Data tables, 2016 Census

Citizenship (5), Place of Birth (272), Immigrant Status and Period of Immigration (11), Age (12) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2016 Census - 25% Sample Data

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Immigrant status and period of immigration (11)^{Footnote 1}

Age (12)

Sex (3)

This table details citizenship , place of birth , immigrant status and period of immigration , age and sex for the population in private households in Northwest Territories / Territoires du Nord-Ouest
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Place of birth (272)	Citizenship (5)
Place of birth (272)	Total - Citizenship^Footnote 2	Canadian citizens^Footnote 3	Canadian citizens only	Citizens of Canada and at least one other country	Not Canadian citizens^Footnote 4
Total - Place of birth^{Footnote 5}	41,135	39,580	38,880	700	1,550
Born in Canada	37,035	37,035	36,865	170	0
Born outside Canada	4,100	2,550	2,015	530	1,550
Americas	540	345	240	110	190
North America	245	155	110	45	90
Greenland	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	0	0	0	0
United States^{Footnote 6}	245	160	110	45	90
Central America	85	60	35	25	25
Belize	0	0	0	10	0
Costa Rica	0	0	0	0	0
El Salvador	20	25	15	10	0
Guatemala	10	10	10	0	0
Honduras	0	0	0	0	0
Mexico	45	20	15	10	25
Nicaragua	0	0	0	0	0
Panama	0	0	0	0	0
Caribbean and Bermuda	145	75	60	15	65
Anguilla	0	0	0	0	0
Antigua and Barbuda	0	0	0	0	0
Aruba	0	0	0	0	0
Bahamas	0	0	0	0	0
Barbados	0	0	0	0	0
Bermuda	0	0	0	0	0
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	0	0	0	0	0
Cayman Islands	0	0	0	0	0
Cuba	0	0	0	0	0
Curaçao	0	0	0	0	0
Dominica	15	15	0	10	0
Dominican Republic	0	0	0	0	10
Grenada	0	10	10	0	0
Guadeloupe	0	0	0	0	0
Haiti	0	10	10	0	0
Jamaica	90	40	35	0	55
Martinique	0	0	0	0	0
Montserrat	0	0	0	0	0
Puerto Rico	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Barthélemy	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Lucia	10	0	0	0	0
Saint Martin (French part)	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0	0	0	0	0
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	0	0	0	0	0
Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	10	0	0
Turks and Caicos Islands	0	0	0	0	0
Virgin Islands, British	0	0	0	0	0
Virgin Islands, United States	0	0	0	0	0
South America	70	55	35	20	10
Argentina	0	0	0	0	0
Bolivia^{Footnote 7}	10	10	10	0	0
Brazil	15	10	0	10	10
Chile	10	0	0	0	0
Colombia	15	15	10	10	10
Ecuador	0	0	0	0	0
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	0	0	0	0	0
French Guiana	0	0	0	0	0
Guyana	0	0	0	0	0
Paraguay	0	0	0	0	0
Peru	10	10	10	0	0
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	0	0	0	0	0
Suriname	0	0	0	0	0
Uruguay	0	0	0	0	0
Venezuela^{Footnote 8}	10	10	0	10	0
Europe	880	650	485	165	230
Western Europe	265	195	165	30	70
Austria	0	10	10	0	0
Belgium	10	10	10	0	0
France	40	25	15	10	20
Germany	165	130	115	15	40
Liechtenstein	0	0	0	0	0
Luxembourg	0	0	0	0	0
Monaco	0	0	0	0	0
Netherlands	35	30	20	10	10
Switzerland	10	0	10	0	0
Eastern Europe	115	100	75	20	20
Belarus	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgaria	0	0	0	0	0
Czech Republic	20	15	10	0	0
Estonia	0	0	0	0	0
Hungary	10	10	10	0	0
Latvia	0	0	0	0	0
Lithuania	0	0	0	0	0
Moldova^{Footnote 9}	0	0	0	0	0
Poland	25	15	15	0	0
Romania	10	10	0	0	0
Russian Federation	15	20	0	10	0
Slovakia	25	25	25	0	0
Ukraine	10	0	0	0	0
Northern Europe	395	270	175	90	125
Åland Islands	0	0	0	0	0
Denmark	0	10	0	0	0
Faroe Islands	0	0	0	0	0
Finland	10	10	10	10	0
Guernsey	0	0	0	0	0
Iceland	0	0	0	0	0
Ireland^{Footnote 10}	35	10	10	10	15
Isle of Man	0	0	0	0	0
Jersey	0	0	0	0	0
Norway	10	0	0	0	0
Sark	0	0	0	0	0
Svalbard and Jan Mayen	0	0	0	0	0
Sweden	0	10	0	0	0
United Kingdom^{Footnote 11}	350	240	165	80	105
Southern Europe	105	85	65	20	15
Albania	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	0	0	0
Croatia	15	10	10	0	0
Gibraltar	0	0	0	0	0
Greece	10	10	10	0	0
Holy See (Vatican City State)	0	0	0	0	0
Italy	45	35	20	15	0
Kosovo^{Footnote 12}	0	0	0	0	0
