.7

Nanaimo 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4

Vancouver 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2

Fort St. John 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Prince George 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Chilliw ack 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Victoria 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Vernon 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Squamish 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1

Daw son Creek 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0

Abbotsford - Mission 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Penticton 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Terrace 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Courtenay 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Other - British Columbia 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.8

British Columbia 16.5 17.8 16.4 15.7 14.0 14.1 14.0 13.5 13.1 12.8

Yellow knife 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1

Other - Northw est Territories 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Northwest Territories 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Other - Nunavut 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Nunavut 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Whitehorse 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Other - Yukon 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Yukon 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Other - Province or territory not stated 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Province or territory not stated 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0



Canada - Permanent residents by province or territory and category

Number distribution

Category 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Economic 241 299 327 420 393 506 553 609 682 656





Economic 852 1,308 1,601 2,486 1,608 960 832 1,506 1,006 1,966





Economic 1,790 1,829 1,654 1,675 1,410 1,624 1,684 1,953 2,485 3,384




Nova Scotia 2,523 2,651 2,388 2,395 2,141 2,339 2,529 2,669 3,403 5,483

Economic 1,171 1,355 1,498 1,727 1,476 1,802 1,529 2,378 2,030 2,640




New Brunswick 1,643 1,856 1,913 2,125 1,971 2,216 2,020 2,837 2,578 4,675

Economic 28,029 29,368 34,512 37,923 36,077 39,618 34,875 33,439 29,901 31,600



All Other Immigration 1,654 968 813 627 658 622 568 627 967 1,086

Quebec 45,200 45,194 49,488 53,984 51,700 55,025 52,012 50,245 48,961 53,235

Economic 53,700 59,134 54,846 69,512 51,395 49,145 47,656 50,939 57,022 45,106




Ontario 111,314 110,877 106,860 118,110 99,439 99,086 103,559 95,765 103,602 110,011

Economic 8,329 8,695 10,906 13,276 13,152 10,330 9,599 12,852 11,251 10,688


Resettled Refugee & Protected Person in Canada 1,170 972 1,098 1,032 1,303 1,143 1,464 1,505 1,768 3,730


Manitoba 10,954 11,217 13,521 15,808 15,963 13,308 13,106 16,231 14,900 16,820

Economic 2,346 3,665 5,538 6,243 7,659 9,730 8,814 9,895 10,050 10,971

Sponsored Family 544 603 689 768 734 865 1,259 1,251 1,556 1,961



Saskatchewan 3,516 4,835 6,890 7,615 8,955 11,173 10,681 11,830 12,518 14,855

Economic 11,275 14,505 16,533 22,407 20,751 24,569 22,639 29,620 33,421 28,430




Alberta 20,860 24,201 27,014 32,653 30,950 36,071 36,609 42,497 47,199 49,196

Economic 23,396 28,720 25,920 30,873 21,912 22,105 19,714 21,632 22,159 20,303





Economic 85 177 179 396 258 351 355 375 368 256




Territories* 190 287 290 506 346 467 477 494 515 432

Economic 131,214 149,055 153,514 186,938 156,091 160,740 148,250 165,198 170,375 156,000




Category not stated 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0


Total 236,751 247,242 252,170 280,688 248,701 257,761 259,032 260,293 271,816 296,346

*Yukon, Northw est Territories, and Nunavut



Canada - Permanent residents by province or territory and category


Category 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Economic 44.1 47.7 54.0 58.8 57.4 69.2 66.2 67.7 60.8 55.2





Economic 85.9 90.0 91.0 95.9 92.4 87.3 83.3 92.3 84.5 85.0





Economic 70.9 69.0 69.3 69.9 65.9 69.4 66.6 73.2 73.0 61.7




Nova Scotia 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 71.3 73.0 78.3 81.3 74.9 81.3 75.7 83.8 78.7 56.5




New Brunswick 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 62.0 65.0 69.7 70.2 69.8 72.0 67.1 66.6 61.1 59.4




Quebec 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 48.2 53.3 51.3 58.9 51.7 49.6 46.0 53.2 55.0 41.0




Ontario 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 76.0 77.5 80.7 84.0 82.4 77.6 73.2 79.2 75.5 63.5




Manitoba 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 66.7 75.8 80.4 82.0 85.5 87.1 82.5 83.6 80.3 73.9




Saskatchewan 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 54.1 59.9 61.2 68.6 67.0 68.1 61.8 69.7 70.8 57.8




Alberta 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 60.0 65.3 62.5 69.9 63.0 61.0 54.5 61.5 62.0 53.3





Economic 44.7 61.7 61.7 78.3 74.6 75.2 74.4 75.9 71.5 59.3




Territories* 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Economic 55.4 60.3 60.9 66.6 62.8 62.4 57.2 63.5 62.7 52.6




Category not stated 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0


Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0




Canada - Permanent residents by province or territory and language ability

Number distribution

Language ability 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

English 1,777 1,953 1,812 1,813 1,554 1,654 1,792 1,942 2,492 3,679

French 19 27 22 18 26 13 18 18 13 56

Both French and English 138 202 132 139 132 114 120 97 110 24

Neither 589 469 422 425 429 558 599 612 777 1,515

Nova Scotia 2,523 2,651 2,388 2,395 2,141 2,339 2,529 2,669 3,392 5,274

English 951 1,099 1,066 1,164 1,165 1,394 1,253 1,887 1,671 2,399

French 64 90 80 65 109 110 85 90 123 249


Neither 499 536 569 729 523 569 544 697 626 1,868

New Brunswick 1,643 1,856 1,913 2,125 1,971 2,216 2,020 2,837 2,576 4,553

English 725 957 960 1,106 1,067 1,022 1,262 1,679 1,547 2,409

French 3 7 11 10 18 11 30 13 11 45


Neither 778 1,055 1,337 2,142 1,280 737 494 792 692 937

Other Atlantic Provinces* 1,538 2,081 2,365 3,306 2,425 1,831 1,834 2,531 2,300 3,399

English 8,283 8,458 7,977 7,830 8,654 8,794 7,384 7,654 9,917 15,536

French 10,758 10,592 11,632 14,336 13,863 14,237 13,099 12,235 13,095 20,879

Both French and English 16,513 16,704 20,079 20,816 18,924 19,664 16,725 17,208 14,083 3,912

Neither 9,646 9,440 9,800 11,002 10,259 12,330 14,804 13,147 11,785 11,994

Quebec 45,200 45,194 49,488 53,984 51,700 55,025 52,012 50,244 48,880 52,321

English 71,415 74,357 73,562 81,455 68,654 65,277 60,719 62,428 72,778 74,852

French 1,349 1,402 1,314 1,771 1,735 1,498 1,329 833 954 2,113

Both French and English 4,719 4,886 4,667 5,009 4,255 3,261 3,034 2,938 2,397 510

Neither 33,831 30,232 27,317 29,875 24,795 29,048 38,477 29,565 27,285 29,346

Ontario 111,314 110,877 106,860 118,110 99,439 99,084 103,559 95,764 103,414 106,821

