Statistics Canada forecasts that Canada’s immigrant population will continue to rise, as high as 34% by 2041. Between 2016 and 2021, over 1.3 million new permanent residents settled in Canada and over half of these arrived under the economic class
A whopping 23 per cent of Canada’s population is, or has been, a landed immigrant or permanent resident of the country, a new report showed. The report, titled “Portrait of Immigration to Canada”, shows that Canada has a total of 8.3 million immigrants, making it the largest immigrant share of Canada’s population ever.
Statistics Canada forecasts that Canada’s immigrant population will continue to rise, as high as 34% by 2041. Between 2016 and 2021, over 1.3 million new permanent residents settled in Canada and over half of these arrived under the economic class.
As more than one in five Canadians are near the age of retirement, about 10.9% of the new immigrants that arrived in Canada between 2016 and 2021 were young: aged between 15 and 24 years. The vast majority were core-aged workers who were between 25 to 54 years old. Children below 15 represented 17.1% of newcomer arrivals
Of these, over one-third lived in Canada before gaining permanent residence. Between 2016 and 2021, immigrants accounted for about 80% of Canada’s labour force growth, the data showed.
Some 62% of the recent immigrant arrivals were born in Asia, with 18.6% coming from India alone while the Philippines accounts for 11.4% of newcomers, followed by China at 8.9%.
As more than one in five Canadians are near the age of retirement, about 10.9% of the new immigrants that arrived in Canada between 2016 and 2021 were young: aged between 15 and 24 years. The vast majority were core-aged workers who were between 25 to 54 years old. Children below 15 represented 17.1% of newcomer arrivals.
In 2022, Canada is looking to welcome some 432,000 new immigrants in the country.
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