Macedonia, Republic of^{Footnote 13}	20	20	20	0	0
Malta	0	0	0	0	0
Montenegro	0	0	0	0	0
Portugal	10	0	0	0	0
San Marino	0	0	0	0	0
Serbia^{Footnote 14}	10	0	10	0	0
Slovenia	10	0	0	0	10
Spain	0	0	0	0	0
Africa	530	330	250	75	205
Western Africa	100	65	55	10	35
Benin	0	0	0	0	0
Burkina Faso	0	0	0	0	0
Cabo Verde	0	0	0	0	0
Côte d'Ivoire	0	0	0	0	0
Gambia	0	0	0	0	0
Ghana	30	25	30	0	10
Guinea	0	0	0	0	0
Guinea-Bissau	0	0	0	0	0
Liberia	0	0	0	0	0
Mali	0	0	0	0	0
Mauritania	0	0	0	0	0
Niger	0	0	0	0	0
Nigeria	55	20	10	0	35
Saint Helena^{Footnote 15}	0	0	0	0	0
Senegal	0	0	0	0	0
Sierra Leone	15	10	15	0	0
Togo	0	0	0	0	0
Eastern Africa	250	145	115	35	100
Burundi	0	0	0	0	0
Comoros	0	0	0	0	0
Djibouti	0	0	0	0	0
Eritrea	15	15	10	0	10
Ethiopia	30	25	20	0	10
Kenya	10	10	0	0	0
Madagascar	0	0	0	0	0
Malawi	0	0	0	0	0
Mauritius	20	20	0	20	0
Mayotte	0	0	0	0	0
Mozambique	0	0	0	0	0
Réunion	0	0	0	0	0
Rwanda	10	0	0	0	0
Seychelles	0	0	0	0	0
Somalia	30	15	15	0	15
South Sudan	20	20	15	0	10
Tanzania^{Footnote 16}	0	0	10	0	0
Uganda	35	15	10	0	30
Zambia	10	10	10	0	10
Zimbabwe	70	35	30	0	35
Northern Africa	100	75	40	35	25
Algeria	15	0	0	0	15
Egypt	0	10	0	10	0
Libya	0	0	0	0	0
Morocco	25	15	15	0	10
Sudan^{Footnote 17}	55	60	25	30	0
Tunisia	0	0	0	0	0
Western Sahara	0	0	0	0	0
Central Africa	0	0	0	0	0
Angola	0	0	0	0	0
Cameroon	0	0	0	0	0
Central African Republic	0	0	0	0	0
Chad	0	0	0	0	0
Congo, Democratic Republic of the	0	0	0	0	0
Congo, Republic of the	0	0	0	0	0
Equatorial Guinea	0	0	0	0	0
Gabon	0	0	0	0	0
Sao Tome and Principe	0	0	0	0	0
Southern Africa	80	40	40	0	40
Botswana	0	0	0	0	0
Lesotho	0	0	0	0	0
Namibia	25	0	0	0	20
South Africa, Republic of	50	35	35	0	15
Swaziland	0	0	0	0	0
Asia	2,095	1,200	1,025	175	895
West Central Asia and the Middle East	130	85	50	35	45
Afghanistan	10	10	10	0	0
Armenia	10	10	0	0	0
Azerbaijan	0	0	0	0	0
Bahrain	0	0	0	0	0
Cyprus	0	0	0	0	0
Georgia	0	0	0	0	0
Iran^{Footnote 18}	40	25	0	15	10
Iraq	0	0	0	0	0
Israel	15	0	0	0	15
Jordan	10	0	0	0	0
Kazakhstan	0	0	0	0	0
Kuwait	10	0	10	0	0
Kyrgyzstan	0	10	0	0	0
Lebanon	10	0	10	0	0
Oman	0	0	0	0	0
Qatar	0	0	0	0	0
Saudi Arabia	0	0	0	0	0
Syria^{Footnote 19}	10	10	10	0	0
Tajikistan	0	0	0	0	0
Turkey	10	0	10	0	0
Turkmenistan	10	10	0	0	0
United Arab Emirates	15	10	10	0	10
Uzbekistan	0	0	0	0	0
West Bank and Gaza Strip (Palestine)^{Footnote 20}	0	0	0	0	0
Yemen	10	0	0	0	0
Eastern Asia	320	170	165	10	155
China^{Footnote 21}	115	75	75	0	35
Hong Kong^{Footnote 22}	35	30	25	10	0
Japan	75	10	10	0	60
Korea, North^{Footnote 23}	0	0	0	0	0
Korea, South^{Footnote 24}	80	45	40	0	35
Macao^{Footnote 25}	0	0	0	0	0
Mongolia	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwan	15	10	0	0	10
Southeast Asia	1,235	655	590	65	575
Brunei Darussalam	0	0	0	0	0
Burma (Myanmar)	0	0	0	0	0
Cambodia	0	0	0	0	0
Indonesia	0	0	0	0	0
Laos^{Footnote 26}	0	0	0	0	0
Malaysia	10	0	0	0	10
Philippines	1,025	510	470	45	515
Singapore	0	10	10	0	0
Thailand	10	0	0	0	10
Timor-Leste	0	0	0	0	0
Viet Nam	175	130	110	20	50
Southern Asia	410	290	225	65	120
Bangladesh	95	80	50	35	10
Bhutan	0	0	0	0	0
British Indian Ocean Territory	0	0	0	0	0
India	205	125	125	0	80
Maldives	0	0	0	0	0
Nepal	15	10	0	10	10
Pakistan	80	65	35	30	15
Sri Lanka	10	10	10	0	0
Oceania	50	25	15	0	30
American Samoa	0	0	0	0	0
Australia	35	15	10	10	25
Christmas Island	0	0	0	0	0
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	0	0	0	0	0
Cook Islands	0	0	0	0	0
Fiji	0	0	0	0	0
French Polynesia	0	0	0	0	0
Guam	0	0	0	0	0
Kiribati	0	0	0	0	0
Marshall Islands	0	0	0	0	0
Micronesia, Federated States of	0	0	0	0	0
Nauru	0	0	0	0	0
New Caledonia	0	0	0	0	0
New Zealand	15	10	10	0	0
Niue	0	0	0	0	0
Norfolk Island	0	0	0	0	0
Northern Mariana Islands	0	0	0	0	0
Palau	0	0	0	0	0
Papua New Guinea	0	0	0	0	0
Pitcairn	0	0	0	0	0
Samoa	0	0	0	0	0
Solomon Islands	0	0	0	0	0
Tokelau	0	0	0	0	0
Tonga	0	0	0	0	0
Tuvalu	0	0	0	0	0
United States Minor Outlying Islands	0	0	0	0	0
Vanuatu	0	0	0	0	0
Wallis and Futuna	0	0	0	0	0
Other places of birth^{Footnote 27}	0	0	0	0	0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1