English 5,809 6,353 8,331 10,065 10,720 8,827 8,843 11,683 11,005 11,280

French 182 98 135 127 182 185 187 137 157 235


Neither 4,811 4,600 4,841 5,311 4,775 3,974 3,808 4,141 3,409 4,554

Manitoba 10,954 11,217 13,521 15,808 15,963 13,308 13,106 16,231 14,843 16,179

English 1,973 2,855 4,299 5,048 6,399 7,625 7,671 9,211 9,803 11,190

French 32 29 20 36 32 91 36 39 59 126


Neither 1,438 1,855 2,436 2,422 2,374 3,283 2,844 2,445 2,387 2,985

Saskatchewan 3,516 4,835 6,890 7,615 8,955 11,173 10,681 11,830 12,509 14,332

English 13,178 16,834 19,050 23,806 22,815 25,714 24,720 32,493 38,071 37,976

French 269 285 309 318 319 369 325 283 317 597

Both French and English 904 862 1,041 1,027 936 958 750 898 786 165

Neither 6,509 6,220 6,614 7,502 6,880 9,030 10,814 8,823 7,938 9,232

Alberta 20,860 24,201 27,014 32,653 30,950 36,071 36,609 42,497 47,112 47,970

English 22,923 26,919 25,622 27,648 23,216 23,804 21,279 23,087 26,271 27,874

French 145 159 168 153 103 127 85 61 94 403

Both French and English 1,427 1,488 1,383 1,306 1,035 1,056 902 837 792 156

Neither 14,466 15,425 14,268 15,077 10,443 11,243 13,935 11,183 8,502 8,731


English 139 215 223 408 286 364 367 396 424 360

French 1 5 5 5 3 1 2 2 3 9


Neither 38 42 37 69 41 86 86 76 76 55

Territories** 190 287 290 506 346 467 477 494 514 427

English 127,173 140,000 142,902 160,343 144,530 144,475 135,290 152,460 173,979 187,555

French 12,822 12,694 13,696 16,839 16,390 16,642 15,196 13,711 14,826 24,712


Neither 72,605 69,874 67,641 74,554 61,799 70,858 86,405 71,481 63,477 71,217

Language ability not stated 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 521 7,834


Total 236,751 247,242 252,170 280,688 248,701 257,761 259,032 260,293 271,816 296,346

*New foundland and Labrador and Prince Edw ard Island **Yukon, Northw est Territories, and Nunavut



Canada - Permanent residents by province or territory and language ability



English 70.4 73.7 75.9 75.7 72.6 70.7 70.9 72.8 73.5 69.8

French 0.8 1.0 0.9 0.8 1.2 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.4 1.1

Both French and English 5.5 7.6 5.5 5.8 6.2 4.9 4.7 3.6 3.2 0.5

Neither 23.3 17.7 17.7 17.7 20.0 23.9 23.7 22.9 22.9 28.7

Nova Scotia 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

English 57.9 59.2 55.7 54.8 59.1 62.9 62.0 66.5 64.9 52.7

French 3.9 4.8 4.2 3.1 5.5 5.0 4.2 3.2 4.8 5.5


Neither 30.4 28.9 29.7 34.3 26.5 25.7 26.9 24.6 24.3 41.0

New Brunswick 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

English 47.1 46.0 40.6 33.5 44.0 55.8 68.8 66.3 67.3 70.9

French 0.2 0.3 0.5 0.3 0.7 0.6 1.6 0.5 0.5 1.3


Neither 50.6 50.7 56.5 64.8 52.8 40.3 26.9 31.3 30.1 27.6

Other Atlantic Provinces* 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

English 18.3 18.7 16.1 14.5 16.7 16.0 14.2 15.2 20.3 29.7

French 23.8 23.4 23.5 26.6 26.8 25.9 25.2 24.4 26.8 39.9


Neither 21.3 20.9 19.8 20.4 19.8 22.4 28.5 26.2 24.1 22.9

Quebec 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

English 64.2 67.1 68.8 69.0 69.0 65.9 58.6 65.2 70.4 70.1

French 1.2 1.3 1.2 1.5 1.7 1.5 1.3 0.9 0.9 2.0


Neither 30.4 27.3 25.6 25.3 24.9 29.3 37.2 30.9 26.4 27.5

Ontario 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

English 53.0 56.6 61.6 63.7 67.2 66.3 67.5 72.0 74.1 69.7

French 1.7 0.9 1.0 0.8 1.1 1.4 1.4 0.8 1.1 1.5


Neither 43.9 41.0 35.8 33.6 29.9 29.9 29.1 25.5 23.0 28.1

Manitoba 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

English 56.1 59.0 62.4 66.3 71.5 68.2 71.8 77.9 78.4 78.1

French 0.9 0.6 0.3 0.5 0.4 0.8 0.3 0.3 0.5 0.9


Neither 40.9 38.4 35.4 31.8 26.5 29.4 26.6 20.7 19.1 20.8

Saskatchewan 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

English 63.2 69.6 70.5 72.9 73.7 71.3 67.5 76.5 80.8 79.2

French 1.3 1.2 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.9 0.7 0.7 1.2


Neither 31.2 25.7 24.5 23.0 22.2 25.0 29.5 20.8 16.8 19.2

Alberta 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

English 58.8 61.2 61.8 62.6 66.7 65.7 58.8 65.6 73.7 75.0

French 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.3 1.1


Neither 37.1 35.1 34.4 34.1 30.0 31.0 38.5 31.8 23.8 23.5


English 73.2 74.9 76.9 80.6 82.7 77.9 76.9 80.2 82.5 84.3

French 0.5 1.7 1.7 1.0 0.9 0.2 0.4 0.4 0.6 2.1


Neither 20.0 14.6 12.8 13.6 11.8 18.4 18.0 15.4 14.8 12.9

Territories** 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

English 53.7 56.6 56.7 57.1 58.1 56.0 52.2 58.6 64.0 63.3

French 5.4 5.1 5.4 6.0 6.6 6.5 5.9 5.3 5.5 8.3


Neither 30.7 28.3 26.8 26.6 24.8 27.5 33.4 27.5 23.4 24.0

Language ability not stated 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 2.6


Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

*New foundland and Labrador and Prince Edw ard Island **Yukon, Northw est Territories, and Nunavut



Canada - Permanent residents by province or territory and source area

Number distribution

Source area 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Africa and the Middle East 158 164 171 244 160 180 250 288 424 421

Asia and Pacif ic 175 189 232 260 329 344 365 384 485 532


United States 26 56 43 49 36 48 47 43 33 36


Stateless 5 2 1 9 0 8 1 0 3 2




Asia and Pacif ic 706 1,150 1,405 2,162 1,203 687 590 1,267 805 1,610


United States 36 52 48 31 23 22 39 30 32 58


Stateless 5 0 1 3 3 7 0 2 1 0



Africa and the Middle East 746 848 789 709 580 596 678 747 1,112 2,188

Asia and Pacif ic 941 762 597 695 829 911 1,050 1,143 1,449 2,385


United States 206 290 210 151 131 183 157 152 140 179


Stateless 2 10 16 19 1 6 8 8 14 13


Nova Scotia 2,523 2,651 2,388 2,395 2,141 2,339 2,529 2,669 3,403 5,483

Africa and the Middle East 270 277 373 359 355 631 470 534 751 2,311

Asia and Pacif ic 838 1,014 966 1,148 972 1,057 971 1,780 1,335 1,667


United States 122 132 123 81 97 79 107 88 81 110


Stateless 2 7 1 4 1 2 5 9 0 2

New Brunswick 1,643 1,856 1,913 2,125 1,971 2,216 2,020 2,837 2,578 4,675


Asia and Pacif ic 7,400 7,990 7,809 8,409 8,912 9,881 9,363 7,643 8,370 10,769


United States 891 965 976 820 870 918 1,088 1,036 911 973


Stateless 100 54 70 68 72 52 68 89 58 32


Quebec 45,200 45,194 49,488 53,984 51,700 55,025 52,012 50,245 48,961 53,235


Asia and Pacif ic 60,175 59,684 56,288 63,618 52,075 55,286 56,670 52,423 60,180 55,959


