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

Temporary residents

Canada – Total entries of humanitarian population by top source countries

Number
Source countries* 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Mexico 1,046 1,320 1,666 2,110 2,604 2,819 3,411 4,919 7,059 9,385
United States 312 378 470 1,066 2,775 3,074 1,486 1,670 4,062 4,700
Haiti 294 342 219 255 206 197 354 548 2,102 3,007
Colombia 640 1,240 1,689 2,455 1,602 2,288 845 1,030 1,750 2,135
China, People’s Republic of 2,443 2,101 2,544 1,933 1,686 1,797 1,599 1,472 1,311 1,413
Sri Lanka 2,805 2,891 2,777 1,571 1,192 1,074 824 827 761 915
Czech Republic 77 58 42 24 24 16 11 — 102 822
Nigeria 542 867 725 657 625 543 556 667 730 739
India 1,547 1,485 1,460 1,248 1,121 1,146 856 821 632 646
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 62 122 236 395 429 356 455 435 398 531
Pakistan 2,425 3,190 3,068 3,370 3,442 757 607 604 366 368
Congo, Democratic Republic of 868 970 1,193 561 386 358 280 364 289 368
Israel 265 254 477 575 535 420 294 490 404 336
Hungary 1,421 2,371 4,078 338 59 44 25 36 27 294
Iran 792 759 684 283 288 338 313 229 201 254
Turkey 444 995 1,608 1,018 378 230 257 266 144 230
Zimbabwe 33 228 2,733 129 54 90 394 399 162 212
Russia 886 674 368 253 230 166 169 209 198 206
Peru 366 448 707 1,015 559 499 168 149 142 167
Guyana 195 289 509 582 636 290 255 280 129 127
Argentina 469 1,634 1,147 666 171 72 55 52 38 35
Costa Rica 456 308 717 1,510 1,836 694 88 56 37 33
Yugoslavia (former) 7,503 282 190 101 109 77 — 0 — —
Top 10 source countries 21,736 18,197 22,816 17,296 17,519 14,691 11,033 13,048 19,209 24,293
Other countries 16,316 19,769 22,524 17,472 15,169 11,522 9,424 10,776 10,343 13,503
Total 38,052 37,966 45,340 34,768 32,688 26,213 20,457 23,824 29,552 37,796
Percentage distribution
Source countries* 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Mexico 2.7 3.5 3.7 6.1 8.0 10.8 16.7 20.6 23.9 24.8
United States 0.8 1.0 1.0 3.1 8.5 11.7 7.3 7.0 13.7 12.4
Haiti 0.8 0.9 0.5 0.7 0.6 0.8 1.7 2.3 7.1 8.0
Colombia 1.7 3.3 3.7 7.1 4.9 8.7 4.1 4.3 5.9 5.6
China, People’s Republic of 6.4 5.5 5.6 5.6 5.2 6.9 7.8 6.2 4.4 3.7
Sri Lanka 7.4 7.6 6.1 4.5 3.6 4.1 4.0 3.5 2.6 2.4
Czech Republic 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 — 0.3 2.2
Nigeria 1.4 2.3 1.6 1.9 1.9 2.1 2.7 2.8 2.5 2.0
India 4.1 3.9 3.2 3.6 3.4 4.4 4.2 3.4 2.1 1.7
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.2 0.3 0.5 1.1 1.3 1.4 2.2 1.8 1.3 1.4
Pakistan 6.4 8.4 6.8 9.7 10.5 2.9 3.0 2.5 1.2 1.0
Congo, Democratic Republic of 2.3 2.6 2.6 1.6 1.2 1.4 1.4 1.5 1.0 1.0
Israel 0.7 0.7 1.1 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.4 2.1 1.4 0.9
Hungary 3.7 6.2 9.0 1.0 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.8
Iran 2.1 2.0 1.5 0.8 0.9 1.3 1.5 1.0 0.7 0.7
Turkey 1.2 2.6 3.5 2.9 1.2 0.9 1.3 1.1 0.5 0.6
Zimbabwe 0.1 0.6 6.0 0.4 0.2 0.3 1.9 1.7 0.5 0.6
Russia 2.3 1.8 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.8 0.9 0.7 0.5
Peru 1.0 1.2 1.6 2.9 1.7 1.9 0.8 0.6 0.5 0.4
Guyana 0.5 0.8 1.1 1.7 1.9 1.1 1.2 1.2 0.4 0.3
Argentina 1.2 4.3 2.5 1.9 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1
Costa Rica 1.2 0.8 1.6 4.3 5.6 2.6 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.1
Yugoslavia (former) 19.7 0.7 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 — 0.0 — —
Top 10 source countries 57.1 47.9 50.3 49.7 53.6 56.0 53.9 54.8 65.0 64.3
Other countries 42.9 52.1 49.7 50.3 46.4 44.0 46.1 45.2 35.0 35.7
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Rank
Source countries* 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Mexico 7 7 7 3 3 2 1 1 1 1
United States 27 22 22 8 2 1 3 2 2 2
Haiti 29 27 48 33 33 28 11 9 3 3
Colombia 11 8 6 2 6 3 5 4 4 4
China, People’s Republic of 3 4 5 4 5 4 2 3 5 5
Sri Lanka 2 2 3 5 7 6 6 5 6 6
Czech Republic 65 86 99 113 106 120 117 181 42 7
Nigeria 12 11 13 12 10 9 8 7 7 8
India 5 6 9 7 8 5 4 6 8 9
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 71 56 40 19 16 13 9 11 10 10
Pakistan 4 1 2 1 1 7 7 8 11 13
Congo, Democratic Republic of 9 10 10 15 19 12 14 15 12 14
Israel 31 36 21 14 14 11 13 10 9 17
Hungary 6 3 1 21 75 77 91 78 88 18
Iran 10 12 16 29 26 14 12 19 19 24
Turkey 19 9 8 9 20 23 16 17 31 26
Zimbabwe 95 41 4 54 78 53 10 13 27 28
Russia 8 15 29 34 31 35 25 22 20 29
Peru 23 19 15 10 12 10 26 37 32 37
Guyana 39 31 20 13 9 16 17 16 37 45
Argentina 17 5 11 11 42 61 60 64 73 82
Costa Rica 18 29 14 6 4 8 44 62 74 89
Yugoslavia (former) 1 32 51 63 51 57 175 219 187 185

*For the humanitarian population, source country refers to country of last permanent residence

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Date Modified: 2009-08-25

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