Immigrant status refers to whether the person is a non-immigrant, an immigrant or a non-permanent resident.

Period of immigration refers to the period in which the immigrant first obtained landed immigrant or permanent resident status.

For more information on immigration variables, including information on their classifications, the questions from which they are derived, data quality and their comparability with other sources of data, please refer to the Place of Birth, Generation Status, Citizenship and Immigration Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2016.

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Footnote 2

For more information on citizenship variables, including information on their classifications, the questions from which they are derived, data quality and their comparability with other sources of data, please refer to the Place of Birth, Generation Status, Citizenship and Immigration Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2016.

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Footnote 3

'Canadian citizens' includes persons who are citizens of Canada only and persons who are citizens of Canada and at least one other country.

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Footnote 4

'Not Canadian citizens' includes persons who are not citizens of Canada. They may be citizens of one or more other countries. Persons who are stateless are included in this category.

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Footnote 5

For more information on the place of birth variables, including information on their classifications, the questions from which they are derived, data quality and their comparability with other sources of data, please refer to the Place of Birth, Generation Status, Citizenship and Immigration Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2016.

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Footnote 6

The official name of United States is United States of America.

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The official name of Bolivia is Plurinational State of Bolivia.

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Footnote 8

The official name of Venezuela is Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

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The official name of Moldova is Republic of Moldova.

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Footnote 10

Ireland is also referred to as Republic of Ireland.

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The official name of United Kingdom is United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. United Kingdom includes Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland (excludes Isle of Man, the Channel Islands and British Overseas Territories).

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The official name of Kosovo is Republic of Kosovo.

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Footnote 13

Macedonia, Republic of: known as the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia by the United Nations and other international bodies.

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Footnote 14

Serbia excludes Kosovo.

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The official name of Saint Helena is Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.

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The official name of Tanzania is United Republic of Tanzania.

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The full name of Sudan is the Republic of the Sudan.

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The official name of Iran is Islamic Republic of Iran.

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The official name of Syria is Syrian Arab Republic.

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West Bank and Gaza Strip (Palestine): West Bank and Gaza Strip are the territories referred to in the Declaration of Principles, signed by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1993. Palestine refers to pre-1948 British mandate Palestine.

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Footnote 21