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Permanent residents

Canada – Permanent residents by province or territory and category

*Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island
**Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut

Number
Category 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Family class 440 358 423 518 462 510 436 532 479 449
Economic immigrants 987 765 734 1,000 1,223 1,774 1,790 1,828 1,690 1,685
Refugees 268 224 193 199 202 217 180 193 166 218
Other immigrants 2 72 124 54 42 85 117 98 89 56
Nova Scotia 1,697 1,419 1,474 1,771 1,929 2,586 2,523 2,651 2,424 2,408
Family class 197 174 180 239 244 249 256 291 251 211
Economic immigrants 371 348 292 349 649 1,191 1,171 1,355 1,498 1,727
Refugees 230 156 146 174 181 178 174 165 132 157
Other immigrants 0 27 48 33 17 28 42 45 32 30
New Brunswick 798 705 666 795 1,091 1,646 1,643 1,856 1,913 2,125
Family class 117 99 106 145 126 156 162 219 186 161
Economic immigrants 203 212 195 521 461 695 1,093 1,588 1,890 2,896
Refugees 207 184 169 196 217 204 256 208 224 216
Other immigrants 0 17 43 27 23 18 27 44 26 22
Other Atlantic provinces* 527 512 513 889 827 1,073 1,538 2,059 2,326 3,295
Family class 8,497 7,378 8,058 8,631 8,358 9,225 8,523 9,144 8,868 9,629
Economic immigrants 21,934 23,047 23,554 26,669 26,294 25,951 28,026 29,380 34,511 37,916
Refugees 7,139 6,439 6,183 7,383 7,165 7,104 5,933 4,522 4,057 4,711
Other immigrants 27 717 1,760 1,562 1,498 2,403 2,717 2,172 2,055 1,724
Category not stated 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2
Quebec 37,598 37,581 39,555 44,245 43,315 44,683 45,200 45,219 49,491 53,982
Family class 39,150 36,970 37,872 35,018 35,035 38,353 35,541 33,806 33,134 29,341
Economic immigrants 95,091 82,133 63,177 67,603 79,559 62,616 53,685 59,118 54,831 69,502
Refugees 14,249 12,617 13,737 18,341 21,892 18,705 15,516 11,858 12,654 13,914
Other immigrants 150 1,867 4,936 4,132 4,037 6,217 6,574 6,095 6,239 5,353
Category not stated 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 1 1 4
Ontario 148,640 133,587 119,723 125,094 140,525 125,893 111,316 110,878 106,859 118,114
Family class 1,096 880 1,043 1,118 1,192 1,332 1,322 1,385 1,359 1,377
Economic immigrants 2,337 2,677 4,079 4,999 5,724 7,376 8,328 8,694 10,905 13,276
Refugees 1,158 976 1,234 1,252 1,094 1,238 1,170 972 1,098 1,032
Other immigrants 0 82 147 57 86 101 134 167 159 124
Manitoba 4,591 4,615 6,503 7,426 8,096 10,047 10,954 11,218 13,521 15,809
Family class 402 363 412 456 456 477 514 551 628 726
Economic immigrants 714 652 675 883 1,018 1,582 2,346 3,665 5,538 6,243
Refugees 588 601 501 560 614 626 617 552 646 574
Other immigrants 0 51 80 44 31 39 39 67 78 72
Saskatchewan 1,704 1,667 1,668 1,943 2,119 2,724 3,516 4,835 6,890 7,615
Family class 4,971 4,617 5,376 5,184 5,672 6,679 6,790 7,135 7,599 7,372
Economic immigrants 9,554 7,981 7,823 8,741 11,130 11,219 11,276 14,504 16,532 22,398
Refugees 1,879 1,797 1,982 2,210 2,248 2,334 2,216 1,845 2,237 2,204
Other immigrants 0 388 658 340 354 484 579 717 649 668
Alberta 16,404 14,783 15,839 16,475 19,404 20,716 20,861 24,201 27,017 32,642
Family class 11,824 11,405 11,573 10,871 11,726 13,460 12,613 12,424 12,612 10,865
Economic immigrants 24,432 19,992 20,445 22,935 30,199 25,740 23,395 28,719 25,917 30,874
Refugees 2,200 2,106 1,827 2,367 2,159 1,891 1,883 1,532 1,634 1,667
Other immigrants 27 554 1,384 854 686 992 1,070 1,317 1,277 776
Category not stated 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
British Columbia 38,483 34,057 35,229 37,027 44,770 42,083 38,961 43,992 41,440 44,183
Family class 81 48 76 95 103 76 83 91 88 89
Economic immigrants 91 56 64 47 51 90 85 177 179 396
Refugees 1 13 7 5 4 3 9 6 2 2
Other immigrants 0 5 17 12 3 6 13 13 22 19
Territories** 173 122 164 159 161 175 190 287 291 506
Family class 66,775 62,292 65,119 62,275 63,374 70,517 66,240 65,578 65,204 60,220
Economic immigrants 155,714 137,863 121,038 133,747 156,308 138,234 131,195 149,028 153,491 186,913
Refugees 27,919 25,113 25,979 32,687 35,776 32,500 27,954 21,853 22,850 24,695
Other immigrants 206 3,780 9,197 7,115 6,777 10,373 11,312 10,735 10,626 8,844
Category not stated 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 2 1 7
Province or territory not stated 23 0 15 0 4 16 52 52 0 2
Total 250,638 229,048 221,349 235,824 262,241 251,642 236,754 247,248 252,172 280,681

*Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island
**Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut

Percentage distribution
Category 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Family class 25.9 25.2 28.7 29.2 24.0 19.7 17.3 20.1 19.8 18.6
Economic immigrants 58.2 53.9 49.8 56.5 63.4 68.6 70.9 69.0 69.7 70.0
Refugees 15.8 15.8 13.1 11.2 10.5 8.4 7.1 7.3 6.8 9.1
Other immigrants 0.1 5.1 8.4 3.0 2.2 3.3 4.6 3.7 3.7 2.3
Nova Scotia 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Family class 24.7 24.7 27.0 30.1 22.4 15.1 15.6 15.7 13.1 9.9
Economic immigrants 46.5 49.4 43.8 43.9 59.5 72.4 71.3 73.0 78.3 81.3
Refugees 28.8 22.1 21.9 21.9 16.6 10.8 10.6 8.9 6.9 7.4
Other immigrants 0.0 3.8 7.2 4.2 1.6 1.7 2.6 2.4 1.7 1.4
New Brunswick 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Family class 22.2 19.3 20.7 16.3 15.2 14.5 10.5 10.6 8.0 4.9
Economic immigrants 38.5 41.4 38.0 58.6 55.7 64.8 71.1 77.1 81.3 87.9
Refugees 39.3 35.9 32.9 22.0 26.2 19.0 16.6 10.1 9.6 6.6
Other immigrants 0.0 3.3 8.4 3.0 2.8 1.7 1.8 2.1 1.1 0.7
Other Atlantic provinces* 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Family class 22.6 19.6 20.4 19.5 19.3 20.6 18.9 20.2 17.9 17.8
Economic immigrants 58.3 61.3 59.5 60.3 60.7 58.1 62.0 65.0 69.7 70.2
Refugees 19.0 17.1 15.6 16.7 16.5 15.9 13.1 10.0 8.2 8.7
Other immigrants 0.1 1.9 4.4 3.5 3.5 5.4 6.0 4.8 4.2 3.2
Category not stated 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Quebec 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Family class 26.3 27.7 31.6 28.0 24.9 30.5 31.9 30.5 31.0 24.8
Economic immigrants 64.0 61.5 52.8 54.0 56.6 49.7 48.2 53.3 51.3 58.8
Refugees 9.6 9.4 11.5 14.7 15.6 14.9 13.9 10.7 11.8 11.8
Other immigrants 0.1 1.4 4.1 3.3 2.9 4.9 5.9 5.5 5.8 4.5
Category not stated 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Ontario 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Family class 23.9 19.1 16.0 15.1 14.7 13.3 12.1 12.3 10.1 8.7
Economic immigrants 50.9 58.0 62.7 67.3 70.7 73.4 76.0 77.5 80.7 84.0
Refugees 25.2 21.1 19.0 16.9 13.5 12.3 10.7 8.7 8.1 6.5
Other immigrants 0.0 1.8 2.3 0.8 1.1 1.0 1.2 1.5 1.2 0.8
Manitoba 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Family class 23.6 21.8 24.7 23.5 21.5 17.5 14.6 11.4 9.1 9.5
Economic immigrants 41.9 39.1 40.5 45.4 48.0 58.1 66.7 75.8 80.4 82.0
Refugees 34.5 36.1 30.0 28.8 29.0 23.0 17.5 11.4 9.4 7.5
Other immigrants 0.0 3.1 4.8 2.3 1.5 1.4 1.1 1.4 1.1 0.9
Saskatchewan 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Family class 30.3 31.2 33.9 31.5 29.2 32.2 32.5 29.5 28.1 22.6
Economic immigrants 58.2 54.0 49.4 53.1 57.4 54.2 54.1 59.9 61.2 68.6
Refugees 11.5 12.2 12.5 13.4 11.6 11.3 10.6 7.6 8.3 6.8
Other immigrants 0.0 2.6 4.2 2.1 1.8 2.3 2.8 3.0 2.4 2.0
Alberta 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Family class 30.7 33.5 32.9 29.4 26.2 32.0 32.4 28.2 30.4 24.6
Economic immigrants 63.5 58.7 58.0 61.9 67.5 61.2 60.0 65.3 62.5 69.9
Refugees 5.7 6.2 5.2 6.4 4.8 4.5 4.8 3.5 3.9 3.8
Other immigrants 0.1 1.6 3.9 2.3 1.5 2.4 2.7 3.0 3.1 1.8
Category not stated 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
British Columbia 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Family class 46.8 39.3 46.3 59.7 64.0 43.4 43.7 31.7 30.2 17.6
Economic immigrants 52.6 45.9 39.0 29.6 31.7 51.4 44.7 61.7 61.5 78.3
Refugees 0.6 10.7 4.3 3.1 2.5 1.7 4.7 2.1 0.7 0.4
Other immigrants 0.0 4.1 10.4 7.5 1.9 3.4 6.8 4.5 7.6 3.8
Territories** 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Family class 26.6 27.2 29.4 26.4 24.2 28.0 28.0 26.5 25.9 21.5
Economic immigrants 62.1 60.2 54.7 56.7 59.6 54.9 55.4 60.3 60.9 66.6
Refugees 11.1 11.0 11.7 13.9 13.6 12.9 11.8 8.8 9.1 8.8
Other immigrants 0.1 1.7 4.2 3.0 2.6 4.1 4.8 4.3 4.2 3.2
Category not stated 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Province or territory 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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