United States 4,475 4,631 4,158 4,024 3,720 3,484 3,813 3,763 3,203 3,459


Stateless 443 392 355 439 341 300 287 367 470 529


Ontario 111,314 110,877 106,860 118,110 99,439 99,086 103,559 95,765 103,602 110,011


Asia and Pacif ic 5,973 5,933 8,335 10,493 11,043 8,623 8,110 10,861 9,013 8,822


United States 179 216 226 192 214 261 254 253 190 190


Stateless 4 9 15 22 16 15 13 28 18 11


Manitoba 10,954 11,217 13,521 15,808 15,963 13,308 13,106 16,231 14,900 16,820



Source area 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Africa and the Middle East 635 896 1,046 1,201 1,132 1,321 1,149 1,336 1,674 2,958

Asia and Pacif ic 1,723 2,475 4,191 4,710 6,590 8,330 7,794 8,549 8,530 9,686

Europe and the United Kingdom 843 1,081 1,293 1,290 779 986 1,179 1,351 1,700 1,455

United States 133 162 184 176 131 151 210 172 188 238


Stateless 7 6 6 5 14 5 7 9 3 6


Saskatchewan 3,516 4,835 6,890 7,615 8,955 11,173 10,681 11,830 12,518 14,855


Asia and Pacif ic 11,500 12,796 14,356 18,897 19,080 23,307 22,617 26,564 29,785 27,118


United States 858 1,140 1,011 955 1,028 1,101 1,256 1,309 1,182 1,352


Stateless 23 59 39 49 44 40 33 175 204 124


Alberta 20,860 24,201 27,014 32,653 30,950 36,071 36,609 42,497 47,199 49,196


Asia and Pacif ic 26,746 30,538 28,126 30,633 23,778 24,971 24,218 22,746 23,562 23,467


United States 2,509 2,515 2,000 1,631 1,404 1,609 1,502 1,631 1,545 1,795


Stateless 62 82 37 80 65 49 39 112 82 93




Asia and Pacif ic 94 140 176 367 241 343 340 348 371 273


United States 17 18 15 29 17 14 12 13 16 18


Territories* 190 287 290 506 346 467 477 494 515 432


Asia and Pacif ic 116,271 122,671 122,481 141,392 125,052 133,740 132,088 133,708 143,885 142,288


United States 9,452 10,177 8,994 8,139 7,671 7,870 8,485 8,490 7,521 8,408


Stateless 653 621 541 698 557 484 461 799 853 812



Total 236,751 247,242 252,170 280,688 248,701 257,761 259,032 260,293 271,816 296,346





Canada - Permanent residents by province or territory and source area


Source area 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016


Asia and Pacif ic 32.1 30.1 38.3 36.4 48.0 47.1 43.7 42.7 43.2 44.8


United States 4.8 8.9 7.1 6.9 5.3 6.6 5.6 4.8 2.9 3.0


Stateless 0.9 0.3 0.2 1.3 0.0 1.1 0.1 0.0 0.3 0.2




Asia and Pacif ic 71.2 79.1 79.9 83.4 69.1 62.5 59.1 77.6 67.6 69.6


United States 3.6 3.6 2.7 1.2 1.3 2.0 3.9 1.8 2.7 2.5


Stateless 0.5 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.6 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0




Asia and Pacif ic 37.3 28.7 25.0 29.0 38.7 38.9 41.5 42.8 42.6 43.5


United States 8.2 10.9 8.8 6.3 6.1 7.8 6.2 5.7 4.1 3.3


Stateless 0.1 0.4 0.7 0.8 0.0 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.2


Nova Scotia 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0


Asia and Pacif ic 51.0 54.6 50.5 54.0 49.3 47.7 48.1 62.7 51.8 35.7


United States 7.4 7.1 6.4 3.8 4.9 3.6 5.3 3.1 3.1 2.4


Stateless 0.1 0.4 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.0 0.0

New Brunswick 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0


Asia and Pacif ic 16.4 17.7 15.8 15.6 17.2 18.0 18.0 15.2 17.1 20.2


United States 2.0 2.1 2.0 1.5 1.7 1.7 2.1 2.1 1.9 1.8


Stateless 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1


Quebec 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0


Asia and Pacif ic 54.1 53.8 52.7 53.9 52.4 55.8 54.7 54.7 58.1 50.9


United States 4.0 4.2 3.9 3.4 3.7 3.5 3.7 3.9 3.1 3.1


Stateless 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.5


Ontario 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0


Asia and Pacif ic 54.5 52.9 61.6 66.4 69.2 64.8 61.9 66.9 60.5 52.4


United States 1.6 1.9 1.7 1.2 1.3 2.0 1.9 1.6 1.3 1.1


Stateless 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1


Manitoba 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0



Source area 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016


Asia and Pacif ic 49.0 51.2 60.8 61.9 73.6 74.6 73.0 72.3 68.1 65.2


United States 3.8 3.4 2.7 2.3 1.5 1.4 2.0 1.5 1.5 1.6


Stateless 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0


Saskatchewan 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0


Asia and Pacif ic 55.1 52.9 53.1 57.9 61.6 64.6 61.8 62.5 63.1 55.1


United States 4.1 4.7 3.7 2.9 3.3 3.1 3.4 3.1 2.5 2.7


Stateless 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.4 0.4 0.3


Alberta 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0


Asia and Pacif ic 68.6 69.4 67.9 69.3 68.3 68.9 66.9 64.7 65.9 61.6


United States 6.4 5.7 4.8 3.7 4.0 4.4 4.1 4.6 4.3 4.7


Stateless 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.2




Asia and Pacif ic 49.5 48.8 60.7 72.5 69.7 73.4 71.3 70.4 72.0 63.2


United States 8.9 6.3 5.2 5.7 4.9 3.0 2.5 2.6 3.1 4.2


Territories* 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0


Asia and Pacif ic 49.1 49.6 48.6 50.4 50.3 51.9 51.0 51.4 52.9 48.0


United States 4.0 4.1 3.6 2.9 3.1 3.1 3.3 3.3 2.8 2.8


Stateless 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3



Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0





Canada - Permanent residents 15 years of age or older by gender and marital status

Number distribution

Marital status 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Single 22,880 25,173 26,471 28,455 25,991 26,839 30,247 38,042 36,161 27,141

Married, common-law partner 70,926 73,613 73,472 79,926 69,976 72,562 71,632 68,008 70,359 85,093

Separated, divorced, w idow ed 5,528 5,599 6,012 6,107 5,490 6,858 8,768 6,660 6,386 7,287

Marital status not stated 6 2 3 4 10 15 35 29 79 271

Females 99,340 104,387 105,958 114,492 101,467 106,274 110,682 112,739 112,985 119,792

Single 29,875 29,828 31,272 33,806 30,666 33,592 34,830 40,108 42,582 33,269




Males 89,129 92,550 95,895 105,516 94,376 99,372 99,962 99,067 104,385 110,247

Single 52,755 55,001 57,743 62,261 56,657 60,431 65,077 78,150 78,743 60,410





Total 188,470 196,939 201,853 220,009 195,847 205,648 210,651 211,807 217,424 230,049


