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

Temporary residents

Canada – Total entries of humanitarian population by gender and age

Number
Age	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
0 to 14 years of age	3,923	3,241	3,969	2,942	3,021	2,274	1,644	1,991	2,970	3,889
15 to 24 years of age	5,389	5,067	6,219	4,658	4,223	3,260	2,540	2,819	3,105	3,868
25 to 44 years of age	11,174	12,281	13,750	10,439	9,619	7,647	5,875	6,694	8,299	10,701
45 to 64 years of age	1,872	1,922	2,303	1,892	1,872	1,463	1,178	1,432	1,700	2,368
65 years of age or more	274	248	284	212	172	152	150	192	205	252
Age not stated	6	4	1	2	0	1	0	1	0	1
Males	22,638	22,763	26,526	20,145	18,907	14,797	11,387	13,129	16,279	21,079
0 to 14 years of age	3,614	3,102	3,759	2,807	2,790	2,099	1,605	1,939	2,828	3,791
15 to 24 years of age	3,402	3,339	4,280	3,229	2,942	2,415	1,905	1,971	2,497	3,100
25 to 44 years of age	6,296	6,691	8,319	6,658	6,224	5,272	4,082	4,923	5,950	7,365
45 to 64 years of age	1,622	1,670	1,991	1,617	1,558	1,398	1,214	1,495	1,630	2,049
65 years of age or more	472	399	463	311	264	231	263	365	368	412
Age not stated	7	0	1	0	3	1	1	0	0	0
Females	15,413	15,201	18,813	14,622	13,781	11,416	9,070	10,693	13,273	16,717
0 to 14 years of age	7,537	6,343	7,728	5,749	5,811	4,373	3,249	3,930	5,798	7,680
15 to 24 years of age	8,791	8,406	10,499	7,887	7,165	5,675	4,445	4,790	5,602	6,968
25 to 44 years of age	17,470	18,972	22,069	17,097	15,843	12,919	9,957	11,617	14,249	18,066
45 to 64 years of age	3,494	3,592	4,294	3,509	3,430	2,861	2,392	2,927	3,330	4,417
65 years of age or more	746	647	747	523	436	383	413	557	573	664
Age not stated	13	4	2	2	3	2	1	1	0	1
Gender not stated	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0
Total	38,052	37,966	45,340	34,768	32,688	26,213	20,457	23,824	29,552	37,796

Percentage distribution
Age	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
0 to 14 years of age	17.3	14.2	15.0	14.6	16.0	15.4	14.4	15.2	18.2	18.4
15 to 24 years of age	23.8	22.3	23.4	23.1	22.3	22.0	22.3	21.5	19.1	18.4
25 to 44 years of age	49.4	54.0	51.8	51.8	50.9	51.7	51.6	51.0	51.0	50.8
45 to 64 years of age	8.3	8.4	8.7	9.4	9.9	9.9	10.3	10.9	10.4	11.2
65 years of age or more	1.2	1.1	1.1	1.1	0.9	1.0	1.3	1.5	1.3	1.2
Age not stated	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	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
0 to 14 years of age	23.4	20.4	20.0	19.2	20.2	18.4	17.7	18.1	21.3	22.7
15 to 24 years of age	22.1	22.0	22.8	22.1	21.3	21.2	21.0	18.4	18.8	18.5
25 to 44 years of age	40.8	44.0	44.2	45.5	45.2	46.2	45.0	46.0	44.8	44.1
45 to 64 years of age	10.5	11.0	10.6	11.1	11.3	12.2	13.4	14.0	12.3	12.3
65 years of age or more	3.1	2.6	2.5	2.1	1.9	2.0	2.9	3.4	2.8	2.5
Age not stated	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	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
0 to 14 years of age	19.8	16.7	17.0	16.5	17.8	16.7	15.9	16.5	19.6	20.3
15 to 24 years of age	23.1	22.1	23.2	22.7	21.9	21.6	21.7	20.1	19.0	18.4
25 to 44 years of age	45.9	50.0	48.7	49.2	48.5	49.3	48.7	48.8	48.2	47.8
45 to 64 years of age	9.2	9.5	9.5	10.1	10.5	10.9	11.7	12.3	11.3	11.7
65 years of age or more	2.0	1.7	1.6	1.5	1.3	1.5	2.0	2.3	1.9	1.8
Age not stated	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
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

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