Immigration to Quebec, Canada | Annual Arrivals and Census Trends
In 2025, Quebec was the destination for 60,105 new immigrants.
Source: IRCC
- In 2025, 393,530 new permanent residents were admitted to Canada, 15.3% of them landed in Quebec.
- From 2020 to 2025, Quebec was the destination choice of 316,590 new immigrants.
- Quebec attracts the second-largest share of immigrants to Canada.
Immigration to Quebec by Class
In 2025, economic immigrants made up 70.5% of Quebec’s new permanent residents, while family sponsorships accounted for 17.2% and refugees comprised 11%.
Source: IRCC
- From 2016 to 2025, Quebec admitted a total of 319,160 economic immigrants, 110,890 family immigrants, and 72,985 refugees.
- Except for the economic stream, refugee and family immigration remained stable between 2016 and 2019. After a pandemic-driven downturn in 2020, an upward trend persisted through 2022, culminating in a contraction across all admissions classes after that.
- Compared to 2024 levels, 2025 immigration admissions increased in the economic category (2.8%), followed by a contraction in the family class by 0.3%, and the refugee class by 5.4%.
Provincial metrics tell only half the story; continue analyzing the data by exploring our Immigration to Montreal report.
IMMIGRATION TO QUEBEC – ANIMATED CHARTS