Marital status 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Single 23.0 24.1 25.0 24.9 25.6 25.3 27.3 33.7 32.0 22.7

Married, common-law partner 71.4 70.5 69.3 69.8 69.0 68.3 64.7 60.3 62.3 71.0

Separated, divorced, w idow ed 5.6 5.4 5.7 5.3 5.4 6.5 7.9 5.9 5.7 6.1

Marital status not stated 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2

Females 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Single 33.5 32.2 32.6 32.0 32.5 33.8 34.8 40.5 40.8 30.2




Males 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Single 28.0 27.9 28.6 28.3 28.9 29.4 30.9 36.9 36.2 26.3





Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0



Canada - Permanent residents by category and language ability

Number distribution


English 69,278 84,114 85,927 106,991 87,562 94,406 88,412 109,822 124,754 116,925

French 6,648 7,142 8,296 9,346 8,787 9,950 8,628 7,805 7,452 14,745


Neither 35,519 37,249 35,595 45,681 38,295 34,601 33,338 29,171 23,422 17,793

Not stated 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 85 2,505

Economic 131,264 149,098 153,514 186,938 156,099 160,744 148,252 165,198 170,375 156,000

English 40,880 43,079 43,550 38,937 39,374 36,038 34,151 31,831 34,792 49,089

French 3,072 3,466 3,402 4,936 4,658 3,770 4,042 3,932 4,212 6,141

Both French and English 3,187 3,279 3,387 3,065 2,904 2,678 3,306 3,138 2,957 662

Neither 25,000 22,070 21,643 18,615 14,399 27,382 41,876 28,746 23,401 20,347

Not stated 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 122 1,765


English 13,125 9,480 10,331 11,606 14,959 10,864 10,011 8,546 12,644 19,676

French 2,502 1,696 1,626 2,115 2,506 2,526 2,063 1,552 2,546 2,755

Both French and English 730 609 752 889 1,495 1,204 907 938 979 228

Neither 11,606 10,075 10,142 10,089 8,916 8,501 11,158 13,034 15,696 32,997

Not stated 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 248 3,256


English 3,926 3,373 3,094 2,811 2,639 3,172 2,718 2,275 1,825 1,886

French 600 390 372 442 444 396 464 422 619 1,075


Neither 490 485 261 169 193 383 34 542 1,011 111

Not stated 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 69 324


English 127,209 140,046 142,902 160,345 144,534 144,480 135,292 152,474 174,015 187,576

French 12,822 12,694 13,696 16,839 16,395 16,642 15,197 13,711 14,829 24,716


Neither 72,615 69,879 67,641 74,554 61,803 70,867 86,406 71,493 63,530 71,248

Not stated 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 524 7,850

Total 236,751 247,242 252,170 280,688 248,701 257,761 259,032 260,293 271,816 296,346



Canada - Permanent residents by category and language ability



English 52.8 56.4 56.0 57.2 56.1 58.7 59.6 66.5 73.2 75.0

French 5.1 4.8 5.4 5.0 5.6 6.2 5.8 4.7 4.4 9.5


Neither 27.1 25.0 23.2 24.4 24.5 21.5 22.5 17.7 13.7 11.4

Not stated 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.6

Economic 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

English 56.7 59.9 60.5 59.4 64.2 51.6 41.0 47.1 53.1 62.9

French 4.3 4.8 4.7 7.5 7.6 5.4 4.8 5.8 6.4 7.9


Neither 34.7 30.7 30.1 28.4 23.5 39.2 50.2 42.5 35.7 26.1

Not stated 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 2.3


English 46.9 43.4 45.2 47.0 53.7 47.0 41.5 35.5 39.4 33.4

French 8.9 7.8 7.1 8.6 9.0 10.9 8.5 6.4 7.9 4.7


Neither 41.5 46.1 44.4 40.8 32.0 36.8 46.2 54.2 48.9 56.0

Not stated 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.8 5.5


English 72.9 76.8 80.9 80.4 77.8 78.2 83.2 67.4 47.5 55.0

French 11.1 8.9 9.7 12.6 13.1 9.8 14.2 12.5 16.1 31.3


Neither 9.1 11.0 6.8 4.8 5.7 9.4 1.0 16.0 26.3 3.2

Not stated 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.8 9.4


English 53.7 56.6 56.7 57.1 58.1 56.1 52.2 58.6 64.0 63.3

French 5.4 5.1 5.4 6.0 6.6 6.5 5.9 5.3 5.5 8.3


Neither 30.7 28.3 26.8 26.6 24.9 27.5 33.4 27.5 23.4 24.0

Not stated 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 2.6

Category not stated 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0



Canada - Permanent residents by top languages reported as mother tongue

Number distribution

Mother Tongue 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Arabic 19,006 21,931 24,356 29,394 24,988 20,051 21,152 19,406 26,820 47,558

Tagalog 16,540 20,834 25,285 34,623 32,706 29,956 24,886 32,722 40,754 33,535

Chinese 32,593 35,354 33,990 35,512 32,176 35,408 36,695 26,897 21,453 29,527

English 26,613 28,746 27,533 25,921 22,842 30,202 24,557 26,076 25,215 26,767

Punjabi 14,281 14,315 15,682 16,856 12,799 14,322 16,483 17,406 16,616 16,393

French 8,304 8,334 9,274 9,968 8,792 13,045 11,857 10,065 11,199 11,926

Spanish 16,913 16,292 16,306 16,343 15,114 14,183 14,173 14,091 11,197 11,805

Urdu 8,896 7,899 6,456 6,225 6,561 8,877 11,143 8,442 10,346 10,419

Hindi 4,605 4,615 4,983 5,642 4,785 4,938 5,173 6,460 7,929 8,130

Farsi 7,280 6,730 6,643 7,663 7,707 7,595 11,328 16,842 12,069 6,826

Russian 7,293 6,697 7,268 6,939 5,442 5,036 5,802 4,840 5,189 6,239

Gujarati 5,182 4,193 3,563 3,872 3,199 3,985 4,613 4,866 5,165 4,936

Korean 5,983 7,378 5,930 5,615 4,671 5,293 4,525 4,463 4,098 4,009

Tigrinya 719 833 887 908 1,045 1,142 1,501 1,554 1,537 3,797

Bengali 3,271 3,370 2,500 5,126 2,996 2,861 4,130 2,768 3,812 3,789

Malayalam 1,099 1,256 1,439 2,726 2,396 2,948 2,905 2,889 3,291 3,435

Tamil 4,292 4,491 4,443 4,716 3,761 3,429 2,998 4,065 3,192 3,181

Creole 1,989 3,142 2,938 6,248 7,283 6,074 4,907 3,388 3,006 3,093

Ilocano 0 0 0 1 36 291 788 1,958 3,387 2,661

Portuguese 2,197 2,856 3,170 3,282 2,046 2,132 2,345 2,518 2,589 2,552

Ukrainian 1,379 1,351 1,584 2,261 1,700 1,410 1,786 1,864 1,754 2,526

Vietnamese 2,540 1,916 2,200 1,967 1,733 1,697 2,100 2,539 2,566 2,454

Telugu 1,052 1,016 946 1,103 1,251 1,185 1,127 2,017 2,124 2,296

Yoruba 1,074 836 1,331 1,616 1,299 1,362 1,731 1,667 1,884 2,093

Romanian 4,494 3,536 3,096 3,332 2,716 2,404 2,020 1,891 1,535 1,805

Top 25 languages 207,724 218,771 221,927 249,288 219,210 226,181 224,779 222,377 229,332 251,752

