Statistics

Top source countries of new Permanent Residents admitted to Canada in 2025

393,530 permanent resident admissions to Canada in 2025.

Immigrants make up 23% of Canada’s population.

According to the 2021 Census, 8,361,505 foreign-born people resided in Canada which accounted for 23% of Canada’s population.

In 2017, 4.6M people Live in Poverty in Canada

Most popular occupation in Canada: Retail salesperson The most popular occupations in Canada are retail salesperson, motor vehicle and transit

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).