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By Anna Mehler Paperny
TORONTO (Reuters) – Immigrants’ share of Canada’s inhabitants has hit its highest level within the nation’s 150-year historical past and the most important share amongst G7 international locations, new knowledge launched by Statistics Canada confirmed on Wednesday.
Twenty-three % of Canadians had been immigrants in 2021, in response to the census, and Statistics Canada initiatives that between 29% and 34% of the inhabitants can be immigrants by 2041.
Canada’s authorities goals to usher in greater than 430,000 new everlasting residents this yr, a rise of about 7.4% from its record-setting 401,000 in 2021. Its immigration minister is anticipated to put out the federal government’s plans for future years’ immigration ranges subsequent week.
India, the Philippines and China had been the highest three international locations respectively for latest immigrants to Canada, in response to the census.
Newcomers have turn into the first driver of Canada’s inhabitants development and the nation’s financial engine within the context of an getting old inhabitants.
From 2016 to 2021, immigrants accounted for four-fifths of Canada’s labour market development, Statistics Canada mentioned. However they nonetheless reported larger unemployment charges that non-immigrants and had been extra more likely to be low-income.
Information launched Wednesday additionally spotlight Canada’s shift towards momentary residents to fulfill labour market wants. A better share of people that grew to become everlasting residents between 2016 and 2021 lived in Canada on momentary work or examine permits previous to acquiring everlasting residency than at any level since no less than 1980.
About 31% of immigrants who obtained everlasting residency between 2016 and 2021 having both a piece or examine allow or each, up from 13.1% between 2001 and 2010, in response to the census knowledge.
And whereas most new immigrants to Canada are nonetheless settling within the nation’s city centres, their share is shrinking: 53.4% of immigrants who arrived between 2016 and 2021 settled in both Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, in contrast with 54.9% of those that arrived between 2011 and 2015 and 62.8% of those that arrived between 2001 and 2010.
The Atlantic metropolis of Halifax, in the meantime, greater than doubled its share – from 0.6% of immigrants who grew to become everlasting residents between 2011 and 2015 to 1.3% of immigrants who acquired everlasting residency between 2016 and 2021. Fredericton, New Brunswick (NYSE:) doubled its share from 0.1% to 0.2%.
Originally published at Gold Coast News HQ
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