How many immigrants are there in Canada?

In Canada, one in five people is an immigrant; In the past five years, China has been the largest source country of Canadian immigrants. This is the latest data of the 2006 census released by Statistics Canada yesterday.

According to the census, 665,438+086,950 Canadians were born abroad, accounting for 65,438+09.8% of the total population, which is the highest in 75 years, only slightly lower than the peak of 22.2% in 65,438+09,365,438+0. From 200 1 to 2006, the growth rate of overseas-born population was 13.6%, which was about four times higher than the growth rate of Canadian-born population of 3.3% in the same period.

China, the country of origin of immigrants, ranks first, accounting for 14%.

The Bureau of Statistics announced yesterday the distribution of population structure in Canada from 200/KLOC-0 to 2006. Based on the analysis of the immigration background in the past five years, China has become the main source of new immigrants in Canada, with 14% of new immigrants from China pouring into Canada during this period, followed by India, the Philippines, Pakistan and other countries.

Compared with 654.38+600,000 people in 2006, there were 654.38+600,000 people in Canada in 2006, two thirds of whom were immigrants. Obviously, new immigrants have become the main force of Canada's population growth. Every year, the average number of immigrants to Canada reaches 240,000, and most of them are between the ages of 20 and 50, which fills the problem of low birth rate in China.

40% of the population in Dawen are immigrants.

Statistics from the Bureau of Statistics show that 86.8% of the overseas-born population are mainly distributed in Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia, which have absorbed 85.8% of all new immigrants since 200 1.

Further analysis of the overseas-born population data shows that119200 of the overseas-born population have settled in British Columbia, accounting for 27.5% of the province's population, accounting for 26. 1% and/kloc-respectively compared with 5438+0% in 2006. The proportion of overseas-born population in British Columbia is slightly lower than that in Ontario, which has 28.3% overseas-born population.