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

Temporary residents

Canada – Humanitarian population present on December 1^st by gender and age

Number
Age	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
0 to 14 years of age	7,500	7,240	8,336	8,620	8,968	7,611	5,574	4,636	4,865	6,330
15 to 24 years of age	10,359	10,323	12,038	12,709	12,894	11,583	9,525	8,117	7,543	8,151
25 to 44 years of age	31,406	33,782	38,952	41,171	42,219	39,498	34,343	30,704	29,141	31,791
45 to 64 years of age	5,132	5,763	7,185	8,191	8,910	8,875	8,449	7,904	7,820	8,769
65 years of age or more	717	716	826	885	860	791	741	715	684	742
Age not stated	22	18	8	6	5	4	1	0	1	0
Males	55,136	57,842	67,345	71,582	73,856	68,362	58,633	52,076	50,054	55,783
0 to 14 years of age	6,776	6,706	7,815	8,167	8,315	7,009	5,238	4,367	4,688	6,062
15 to 24 years of age	6,929	6,893	8,478	9,062	9,491	8,684	7,214	6,179	5,862	6,613
25 to 44 years of age	16,428	17,298	20,963	23,336	24,819	23,437	20,663	18,625	17,856	20,184
45 to 64 years of age	3,945	4,333	5,386	6,127	6,601	6,653	6,240	5,915	5,798	6,602
65 years of age or more	1,347	1,291	1,434	1,427	1,411	1,273	1,144	1,140	1,134	1,181
Age not stated	12	7	4	2	1	2	3	1	0	0
Females	35,437	36,528	44,080	48,121	50,638	47,058	40,502	36,227	35,338	40,642
0 to 14 years of age	14,276	13,946	16,151	16,787	17,283	14,620	10,812	9,003	9,553	12,392
15 to 24 years of age	17,288	17,216	20,516	21,771	22,385	20,267	16,739	14,296	13,405	14,764
25 to 44 years of age	47,834	51,080	59,915	64,507	67,038	62,935	55,006	49,329	46,997	51,975
45 to 64 years of age	9,077	10,096	12,571	14,318	15,511	15,528	14,689	13,819	13,618	15,371
65 years of age or more	2,064	2,007	2,260	2,312	2,271	2,064	1,885	1,855	1,818	1,923
Age not stated	34	25	12	8	6	6	4	1	1	0
Gender not stated	1	2	3	3	2	1	1	2	2	2
Total	90,574	94,372	111,428	119,706	124,496	115,421	99,136	88,305	85,394	96,427

Percentage distribution
Age	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
0 to 14 years of age	13.6	12.5	12.4	12.0	12.1	11.1	9.5	8.9	9.7	11.3
15 to 24 years of age	18.8	17.8	17.9	17.8	17.5	16.9	16.2	15.6	15.1	14.6
25 to 44 years of age	57.0	58.4	57.8	57.5	57.2	57.8	58.6	59.0	58.2	57.0
45 to 64 years of age	9.3	10.0	10.7	11.4	12.1	13.0	14.4	15.2	15.6	15.7
65 years of age or more	1.3	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.3	1.4	1.4	1.3
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	19.1	18.4	17.7	17.0	16.4	14.9	12.9	12.1	13.3	14.9
15 to 24 years of age	19.6	18.9	19.2	18.8	18.7	18.5	17.8	17.1	16.6	16.3
25 to 44 years of age	46.4	47.4	47.6	48.5	49.0	49.8	51.0	51.4	50.5	49.7
45 to 64 years of age	11.1	11.9	12.2	12.7	13.0	14.1	15.4	16.3	16.4	16.2
65 years of age or more	3.8	3.5	3.3	3.0	2.8	2.7	2.8	3.1	3.2	2.9
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	15.8	14.8	14.5	14.0	13.9	12.7	10.9	10.2	11.2	12.9
15 to 24 years of age	19.1	18.2	18.4	18.2	18.0	17.6	16.9	16.2	15.7	15.3
25 to 44 years of age	52.8	54.1	53.8	53.9	53.8	54.5	55.5	55.9	55.0	53.9
45 to 64 years of age	10.0	10.7	11.3	12.0	12.5	13.5	14.8	15.6	15.9	15.9
65 years of age or more	2.3	2.1	2.0	1.9	1.8	1.8	1.9	2.1	2.1	2.0
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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