Asian Heritage Month 2025... By the numbers: Immigration

This publication is the final article of our Asian Heritage Month 2025 series examining the data on various topics relating to Asian populations across Canada. If you missed any of the articles, you can easily find them by searching for “Asian Heritage Month 2025” in the app.   

• Since 2006, Asia has accounted for the largest share of immigrants living in the country. In 2021, just over half (51.5%) of all immigrants in Canada were born in Asia.
• The proportion of Asian-born among recent immigrants made up a record-high 62.0% of recent immigrants admitted from 2016 to 2021, whereas in 1971, 12.1% of recent immigrants were from Asia.

• In 2021, Asian countries accounted for 6 of the top 10 countries of birth of recent immigrants: India, the Philippines, China, Syria, Pakistan and Iran.

Reference

• Census of Population, 2021
• Immigrants make up the largest share of the population in over 150 years and continue to shape who we are as Canadians