Other languages 29,027 28,471 30,243 31,400 29,491 31,580 34,253 37,916 42,484 44,594

Total 236,751 247,242 252,170 280,688 248,701 257,761 259,032 260,293 271,816 296,346

Note: Top 25 totals are based on the top 25 languages of the specif ied year



Canada - Permanent residents by top languages reported as mother tongue


Mother Tongue 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Arabic 8.0 8.9 9.7 10.5 10.0 7.8 8.2 7.5 9.9 16.0

Tagalog 7.0 8.4 10.0 12.3 13.2 11.6 9.6 12.6 15.0 11.3

Chinese 13.8 14.3 13.5 12.7 12.9 13.7 14.2 10.3 7.9 10.0

English 11.2 11.6 10.9 9.2 9.2 11.7 9.5 10.0 9.3 9.0

Punjabi 6.0 5.8 6.2 6.0 5.1 5.6 6.4 6.7 6.1 5.5

French 3.5 3.4 3.7 3.6 3.5 5.1 4.6 3.9 4.1 4.0

Spanish 7.1 6.6 6.5 5.8 6.1 5.5 5.5 5.4 4.1 4.0

Urdu 3.8 3.2 2.6 2.2 2.6 3.4 4.3 3.2 3.8 3.5

Hindi 1.9 1.9 2.0 2.0 1.9 1.9 2.0 2.5 2.9 2.7

Farsi 3.1 2.7 2.6 2.7 3.1 2.9 4.4 6.5 4.4 2.3

Russian 3.1 2.7 2.9 2.5 2.2 2.0 2.2 1.9 1.9 2.1

Gujarati 2.2 1.7 1.4 1.4 1.3 1.5 1.8 1.9 1.9 1.7

Korean 2.5 3.0 2.4 2.0 1.9 2.1 1.7 1.7 1.5 1.4

Tigrinya 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.6 0.6 1.3

Bengali 1.4 1.4 1.0 1.8 1.2 1.1 1.6 1.1 1.4 1.3

Malayalam 0.5 0.5 0.6 1.0 1.0 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.2 1.2

Tamil 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.7 1.5 1.3 1.2 1.6 1.2 1.1

Creole 0.8 1.3 1.2 2.2 2.9 2.4 1.9 1.3 1.1 1.0

Ilocano 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.8 1.2 0.9

Portuguese 0.9 1.2 1.3 1.2 0.8 0.8 0.9 1.0 1.0 0.9

Ukrainian 0.6 0.5 0.6 0.8 0.7 0.5 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.9

Vietnamese 1.1 0.8 0.9 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.8 1.0 0.9 0.8

Telugu 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.8 0.8 0.8

Yoruba 0.5 0.3 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.7 0.6 0.7 0.7

Romanian 1.9 1.4 1.2 1.2 1.1 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.6

Top 25 languages 87.7 88.5 88.0 88.8 88.1 87.7 86.8 85.4 84.4 85.0

Other languages 12.3 11.5 12.0 11.2 11.9 12.3 13.2 14.6 15.6 15.0

Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Note: Top 25 totals are based on the top 25 languages of the specif ied year



Canada - Permanent residents by labour market intention, occupation and skill level

Number distribution

Occupational skill level 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

00 - Senior management occupations 973 1,478 1,543 1,697 1,226 980 664 558 711 836

01-05 - Specialized middle management occupations 4,484 5,370 5,465 7,456 6,170 5,230 4,927 4,324 4,744 5,057

06 - Middle management occupations in retail and w holesale trade and customer services 889 1,210 1,198 1,635 1,491 2,001 1,651 1,584 1,368 1,588

07-09 - Middle management occupations in trades, transportation, production and utilities 595 780 758 1,006 956 840 869 842 904 960

Other 1,951 2,465 2,789 3,191 3,179 3,002 2,220 2,329 1,266 1,309

Level 0 - Managerial 8,892 11,303 11,753 14,985 13,022 12,053 10,331 9,637 8,993 9,750

11 - Professional occupations in business and f inance 3,514 3,706 3,758 4,426 4,278 4,980 4,452 3,974 4,794 5,074

21 - Professional occupations in natural and applied sciences 10,778 11,155 9,784 9,162 8,355 9,967 9,355 12,339 13,335 11,995

30 - Professional occupations in nursing 815 1,019 1,188 2,556 3,074 2,842 2,565 2,032 1,829 1,953

31 - Professional occupations in health (except nursing) 2,411 2,778 2,918 4,165 3,653 5,238 3,970 2,925 2,132 1,989

40 - Professional occupations in education services 5,257 6,117 6,020 8,650 6,371 5,367 4,967 4,016 2,989 2,463

41 - Professional occupations in law and social, community and government services 2,206 2,318 2,219 2,147 2,102 3,219 2,510 2,174 1,677 1,736

51 - Professional occupations in art and culture 1,251 1,273 1,129 1,009 918 853 587 733 591 814

Other 1,383 592 252 133 102 54 20 0 0 0

Level A - Professionals 27,615 28,958 27,268 32,248 28,853 32,520 28,426 28,193 27,347 26,024

07-09 - Middle management occupations in trades, transportation, production and utilities 208 285 422 397 738 607 262 151 139 104

12 - Administrative and f inancial supervisors and administrative occupations 2,656 3,064 3,300 3,130 2,596 2,766 2,335 3,023 2,839 3,274

13 - Finance, insurance and related business administrative occupations 470 704 852 781 758 1,017 772 999 631 543

22 - Technical occupations related to natural and applied sciences 3,516 3,725 3,664 3,527 2,995 2,918 2,566 3,848 3,897 4,109

32 - Technical occupations in health 933 822 764 895 907 1,417 955 1,156 1,072 858

41 - Professional occupations in law and social, community and government services 8 15 9 10 12 19 16 10 9 4

42 - Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and education services 672 725 708 681 711 889 648 820 773 998

43 - Occupations in front-line public protection services 128 194 201 196 184 140 98 62 49 52

52 - Technical occupations in art, culture, recreation and sport 1,056 1,213 1,162 1,010 1,017 1,161 875 1,168 987 1,185

62 - Retail sales supervisors and specialized sales occupations 1,186 1,290 1,256 1,161 1,100 1,100 1,084 1,834 1,625 1,672

63 - Service supervisors and specialized service occupations 1,219 1,455 1,940 2,454 2,629 3,983 3,851 5,311 6,323 4,972

72 - Industrial, electrical and construction trades 1,817 2,208 2,670 3,044 2,737 2,814 2,400 2,804 2,865 2,755

73 - Maintenance and equipment operation trades 837 872 1,043 1,099 989 1,258 1,051 1,024 913 934

82 - Supervisors and technical occupations in natural resources, agriculture and related production 147 247 387 321 244 362 405 417 383 557

92 - Processing, manufacturing and utilities supervisors and central control operators 183 227 262 356 298 282 295 336 191 205

Level B - Skilled and Technical 15,036 17,046 18,640 19,062 17,915 20,733 17,613 22,963 22,696 22,222

12 - Administrative and f inancial supervisors and administrative occupations 12 14 14 14 10 17 12 12 5 7

14 - Office support occupations 1,078 1,143 1,391 1,471 1,482 1,573 1,195 985 833 681

15 - Distribution, tracking and scheduling co-ordination occupations 141 203 220 262 242 329 309 238 164 177

