Canada First Immigration Reform Committee

IMMIGRANT POPULATION, BY PLACE OF BIRTH
& PERIOD OF IMMIGRATION
(per Statistics Canada)

Place of birth

Percent before 1961

Percent between 1988-1991

United Kingdom

26.5

3.8

Southern Europe

20.7

5.0

Western Europe

21.4

2.4

Eastern Europe

17.7

10.7

Eastern Asia

1.8

20.0

South East Asia

0.2

13.2

United States

5.0

3.1

Caribbean and Bermuda

0.7

5.4

Southern Asia

0.4

8.8

Africa

0.5

6.9

South America

0.4

4.6

Western Asia and Middle East

0.4

10.0

Other Northen Europe

3.8

0.7

Central America

0.2

4.5

Oceania and other countries

0.5

0.8