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

Number
Source countries*	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Mexico	2,656	2,948	3,618	4,693	5,905	6,940	8,003	9,951	13,105	17,796
United States	879	896	1,154	1,901	3,988	5,813	5,557	4,562	6,293	8,978
China, People’s Republic of	5,658	5,591	6,335	6,698	6,691	6,602	6,138	5,954	5,604	5,800
Haiti	781	941	903	898	872	882	957	1,233	2,838	5,762
Colombia	886	1,765	2,937	4,619	5,304	5,631	4,204	2,896	3,080	4,198
India	4,947	5,243	5,555	5,519	5,262	4,842	4,571	4,151	3,640	3,363
Sri Lanka	7,214	7,186	7,632	7,140	6,585	5,744	4,400	3,909	3,473	3,060
Pakistan	5,097	6,796	7,910	9,147	10,738	8,671	6,504	4,810	3,447	2,766
Nigeria	1,745	2,138	2,382	2,462	2,656	2,639	2,461	2,374	2,425	2,661
Congo, Democratic Republic of	2,665	2,824	3,374	3,248	3,101	2,670	2,314	2,091	1,742	1,705
Zimbabwe	49	216	2,856	2,973	2,470	1,329	1,229	1,472	1,233	1,168
Guyana	458	602	941	1,354	1,803	1,866	1,718	1,647	1,393	1,138
Iran	3,256	2,965	2,885	2,492	2,196	1,911	1,693	1,437	1,150	1,071
Somalia, Democratic Republic of	4,891	3,797	3,318	2,830	2,239	1,707	1,331	1,051	829	959
Turkey	840	1,482	2,700	3,146	2,924	2,279	1,497	1,208	895	799
Hungary	2,275	3,696	6,403	5,363	3,471	2,466	1,553	1,025	582	537
Costa Rica	700	774	1,000	2,197	3,459	3,134	1,954	1,031	546	263
Yugoslavia (former)	7,943	2,919	932	644	604	533	315	170	85	54
Top 10 source countries	46,602	43,965	49,967	52,546	54,504	52,686	46,106	42,345	45,647	56,089
Other countries	43,972	50,407	61,461	67,160	69,992	62,735	53,030	45,960	39,747	40,338
Total	90,574	94,372	111,428	119,706	124,496	115,421	99,136	88,305	85,394	96,427

Percentage distribution
Source countries*	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Mexico	2.9	3.1	3.2	3.9	4.7	6.0	8.1	11.3	15.3	18.5
United States	1.0	0.9	1.0	1.6	3.2	5.0	5.6	5.2	7.4	9.3
China, People’s Republic of	6.2	5.9	5.7	5.6	5.4	5.7	6.2	6.7	6.6	6.0
Haiti	0.9	1.0	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.8	1.0	1.4	3.3	6.0
Colombia	1.0	1.9	2.6	3.9	4.3	4.9	4.2	3.3	3.6	4.4
India	5.5	5.6	5.0	4.6	4.2	4.2	4.6	4.7	4.3	3.5
Sri Lanka	8.0	7.6	6.8	6.0	5.3	5.0	4.4	4.4	4.1	3.2
Pakistan	5.6	7.2	7.1	7.6	8.6	7.5	6.6	5.4	4.0	2.9
Nigeria	1.9	2.3	2.1	2.1	2.1	2.3	2.5	2.7	2.8	2.8
Congo, Democratic Republic of	2.9	3.0	3.0	2.7	2.5	2.3	2.3	2.4	2.0	1.8
Zimbabwe	0.1	0.2	2.6	2.5	2.0	1.2	1.2	1.7	1.4	1.2
Guyana	0.5	0.6	0.8	1.1	1.4	1.6	1.7	1.9	1.6	1.2
Iran	3.6	3.1	2.6	2.1	1.8	1.7	1.7	1.6	1.3	1.1
Somalia, Democratic Republic of	5.4	4.0	3.0	2.4	1.8	1.5	1.3	1.2	1.0	1.0
Turkey	0.9	1.6	2.4	2.6	2.3	2.0	1.5	1.4	1.0	0.8
Hungary	2.5	3.9	5.7	4.5	2.8	2.1	1.6	1.2	0.7	0.6
Costa Rica	0.8	0.8	0.9	1.8	2.8	2.7	2.0	1.2	0.6	0.3
Yugoslavia (former)	8.8	3.1	0.8	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.1
Top 10 source countries	51.5	46.6	44.8	43.9	43.8	45.6	46.5	48.0	53.5	58.2
Other countries	48.5	53.4	55.2	56.1	56.2	54.4	53.5	52.0	46.5	41.8
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	9	8	6	6	4	2	1	1	1	1
United States	23	28	26	17	7	4	4	4	2	2
China, People’s Republic of	3	3	4	3	2	3	3	2	3	3
Haiti	27	26	32	32	37	34	24	15	8	4
Colombia	22	14	9	7	5	6	7	7	7	5
India	5	4	5	4	6	7	5	5	4	6
Sri Lanka	2	1	2	2	3	5	6	6	5	7
Pakistan	4	2	1	1	1	1	2	3	6	8
Nigeria	13	11	14	14	12	10	8	8	9	9
Congo, Democratic Republic of	8	10	7	8	10	9	9	9	10	10
Zimbabwe	114	74	11	10	13	22	22	11	13	13
Guyana	44	36	30	21	19	15	11	10	11	14
Iran	7	7	10	13	16	14	12	12	15	15
Somalia, Democratic Republic of	6	5	8	11	15	17	20	20	20	16
Turkey	25	17	13	9	11	12	15	16	17	21
Hungary	10	6	3	5	8	11	14	23	33	37
Costa Rica	33	30	28	15	9	8	10	22	37	55
Yugoslavia (former)	1	9	31	46	52	53	62	78	102	118

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