34 - Assisting occupations in support of health services 189 257 278 350 428 376 330 312 282 294

43 - Occupations in front-line public protection services 10 13 12 21 37 41 12 6 5 2

44 - Care providers and educational, legal and public protection support occupations 2,933 4,990 4,719 4,667 3,602 2,454 2,178 1,653 929 684

63 - Service supervisors and specialized service occupations 9 5 8 19 18 14 9 9 5 3

64 - Sales representatives and salespersons - w holesale and retail trade 659 711 807 815 786 893 701 557 513 303

65 - Service representatives and other customer and personal services occupations 794 888 1,052 1,310 1,479 1,657 1,328 1,112 868 805

74 - Other installers, repairers and servicers and material handlers 69 77 84 92 79 76 159 202 115 134

75 - Transport and heavy equipment operation and related maintenance occupations 551 721 918 824 861 780 692 653 668 676

84 - Workers in natural resources, agriculture and related production 104 102 67 94 165 263 191 122 144 91

92 - Processing, manufacturing and utilities supervisors and central control operators 4 6 11 10 6 8 5 5 3 0

94 - Processing and manufacturing machine operators and related production w orkers 446 475 678 880 767 614 493 521 488 425

95 - Assemblers in manufacturing 125 190 170 178 164 182 143 135 120 84

Other 47 48 35 20 11 6 4 2 0 0

Level C - Intermediate and Clerical 7,171 9,843 10,464 11,027 10,137 9,283 7,761 6,524 5,142 4,366

65 - Service representatives and other customer and personal services occupations 66 59 73 80 114 93 67 44 46 31

66 - Sales support occupations 90 116 117 117 197 346 314 249 176 90

67 - Service support and other service occupations, n.e.c. 102 164 422 928 1,452 2,166 1,870 1,621 1,759 1,686

76 - Trades helpers, construction labourers and related occupations 199 251 213 231 187 189 110 61 54 62

86 - Harvesting, landscaping and natural resources labourers 7 9 10 10 9 18 26 14 10 12

96 - Labourers in processing, manufacturing and utilities 192 151 272 418 653 576 235 155 132 205

Other 21 33 22 26 10 8 6 2 0 0

Level D - Elemental and Labourers 677 783 1,129 1,810 2,622 3,396 2,628 2,146 2,177 2,086

Occupation skill level identified 59,391 67,933 69,254 79,132 72,549 77,985 66,759 69,463 66,355 64,448

New Workers (15 Years of Age or Older) 64,714 61,672 64,682 71,590 63,085 68,185 78,632 91,437 103,239 118,998

Intending to work 124,105 129,605 133,936 150,722 135,634 146,170 145,391 160,900 169,594 183,446

Others Non-Workers (15 Years of Age or Older) 55,396 57,820 56,178 62,593 52,483 47,217 37,932 34,073 33,094 34,656

Retired (15 Years of Age or Older) 6,392 7,007 7,810 7,248 6,991 11,960 26,834 14,316 11,578 14,592

Students (15 Years of Age or Older) 50,214 52,447 53,863 59,750 53,400 52,208 48,755 50,957 57,469 63,543

Not intending to work 112,002 117,274 117,851 129,591 112,874 111,385 113,521 99,346 102,141 112,791

Not stated 644 363 383 375 193 206 120 47 81 109

Not stated 644 363 383 375 193 206 120 47 81 109

Labour market intention not stated 644 363 383 375 193 206 120 47 81 109

Total 236,751 247,242 252,170 280,688 248,701 257,761 259,032 260,293 271,816 296,346



Canada - Permanent residents by labour market intention, occupation and skill level



00 - Senior management occupations 0.4 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.3

01-05 - Specialized middle management occupations 1.9 2.2 2.2 2.7 2.5 2.0 1.9 1.7 1.7 1.7

06 - Middle management occupations in retail and w holesale trade and customer services 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.8 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.5

07-09 - Middle management occupations in trades, transportation, production and utilities 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3

Other 0.8 1.0 1.1 1.1 1.3 1.2 0.9 0.9 0.5 0.4

Level 0 - Managerial 3.8 4.6 4.7 5.3 5.2 4.7 4.0 3.7 3.3 3.3

11 - Professional occupations in business and f inance 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.9 1.7 1.5 1.8 1.7

21 - Professional occupations in natural and applied sciences 4.6 4.5 3.9 3.3 3.4 3.9 3.6 4.7 4.9 4.0

30 - Professional occupations in nursing 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.9 1.2 1.1 1.0 0.8 0.7 0.7

31 - Professional occupations in health (except nursing) 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.5 1.5 2.0 1.5 1.1 0.8 0.7

40 - Professional occupations in education services 2.2 2.5 2.4 3.1 2.6 2.1 1.9 1.5 1.1 0.8

41 - Professional occupations in law and social, community and government services 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.8 0.8 1.2 1.0 0.8 0.6 0.6

51 - Professional occupations in art and culture 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.3

Other 0.6 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Level A - Professionals 11.7 11.7 10.8 11.5 11.6 12.6 11.0 10.8 10.1 8.8

07-09 - Middle management occupations in trades, transportation, production and utilities 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0

12 - Administrative and f inancial supervisors and administrative occupations 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.1 1.0 1.1 0.9 1.2 1.0 1.1

13 - Finance, insurance and related business administrative occupations 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.2

22 - Technical occupations related to natural and applied sciences 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.3 1.2 1.1 1.0 1.5 1.4 1.4

32 - Technical occupations in health 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3

41 - Professional occupations in law and social, community and government services 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

42 - Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and education services 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3

43 - Occupations in front-line public protection services 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

52 - Technical occupations in art, culture, recreation and sport 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4

62 - Retail sales supervisors and specialized sales occupations 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.7 0.6 0.6

63 - Service supervisors and specialized service occupations 0.5 0.6 0.8 0.9 1.1 1.5 1.5 2.0 2.3 1.7

72 - Industrial, electrical and construction trades 0.8 0.9 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 0.9 1.1 1.1 0.9

73 - Maintenance and equipment operation trades 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3

82 - Supervisors and technical occupations in natural resources, agriculture and related production 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2

92 - Processing, manufacturing and utilities supervisors and central control operators 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

Level B - Skilled and Technical 6.4 6.9 7.4 6.8 7.2 8.0 6.8 8.8 8.3 7.5

12 - Administrative and f inancial supervisors and administrative occupations 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

14 - Office support occupations 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2

15 - Distribution, tracking and scheduling co-ordination occupations 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

34 - Assisting occupations in support of health services 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1

43 - Occupations in front-line public protection services 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

44 - Care providers and educational, legal and public protection support occupations 1.2 2.0 1.9 1.7 1.4 1.0 0.8 0.6 0.3 0.2

63 - Service supervisors and specialized service occupations 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

64 - Sales representatives and salespersons - w holesale and retail trade 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1

65 - Service representatives and other customer and personal services occupations 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.3

74 - Other installers, repairers and servicers and material handlers 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0

75 - Transport and heavy equipment operation and related maintenance occupations 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2

84 - Workers in natural resources, agriculture and related production 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0

92 - Processing, manufacturing and utilities supervisors and central control operators 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

94 - Processing and manufacturing machine operators and related production w orkers 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1

95 - Assemblers in manufacturing 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0

Other 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Level C - Intermediate and Clerical 3.0 4.0 4.1 3.9 4.1 3.6 3.0 2.5 1.9 1.5

65 - Service representatives and other customer and personal services occupations 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

