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Facts and figures 2008 – Immigration overview:
Permanent and temporary residents

Permanent residents

Canada – Permanent residents by province or territory and category

Number
Urban area 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Family class 332 319 440 358 423 518 461 510 436 532
Economic immigrants 1,006 1,021 988 765 734 1,000 1,223 1,774 1,790 1,828
Refugees 257 268 268 224 193 199 202 217 180 193
Other immigrants 0 0 2 72 124 54 43 85 117 98
Nova Scotia 1,595 1,608 1,698 1,419 1,474 1,771 1,929 2,586 2,523 2,651
Family class 168 148 197 174 179 238 244 249 256 291
Economic immigrants 344 343 371 348 292 349 649 1,191 1,171 1,358
Refugees 148 266 230 156 146 174 181 178 174 165
Other immigrants 0 1 0 27 49 34 17 28 42 45
New Brunswick 660 758 798 705 666 795 1,091 1,646 1,643 1,859
Family class 106 126 117 99 106 145 126 156 162 221
Economic immigrants 237 234 203 212 195 521 461 695 1,093 1,609
Refugees 214 246 207 184 169 196 217 204 256 208
Other immigrants 2 0 0 17 43 27 23 18 27 45
Other Atlantic provinces* 559 606 527 512 513 889 827 1,073 1,538 2,083
Family class 7,567 7,978 8,495 7,378 8,057 8,630 8,356 9,224 8,523 9,141
Economic immigrants 14,003 16,358 21,934 23,047 23,554 26,669 26,294 25,953 28,026 29,375
Refugees 7,335 8,051 7,140 6,439 6,183 7,383 7,165 7,104 5,934 4,522
Other immigrants 245 112 27 717 1,761 1,563 1,500 2,404 2,717 2,173
Category not stated 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Quebec 29,150 32,499 37,597 37,581 39,555 44,245 43,315 44,685 45,201 45,212
Family class 30,395 35,021 39,152 36,968 37,867 35,009 35,029 38,347 35,534 33,801
Economic immigrants 61,155 83,081 95,090 82,133 63,176 67,603 79,559 62,616 53,684 59,137
Refugees 11,971 15,137 14,249 12,620 13,738 18,341 21,892 18,704 15,516 11,860
Other immigrants 645 272 150 1,867 4,940 4,141 4,043 6,223 6,581 6,097
Category not stated 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 1
Ontario 104,166 133,511 148,641 133,588 119,722 125,094 140,525 125,892 111,315 110,896
Family class 1,028 1,065 1,096 880 1,043 1,117 1,192 1,332 1,320 1,384
Economic immigrants 1,918 2,547 2,337 2,677 4,079 4,999 5,724 7,376 8,328 8,697
Refugees 778 1,022 1,158 976 1,234 1,252 1,094 1,238 1,170 972
Other immigrants 1 1 0 82 147 58 86 101 136 168
Manitoba 3,725 4,635 4,591 4,615 6,503 7,426 8,096 10,047 10,954 11,221
Family class 452 411 402 363 412 456 456 477 514 549
Economic immigrants 767 823 714 652 675 883 1,018 1,582 2,346 3,666
Refugees 509 648 588 601 501 560 614 626 617 552
Other immigrants 0 0 0 51 80 44 31 39 39 69
Saskatchewan 1,728 1,882 1,704 1,667 1,668 1,943 2,119 2,724 3,516 4,836
Family class 4,182 4,480 4,971 4,617 5,376 5,184 5,671 6,678 6,790 7,133
Economic immigrants 6,601 8,003 9,555 7,981 7,823 8,741 11,130 11,219 11,276 14,503
Refugees 1,289 1,875 1,879 1,797 1,982 2,210 2,248 2,334 2,216 1,845
Other immigrants 23 6 0 388 658 340 355 485 579 714
Alberta 12,095 14,364 16,405 14,783 15,839 16,475 19,404 20,716 20,861 24,195
Family class 10,989 10,975 11,824 11,405 11,571 10,869 11,723 13,459 12,612 12,419
Economic immigrants 23,127 23,811 24,432 19,992 20,445 22,936 30,199 25,740 23,391 28,679
Refugees 1,896 2,574 2,199 2,106 1,827 2,367 2,159 1,891 1,883 1,532
Other immigrants 111 68 27 554 1,386 856 689 993 1,071 1,320
British Columbia 36,123 37,428 38,482 34,057 35,229 37,028 44,770 42,083 38,957 43,950
Family class 57 93 81 48 76 95 103 76 83 92
Economic immigrants 87 61 91 56 64 47 51 90 89 177
Refugees 0 1 1 13 7 5 4 3 9 6
Other immigrants 4 0 0 5 17 12 3 6 13 13
Territories** 148 155 173 122 164 159 161 175 194 288
Family class 55,276 60,616 66,775 62,290 65,110 62,261 63,361 70,508 66,230 65,563
Economic immigrants 109,245 136,282 155,715 137,863 121,037 133,748 156,308 138,236 131,194 149,029
Refugees 24,397 30,088 27,919 25,116 25,980 32,687 35,776 32,499 27,955 21,855
Other immigrants 1,031 460 206 3,780 9,205 7,129 6,790 10,382 11,322 10,742
Category not stated 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 2
Province or territory not stated 5 12 23 0 15 0 4 16 52 52
