Table 2
Immigrants to Canada by category, 1981 to 2011

Table 2
Immigrants to Canada by category, 1981 to 2011
Table summary
This table displays the results of immigrants to canada by category. The information is grouped by year (appearing as row headers), economic, family, refugees, others and total, calculated using number and percentage units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year Economic Family Protected persons OthersNote 1 Total
number
1981 60,238 51,359 14,981 2,063 128,641
1986 35,840 42,477 19,204 1,835 99,356
1991 86,500 87,970 36,180 22,159 232,809
1992 95,790 101,113 37,167 20,722 254,792
1993 105,652 112,644 24,946 13,399 256,641
1994 102,308 94,190 19,773 8,114 224,385
1995 106,626 77,386 27,800 1,054 212,866
1996 125,369 68,359 28,356 3,987 226,071
1997 128,349 59,978 24,226 3,482 216,035
1998 97,909 50,896 22,797 2,593 174,195
1999 109,248 55,274 24,380 1,049 189,951
2000 136,284 60,619 30,081 471 227,455
2001 155,717 66,795 27,914 211 250,637
2002 137,863 62,292 25,101 3,792 229,048
2003 121,047 65,123 25,982 9,197 221,349
2004 133,746 62,275 32,686 7,116 235,823
2005 156,313 63,375 35,776 6,778 262,242
2006 138,249 70,518 32,499 10,375 251,641
2007 131,244 66,243 27,953 11,313 236,753
2008 149,069 65,583 21,859 10,736 247,247
2009 153,491 65,208 22,850 10,623 252,172
2010 186,918 60,230 24,697 8,846 280,691
2011 156,118 56,451 27,873 8,305 248,747
  percentage
1981 46.8 39.9 11.6 1.6 100.0
1986 36.1 42.8 19.3 1.8 100.0
1991 37.2 37.8 15.5 9.5 100.0
1992 37.6 39.7 14.6 8.1 100.0
1993 41.2 43.9 9.7 5.2 100.0
1994 45.6 42.0 8.8 3.6 100.0
1995 50.1 36.4 13.1 0.5 100.0
1996 55.5 30.2 12.5 1.8 100.0
1997 59.4 27.8 11.2 1.6 100.0
1998 56.2 29.2 13.1 1.5 100.0
1999 57.5 29.1 12.8 0.6 100.0
2000 59.9 26.7 13.2 0.2 100.0
2001 62.1 26.7 11.1 0.1 100.0
2002 60.2 27.2 11.0 1.7 100.0
2003 54.7 29.4 11.7 4.2 100.0
2004 56.7 26.4 13.9 3.0 100.0
2005 59.6 24.2 13.6 2.6 100.0
2006 54.9 28.0 12.9 4.1 100.0
2007 55.4 28.0 11.8 4.8 100.0
2008 60.3 26.5 8.8 4.3 100.0
2009 60.9 25.9 9.1 4.2 100.0
2010 66.6 21.5 8.8 3.2 100.0
2011 62.8 22.7 11.2 3.3 100.0
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