66 - Sales support occupations 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0

67 - Service support and other service occupations, n.e.c. 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.6 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.6

76 - Trades helpers, construction labourers and related occupations 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

86 - Harvesting, landscaping and natural resources labourers 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

96 - Labourers in processing, manufacturing and utilities 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1

Other 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Level D - Elemental and Labourers 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.6 1.1 1.3 1.0 0.8 0.8 0.7

Occupation skill level identified 25.1 27.5 27.5 28.2 29.2 30.3 25.8 26.7 24.4 21.7

New Workers (15 Years of Age or Older) 27.3 24.9 25.7 25.5 25.4 26.5 30.4 35.1 38.0 40.2

Intending to work 52.4 52.4 53.1 53.7 54.5 56.7 56.1 61.8 62.4 61.9

Others Non-Workers (15 Years of Age or Older) 23.4 23.4 22.3 22.3 21.1 18.3 14.6 13.1 12.2 11.7

Retired (15 Years of Age or Older) 2.7 2.8 3.1 2.6 2.8 4.6 10.4 5.5 4.3 4.9

Students (15 Years of Age or Older) 21.2 21.2 21.4 21.3 21.5 20.3 18.8 19.6 21.1 21.4

Not intending to work 47.3 47.4 46.7 46.2 45.4 43.2 43.8 38.2 37.6 38.1

Not stated 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Not stated 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Labour market intention not stated 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0



Number distribution


0 - Managerial 1,111 1,454 1,421 1,962 1,478 1,318 1,142 721 928 1,483

A - Professionals 7,253 7,952 7,559 10,268 8,770 9,370 8,508 6,795 6,494 6,705

B - Skilled and Technical 3,476 4,082 3,802 3,601 2,412 2,933 2,221 2,080 2,167 2,627

C - Intermediate and Clerical 756 847 922 1,042 832 708 560 411 291 282

D - Elemental and Labourers 5 13 5 20 22 24 19 8 4 1

Skill level not stated* 559 439 695 809 749 1,031 817 1,270 1,367 1,113

Females 13,160 14,787 14,404 17,702 14,263 15,384 13,267 11,285 11,251 12,211

0 - Managerial 3,301 4,169 4,063 6,105 4,537 3,629 3,614 2,241 2,211 2,698

A - Professionals 15,697 15,593 13,347 15,426 11,132 11,921 10,884 9,032 10,908 9,838


C - Intermediate and Clerical 872 994 1,194 1,375 970 818 701 515 406 291


Skill level not stated* 1,119 605 997 1,347 913 1,075 1,000 1,888 2,072 1,357

Males 27,944 28,500 26,237 31,003 22,391 22,841 20,738 17,492 19,152 17,799

0 - Managerial 4,412 5,623 5,484 8,067 6,015 4,947 4,756 2,962 3,139 4,181

A - Professionals 22,950 23,545 20,906 25,694 19,902 21,291 19,392 15,827 17,402 16,543


C - Intermediate and Clerical 1,628 1,841 2,116 2,417 1,802 1,526 1,261 926 697 573


Skill level not stated* 1,678 1,044 1,692 2,156 1,662 2,106 1,817 3,158 3,439 2,470


Total 41,104 43,287 40,641 48,705 36,654 38,225 34,006 28,777 30,403 30,011



0 - Managerial 8.4 9.8 9.9 11.1 10.4 8.6 8.6 6.4 8.2 12.1

A - Professionals 55.1 53.8 52.5 58.0 61.5 60.9 64.1 60.2 57.7 54.9

B - Skilled and Technical 26.4 27.6 26.4 20.3 16.9 19.1 16.7 18.4 19.3 21.5

C - Intermediate and Clerical 5.7 5.7 6.4 5.9 5.8 4.6 4.2 3.6 2.6 2.3

D - Elemental and Labourers 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0

Skill level not stated* 4.2 3.0 4.8 4.6 5.3 6.7 6.2 11.3 12.2 9.1

Females 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

0 - Managerial 11.8 14.6 15.5 19.7 20.3 15.9 17.4 12.8 11.5 15.2

A - Professionals 56.2 54.7 50.9 49.8 49.7 52.2 52.5 51.6 57.0 55.3





Males 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

0 - Managerial 10.7 13.0 13.5 16.6 16.4 12.9 14.0 10.3 10.3 13.9

A - Professionals 55.8 54.4 51.4 52.8 54.3 55.7 57.0 55.0 57.2 55.1






Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

*Includes new w orkers and industrial codes

Canada - Skilled workers 15 years of age or older intending to work by gender and

occupational skill level (principal applicants)



Glossary of terms and concepts

Age: Five age groups are shown: 0 to 14 years, 15 to 24 years, 25 to 44 years, 45 to 64 years, and 65 years or older. Age refers to age at landing for permanent residents. Blended Sponsorship Refugees: permanent residents in the refugee category who were identified for resettlement by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and matched with private sponsors in Canada, and who receive resettlement assistance from the federal government. This is a three-way partnership with the Government of Canada, the UNHCR, and private sponsors who are Sponsorship Agreement Holders (SAHs). Business immigrants: Permanent residents in the economic immigrant category selected on the basis of their ability to establish themselves economically in Canada through entrepreneurial activity, self-employment or direct investment. Business immigrants include entrepreneurs, self-employed people and investors. The spouse or common-law partner and the dependent children of the business immigrant are also included in this category. Canadian Experience Class (CEC): This immigration category became effective in September 17, 2008. This is a prescribed class of persons who may become permanent residents on the basis of their Canadian experience. They must intend to reside in a province or territory other than Quebec and must have maintained temporary resident status during their qualifying period of work experience as well as during any period of full-time study or training in Canada. Caregivers: Persons granted permanent resident status after providing, in Canada and for a determinate period of time, home child care or care for people with care needs such as the elderly, people with disabilities or people with chronic disease. Category: Immigration categories are shown for the three main groups of permanent residents—sponsored family class, economic immigrants, and refugees—as well as for “other” immigrants who do not qualify in any of these categories. On an exceptional basis, the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act gives Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada the authority to grant permanent resident status to individuals who would not otherwise qualify in any category—for example, in cases where there are strong humanitarian and compassionate considerations. In reference to labour market characteristics, the economic immigrant category is further divided into two subgroups: principal applicants, and spouse and dependants. Economic immigrants: Permanent residents selected for their skills and ability to contribute to Canada's economy. The economic immigrant category includes skilled workers, business immigrants, provincial or territorial nominees, caregivers and Canadian Experience Class. Entrepreneurs: Economic immigrants in the business immigrant category who were selected on the condition that they had managed and controlled a percentage of equity of a qualifying business for at least two years in the period beginning five years before they applied, and that they had a legally obtained net worth of at least CAN$300,000. They must own and manage a qualifying business in Canada for at least one year in the three years following arrival in Canada. Government-assisted refugees: Permanent residents in the refugee category who are selected abroad for resettlement to Canada as Convention refugees under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act or as members of the Convention Refugees Abroad Class, and who receive resettlement assistance from the federal government. Humanitarian and Compassionate Class: Permanent residents included with other immigrants who are sponsored humanitarian and compassionate class outside the sponsored family class, humanitarian and compassionate cases without sponsorship, and cases that take into account public policy. On an exceptional basis, the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act gives Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada the authority to grant permanent resident status to individuals and families who would not otherwise qualify in any category, in cases where there are strong humanitarian and compassionate (H&C) considerations, or for public policy reasons. The purpose of these discretionary provisions is to provide the flexibility to approve deserving cases not anticipated in the legislation. Immigration Act (1976): Federal legislation respecting immigration to Canada. The Immigration Act of 1976 became law in 1978 and remained in effect until 2002. Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA): Federal legislation respecting immigration to Canada and the granting of refugee protection to people who are displaced, persecuted or in danger. IRPA received royal assent on November 1, 2001 and came into effect on June 28, 2002.