Total 189,954 227,458 250,639 229,049 221,348 235,825 262,241 251,643 236,754 247,243
Percentage distribution
Category 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Family class 20.8 19.8 25.9 25.2 28.7 29.2 23.9 19.7 17.3 20.1
Economic immigrants 63.1 63.5 58.2 53.9 49.8 56.5 63.4 68.6 70.9 69.0
Refugees 16.1 16.7 15.8 15.8 13.1 11.2 10.5 8.4 7.1 7.3
Other immigrants 0.0 0.0 0.1 5.1 8.4 3.0 2.2 3.3 4.6 3.7
Nova Scotia 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Family class 25.5 19.5 24.7 24.7 26.9 29.9 22.4 15.1 15.6 15.7
Economic immigrants 52.1 45.3 46.5 49.4 43.8 43.9 59.5 72.4 71.3 73.1
Refugees 22.4 35.1 28.8 22.1 21.9 21.9 16.6 10.8 10.6 8.9
Other immigrants 0.0 0.1 0.0 3.8 7.4 4.3 1.6 1.7 2.6 2.4
New Brunswick 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Family class 19.0 20.8 22.2 19.3 20.7 16.3 15.2 14.5 10.5 10.6
Economic immigrants 42.4 38.6 38.5 41.4 38.0 58.6 55.7 64.8 71.1 77.2
Refugees 38.3 40.6 39.3 35.9 32.9 22.0 26.2 19.0 16.6 10.0
Other immigrants 0.4 0.0 0.0 3.3 8.4 3.0 2.8 1.7 1.8 2.2
Other Atlantic provinces* 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Family class 26.0 24.5 22.6 19.6 20.4 19.5 19.3 20.6 18.9 20.2
Economic immigrants 48.0 50.3 58.3 61.3 59.5 60.3 60.7 58.1 62.0 65.0
Refugees 25.2 24.8 19.0 17.1 15.6 16.7 16.5 15.9 13.1 10.0
Other immigrants 0.8 0.3 0.1 1.9 4.5 3.5 3.5 5.4 6.0 4.8
Category not stated 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Quebec 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Family class 29.2 26.2 26.3 27.7 31.6 28.0 24.9 30.5 31.9 30.5
Economic immigrants 58.7 62.2 64.0 61.5 52.8 54.0 56.6 49.7 48.2 53.3
Refugees 11.5 11.3 9.6 9.4 11.5 14.7 15.6 14.9 13.9 10.7
Other immigrants 0.6 0.2 0.1 1.4 4.1 3.3 2.9 4.9 5.9 5.5
Category not stated 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Ontario 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Family class 27.6 23.0 23.9 19.1 16.0 15.0 14.7 13.3 12.1 12.3
Economic immigrants 51.5 55.0 50.9 58.0 62.7 67.3 70.7 73.4 76.0 77.5
Refugees 20.9 22.0 25.2 21.1 19.0 16.9 13.5 12.3 10.7 8.7
Other immigrants 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.8 2.3 0.8 1.1 1.0 1.2 1.5
Manitoba 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Family class 26.2 21.8 23.6 21.8 24.7 23.5 21.5 17.5 14.6 11.4
Economic immigrants 44.4 43.7 41.9 39.1 40.5 45.4 48.0 58.1 66.7 75.8
Refugees 29.5 34.4 34.5 36.1 30.0 28.8 29.0 23.0 17.5 11.4
Other immigrants 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.1 4.8 2.3 1.5 1.4 1.1 1.4
Saskatchewan 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Family class 34.6 31.2 30.3 31.2 33.9 31.5 29.2 32.2 32.5 29.5
Economic immigrants 54.6 55.7 58.2 54.0 49.4 53.1 57.4 54.2 54.1 59.9
Refugees 10.7 13.1 11.5 12.2 12.5 13.4 11.6 11.3 10.6 7.6
Other immigrants 0.2 0.0 0.0 2.6 4.2 2.1 1.8 2.3 2.8 3.0
Alberta 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Family class 30.4 29.3 30.7 33.5 32.8 29.4 26.2 32.0 32.4 28.3
Economic immigrants 64.0 63.6 63.5 58.7 58.0 61.9 67.5 61.2 60.0 65.3
Refugees 5.2 6.9 5.7 6.2 5.2 6.4 4.8 4.5 4.8 3.5
Other immigrants 0.3 0.2 0.1 1.6 3.9 2.3 1.5 2.4 2.7 3.0
British Columbia 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Family class 38.5 60.0 46.8 39.3 46.3 59.7 64.0 43.4 42.8 31.9
Economic immigrants 58.8 39.4 52.6 45.9 39.0 29.6 31.7 51.4 45.9 61.5
Refugees 0.0 0.6 0.6 10.7 4.3 3.1 2.5 1.7 4.6 2.1
Other immigrants 2.7 0.0 0.0 4.1 10.4 7.5 1.9 3.4 6.7 4.5
Territories** 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Family class 29.1 26.6 26.6 27.2 29.4 26.4 24.2 28.0 28.0 26.5
Economic immigrants 57.5 59.9 62.1 60.2 54.7 56.7 59.6 54.9 55.4 60.3
Refugees 12.8 13.2 11.1 11.0 11.7 13.9 13.6 12.9 11.8 8.8
Other immigrants 0.5 0.2 0.1 1.7 4.2 3.0 2.6 4.1 4.8 4.3
Category 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

*Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island
**Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut

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Date Modified: 2009-08-25

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