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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	1,114	1,381	1,704	2,084	2,613	2,803	3,446	4,947	7,232	9,533
Haiti	300	344	231	239	197	174	379	756	3,699	4,907
Colombia	640	1,247	1,648	2,628	2,145	3,925	1,186	1,421	2,748	3,329
China, People’s Republic of	2,817	2,268	2,692	2,107	1,799	1,968	1,695	1,588	1,439	1,661
Sri Lanka	2,802	2,898	2,824	1,589	1,239	1,134	854	862	779	1,013
United States	79	133	121	236	347	261	259	419	1,031	939
Czech Republic	68	50	40	18	22	15	10	—	100	848
Nigeria	535	871	732	664	639	558	581	674	743	775
El Salvador	273	270	533	286	200	185	175	273	338	659
India	1,404	1,457	1,436	1,185	1,121	1,098	828	771	552	551
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	56	118	227	376	401	308	409	370	351	495
Congo, Democratic Republic of	815	971	1,221	569	411	388	309	414	343	440
Pakistan	2,468	3,247	3,159	3,549	4,226	904	644	616	354	393
Zimbabwe	29	223	2,734	123	58	90	685	581	226	380
Israel	254	254	472	547	542	428	286	493	387	337
Hungary	1,247	2,342	4,143	336	56	43	21	27	23	306
Iran	822	793	694	300	307	341	335	237	194	272
Turkey	436	987	1,636	1,044	404	256	263	265	150	234
Peru	353	445	718	1,016	554	547	187	165	169	216
Russia	867	678	388	261	237	169	169	203	199	201
Guyana	196	288	511	580	636	282	236	276	118	128
Bangladesh	314	356	384	325	708	322	174	121	80	99
Argentina	447	1,587	1,167	665	198	94	45	46	36	38
Costa Rica	439	314	722	1,525	1,832	681	78	48	24	27
Top 10 source countries	14,996	18,385	23,197	17,392	16,958	14,046	10,707	12,709	18,964	24,215
Other countries	14,916	18,781	21,260	15,951	14,842	11,419	8,984	10,165	9,483	12,636
Total	29,912	37,166	44,457	33,343	31,800	25,465	19,691	22,874	28,447	36,851

Percentage distribution
Source countries*	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Mexico	3.7	3.7	3.8	6.3	8.2	11.0	17.5	21.6	25.4	25.9
Haiti	1.0	0.9	0.5	0.7	0.6	0.7	1.9	3.3	13.0	13.3
Colombia	2.1	3.4	3.7	7.9	6.7	15.4	6.0	6.2	9.7	9.0
China, People’s Republic of	9.4	6.1	6.1	6.3	5.7	7.7	8.6	6.9	5.1	4.5
Sri Lanka	9.4	7.8	6.4	4.8	3.9	4.5	4.3	3.8	2.7	2.7
United States	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.7	1.1	1.0	1.3	1.8	3.6	2.5
Czech Republic	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	—	0.4	2.3
Nigeria	1.8	2.3	1.6	2.0	2.0	2.2	3.0	2.9	2.6	2.1
El Salvador	0.9	0.7	1.2	0.9	0.6	0.7	0.9	1.2	1.2	1.8
India	4.7	3.9	3.2	3.6	3.5	4.3	4.2	3.4	1.9	1.5
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.2	0.3	0.5	1.1	1.3	1.2	2.1	1.6	1.2	1.3
Congo, Democratic Republic of	2.7	2.6	2.7	1.7	1.3	1.5	1.6	1.8	1.2	1.2
Pakistan	8.3	8.7	7.1	10.6	13.3	3.5	3.3	2.7	1.2	1.1
Zimbabwe	0.1	0.6	6.1	0.4	0.2	0.4	3.5	2.5	0.8	1.0
Israel	0.8	0.7	1.1	1.6	1.7	1.7	1.5	2.2	1.4	0.9
Hungary	4.2	6.3	9.3	1.0	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.8
Iran	2.7	2.1	1.6	0.9	1.0	1.3	1.7	1.0	0.7	0.7
Turkey	1.5	2.7	3.7	3.1	1.3	1.0	1.3	1.2	0.5	0.6
Peru	1.2	1.2	1.6	3.0	1.7	2.1	0.9	0.7	0.6	0.6
Russia	2.9	1.8	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.9	0.9	0.7	0.5
Guyana	0.7	0.8	1.1	1.7	2.0	1.1	1.2	1.2	0.4	0.3
Bangladesh	1.0	1.0	0.9	1.0	2.2	1.3	0.9	0.5	0.3	0.3
Argentina	1.5	4.3	2.6	2.0	0.6	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1
Costa Rica	1.5	0.8	1.6	4.6	5.8	2.7	0.4	0.2	0.1	0.1
Top 10 source countries	50.1	49.5	52.2	52.2	53.3	55.2	54.4	55.6	66.7	65.7
Other countries	49.9	50.5	47.8	47.8	46.7	44.8	45.6	44.4	33.3	34.3
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

* For refugee claimants, source country refers to the principal country of alleged persecution