Statistics

In 2016, immigrants make up 21.9% 0f Canada’s population

Immigrants moved to Canada from 1852 to 2016

In 2016, 2,463,431 or 7% of Canada’s population resided in the Vancouver Census Metropolitan Area (CMA).

In 2016, 4,098,927 or 11.7% of Canada’s population resided in the Montreal Census Metropolitan Area (CMA).

The city of Toronto concentrated 46.1% of the population, followed by Mississauga (12.2%), Brampton (10%), Markham (5.5%) and Vaughan (5.2%).

Over the past decade, the number of Million Cities (with at least one million inhabitants) in Canada remained unchanged –yet these CMAs became more crowded.

From 2000 to 2015, a total of 161,144* people moved to Canada under the entrepreneur1, investor2 and Start-up3 programs (including Quebec).

From 1971 to 2015, the old dependency ratio increased from 12.5% to 23.8%. 

The UK and Colonies, France and Romania were the top European immigration source countries.

The United States of America, Colombia and Mexico were the top American immigration source countries.

In 2016, Canada’s population was estimated at 36,048,500.