Immigration to Alberta
In 2025, Alberta was the destination to 51,590 new immigrants.
In 2025, 393,530 new permanent residents were admitted to Canada, 13.1% of them landed in Alberta.
From 2020 to 2025, Alberta was the destination choice of 287,490 new immigrants.
Immigration to Alberta in Recent Years
Since 2020, immigration has fueled robust population growth in Alberta, particularly after the initial COVID slowdown. The province experienced strong inflows of both permanent residents and non permanent residents, with international migration accounting for over 70 percent of the more than 200,000 new residents added in 2023 24 alone and a record 60,254 permanent immigrants arriving that year. This surge, combined with significant interprovincial migration gains from provinces such as Ontario and British Columbia, pushed Alberta’s population past five million by mid 2025 and made it the fastest growing province in Canada for several years. More recently, federal cuts to temporary resident targets have moderated gains, with net international migration slowing and some quarters showing reduced inflows of non permanent residents, yet Alberta has continued to record positive overall net migration and population increases even as other provinces faced declines. Immigrants now represent about 23 percent of the provincial population.