Investors: Economic immigrants in the business immigrant category who were required to make a substantial investment in Canada that was allocated to participating provinces and territories for economic development and job creation. Language ability: Four categories of language ability in one of Canada’s official languages are shown for permanent residents: English only, French only, both French and English, and neither language. These are self-declared indicators of knowledge of an official language. Marital status: The marital status of an individual upon entering Canada (single, married, common-law, separated, divorced, or widowed). Mother tongue: The native (first) language of an individual upon entering Canada. In this publication, the top 25 languages reported as mother tongue appear in decreasing order based on the most recent year. National occupational classification (NOC): The National Occupational Classification (NOC) is the nationally accepted categorization of occupations in Canada. It organizes over 40,000 job titles into 500 occupational group descriptions. The NOC provides a standardized framework for organizing the world of work in a coherent system. It is used to manage the collection and reporting of occupational statistics and to provide understandable labour market information. http://noc.esdc.gc.ca/English/home.aspx Occupational skill level: Five skill levels, based on the National Occupational Classification, are shown for permanent residents 15 years of age or older as well as for temporary foreign workers.

Level O (managerial): management occupations.

Level A (professional): professional occupations in business and finance; natural and applied sciences; health;

social science, education, government service, and religion; and art and culture. Educational or training

requirements: university degree.

Level B (skilled and technical): skilled or technical occupations in administration and business; natural and

applied sciences; health; law, social service, education, and religion; art, culture, recreation and sport; sales and

service; as well as trades and skilled transport and equipment operators; skilled occupations in primary industries;

and processing, manufacturing and utilities supervisors and skilled operators. Educational or training

requirements: two to three years of post-secondary education, or two to five years of apprenticeship training, or

three to four years of secondary school and more than two years of on-the-job training, occupation-specific

training courses or specific work experience.

Level C (intermediate and clerical): clerical occupations; assisting occupations in health services; intermediate

occupations in sales and services; transport, equipment operations, installation and maintenance; primary

industries; as well as processing and manufacturing machine operators and assemblers. Educational or training

requirements: one to four years of secondary school education, or up to two years of on-the-job training, training

courses or specific work experience.

Level D (elemental and labourers): elemental sales and service occupations and labourers in construction;

primary industries; and processing, manufacturing and utilities. Educational or training requirements: no formal

educational requirements; short work demonstration or on-the-job training.

Other immigrants: Permanent residents in the other immigrant category include post-determination refugee claimants in Canada, deferred removal orders, retirees (no longer designated under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act), temporary resident permit holders, humanitarian and compassionate cases, sponsored humanitarian and compassionate cases outside the sponsored family class, and people granted permanent resident status based on public policy considerations. Permanent residents: People who have been granted permanent resident status in Canada. Permanent residents must live in Canada for at least 730 days (two years) within a five-year period or risk losing their status. Permanent residents have all the rights guaranteed under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms such as equality rights, legal rights, and mobility rights, freedom of religion, freedom of expression and freedom of association. They do not, however, have the right to vote in elections. Principal applicants: Permanent residents identified as the principal applicant on their application for a permanent resident visa for themselves and, if applicable, for accompanying spouse and/or dependants when they apply to immigrate to Canada. For individuals or families applying to immigrate to Canada in the skilled worker category, only the principal applicant is assessed on the basis of selection criteria in place at the time of the application.

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Privately sponsored refugees: Permanent residents in the refugee category who are selected for resettlement in the Convention refugees abroad class, the source country class or the country of asylum class and who are privately sponsored by organizations, individuals or groups of individuals. Province or territory: The province or territory of intended destination in Canada. http://geodepot.statcan.ca/Diss/Reference/COGG/Index_e.cfm Provincial or territorial nominees: Economic immigrants selected by a province or territory for specific skills that will contribute to the local economy to meet specific labour market needs. The Regulations establish a provincial or territorial nominee class, allowing provinces and territories that have agreements with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada to nominate persons to go to that province. A nominee must meet federal admissibility requirements, such as those related to health and security. Resettled Refugees and Protected Persons in Canada: Permanent residents in the refugee category include government-assisted refugees, privately sponsored refugees, blended sponsorship refugees, and protected persons in Canada. Self-employed: Economic immigrants in the business immigrant category selected on the condition that they can, and intend to, create their own employment in Canada and contribute significantly either to the Canadian economy or to the cultural or athletic life of Canada (for example, as farmers, artists, actors, writers or professional athletes). Skilled workers: Economic immigrants selected for their ability to participate in the labour market and to establish themselves economically in Canada. Skilled workers are assessed on the basis of selection criteria that stress, for example, education, language ability and skilled work experience. Start-up Business: Economic immigrants in the business immigrant category who were selected as immigrant entrepreneurs with the skills and potential to build innovative businesses in Canada that can create jobs for Canadians and compete on a global scale. Source area: Five major world regions are shown: Africa and the Middle East, Asia and Pacific, South America and Central America, the United States, and Europe and the United Kingdom. Source country: Refers to the country of citizenship for all permanent residents unless otherwise indicated. Sponsored family class: Permanent residents sponsored by a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident living in Canada who is 18 years of age or over. Sponsored family class immigrants include spouses and partners (i.e., spouse, common-law partner or conjugal partner); parents and grandparents; and others (i.e., dependent children, children under the age of 18 whom the sponsor intends to adopt in Canada, brothers, sisters, nephews, nieces, and grandchildren who are orphans under 18 years of age, or any other relative if the sponsor has no relative as described above, either abroad or in Canada). Fiancés are no longer designated as a component of the sponsored family class under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. Spouse and dependants: Permanent residents who are the spouse, common-law or conjugal partner, or dependent children of the principal applicant and listed as such on the application. Urban area: Refers to selected urban areas in Canada that are the intended destination for permanent and temporary residents. A census metropolitan area (CMA) or a census agglomeration (CA) is formed by one or more adjacent neighbouring municipalities centred on a large urban area (known as the urban core). A CMA must have a total population of at least 100,000 of which 50,000 or more must live in the urban core. A CA must have an urban core population of at least 10,000. To be included in the CMA or CA, other adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the central urban area, as measured by commuting flows derived from census place of work data. http://geodepot.statcan.ca/Diss/Reference/COGG/Index_e.cfm Census metropolitan areas include:

Newfoundland and Labrador

o St. John’s

Nova Scotia

o Halifax

New Brunswick

o Saint John

Québec

o Montréal

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o Chicoutimi-Jonquière

o Ottawa-Gatineau (Québec part)

o Sherbrooke

o Trois-Rivières

Manitoba

o Winnipeg

Saskatchewan

o Regina

o Saskatoon

Ontario

o Hamilton

o Kingston

o Kitchener

o London

o Greater Sudbury

o Oshawa

o Ottawa-Gatineau (Ontario part)

o St. Catharines-Niagara

o Thunder Bay

o Toronto

o Windsor

Alberta

o Calgary

o Edmonton

British Columbia

o Abbotsford

o Vancouver

o Victoria

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