Table 3
Immigrants by category according to the 10 main countries of birth, Canada, 1981 to 2011

Table 3
Immigrants by category according to the 10 main countries of birth, Canada, 1981 to 2011
Table summary
This table displays the results of immigrants by category according to the 10 main countries of birth. The information is grouped by year and
country of birth (appearing as row headers), economic, family, refugees, others and total, calculated using number units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year and
country of birth		 Economic Family Protected persons OthersNote 1 Total
number
1981  
United Kingdom 14,340 4,164 — 408 18,915
China 7,219 6,356 297 116 13,988
India 1,711 7,674 — 26 9,412
United States 4,244 4,142 — 311 8,700
Viet Nam 805 1,034 6,323 — 8,164
Philippines 1,693 4,269 — 15 5,979
Poland 842 633 2,588 31 4,094
Haiti 2,337 1,346 19 — 3,702
Guyana 954 2,053 — 11 3,018
Jamaica 479 2,198 — 11 2,688
1991  
China 21,138 13,164 777 2,871 37,950
Poland 623 5,108 10,030 41 15,802
India 2,978 10,879 46 400 14,303
Philippines 6,915 5,722 22 69 12,728
Lebanon 6,478 2,553 1,882 1,311 12,224
Viet Nam 1,598 4,434 2,849 7 8,888
El Salvador 601 767 3,246 2,549 7,163
Sri Lanka 886 1,960 1,386 2,926 7,158
Iran 1,581 824 2,029 2,246 6,680
United Kingdom 4,194 2,186 62 155 6,597
2001  
China 35,466 7,533 736 15 43,750
India 17,066 12,958 752 23 30,799
Pakistan 10,947 3,070 1,939 18 15,974
Philippines 10,127 3,482 15 — 13,624
South Korea 8,756 761 25 — 9,545
Iran 3,624 1,007 1,516 13 6,160
Sri Lanka 1,315 1,926 2,565 37 5,843
Romania 4,538 1,009 170 — 5,717
United States 2,330 2,912 46 — 5,288
Russia 3,581 1,130 446 — 5,159
2010  
Philippines 33,568 4,380 18 335 38,301
India 22,068 10,567 536 342 33,513
China 23,373 7,013 964 482 31,832
United Kingdom 6,002 1,428 5 204 7,639
United States 3,382 3,008 656 532 7,578
Iran 5,889 1,006 549 102 7,546
Pakistan 4,097 1,488 486 245 6,316
Morocco 4,933 1,225 16 65 6,239
Iraq 1,273 359 4,116 31 5,779
South Korea 4,637 722 24 142 5,525
2011  
Philippines 31,802 4,354 23 304 36,483
China 20,653 7,582 1,297 502 30,034
India 17,329 9,044 353 262 26,988
Iran 5,765 858 796 107 7,526
United States 2,887 2,817 786 573 7,063
Pakistan 3,930 2,110 720 211 6,971
Haiti 2,497 1,557 2,136 355 6,545
Iraq 1,120 255 4,607 34 6,016
United Kingdom 3,625 1,359 6 190 5,180
Colombia 1,853 698 2,034 111 4,696
Note 1.

Includes deferred removal order class, post-determination refugee claimant class, temporary resident permit holders, humanitarian and compassionate/public policy cases and unknowns.

Notes: Due to privacy considerations, some cells in the table have been suppressed and replaced with the notation “—”. As a result, components may not sum to the total indicated. In general, we have suppressed cells containing less than five cases except in circumstances where, in our judgement, we are not releasing personal information on an identifiable individual. Source: Citizenship and Immigration Canada. 2012. Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration, 2012. In addition to the country of birth, Citizenship and Immigration Canada also collects data on the country of last permanent residence of immigrants. Data available as of November 2012.
Source: Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
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