CANADA

Composition Of Immigrant Population by Place of Birth
and Period of Immigration: 2001

Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Population.

Last modified: May 13, 2003.

(in thousands)

	TOTAL IMMIGRANT POPULATION:2001^1	Percent of Total^3	Percent Arriving 1991-2001^2
PLACE OF BIRTH	5,448,480	100 percent	33 percent
United States	237,920	4.3 percent	22 percent
Central and South America	304,650	5.5 percent	38 percent
Caribbean and Bermuda	294,050	5.3 percent	29 percent
United Kingdom	606,000	11 percent	7 percent
Other Northern and Western Europe	494,825	9 percent	12 percent
Eastern Europe	471,365	9 percent	35 percent
Southern Europe	715,370	13 percent	13 percent
Africa	282,600	5 percent	49 percent
West-Central Asia and Middle East	285,585	5 percent	57 percent
Eastern Asia	730,600	13 percent	58 percent
South-East Asia	469,105	9 percent	40 percent
Southern Asia	503,895	9 percent	59 percent
Oceania and other countries	52,525	.09 percent	29 percent

1. Immigrant population: people who are or who have ever been landed immigrants. Landed immigrants are people who have been permitted by immigration authorities to live in Canada permanently; some will have lived in Canada for a number of years, while others have arrived recently.
2. Includes data up to May 15, 2001
3. Does not total 100% due to rounding

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