Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity Highlight Tables

Immigrant population by place of birth, period of immigration, 2016 counts, both sexes, age (total), British Columbia, 2016 Census – 25% Sample data ^{Update of the 2016 Census data on ethnic origin}

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Place of birth	Period of immigration
Place of birth	Total immigrant population	Before 1981	1981 to 1990	1991 to 2000	2001 to 2005	2006 to 2010	2011 to 2016

Total - Place of birth ^{Footnote 1}	1,292,675	356,155	152,225	287,505	147,730	173,510	175,550
Åland Islands	10	0	0	0	0	10	0
American Samoa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Anguilla	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Aruba	85	60	10	15	0	10	0
Benin	35	0	10	0	0	20	0
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Botswana	65	0	0	10	0	20	30
British Indian Ocean Territory	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Burkina Faso	20	0	0	0	0	0	10
Cabo Verde	20	10	10	0	0	0	0
Cameroon	120	10	10	0	0	40	60
Central African Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Christmas Island	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Comoros	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cook Islands	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Curaçao	45	20	15	10	0	0	0
Djibouti	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dominica	60	40	0	0	0	0	10
Equatorial Guinea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Faroe Islands	10	0	0	10	0	0	0
French Guiana	10	0	10	0	0	0	0
Gambia	20	0	0	0	0	10	10
Gibraltar	45	30	10	0	0	0	10
Greenland	30	10	10	10	0	10	0
Guadeloupe	10	10	0	0	0	0	0
Holy See (Vatican City State)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Isle of Man	130	95	10	15	0	15	0
Jersey	110	45	0	20	0	20	25
Kiribati	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lesotho	20	0	0	10	0	10	0
Liechtenstein	20	0	10	10	0	0	0
Malawi	115	40	30	15	0	10	15
Maldives	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malta	480	415	20	25	0	15	0
Marshall Islands	10	0	10	0	0	0	0
Martinique	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mauritania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mayotte	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Micronesia, Federated States of	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Monaco	15	10	0	0	0	0	0
Montserrat	10	10	0	0	0	0	0
Nauru	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
New Caledonia	30	10	20	0	0	0	0
Niger	15	0	0	10	0	0	10
Niue	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Norfolk Island	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Palau	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pitcairn	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Qatar	115	0	0	25	0	40	45
Réunion	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Barthélemy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Helena ^{Footnote 11}	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Kitts and Nevis	105	90	0	10	0	0	0
Saint Lucia	140	75	25	15	0	25	0
Saint Martin (French part)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
San Marino	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sao Tome and Principe	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sark	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Seychelles	70	10	20	25	0	0	0
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	25	0	0	10	0	10	10
Solomon Islands	0	0	0	10	0	0	0
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Svalbard and Jan Mayen	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Timor-Leste	10	10	0	0	0	0	0
Togo	70	0	0	30	0	30	10
Tokelau	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turkmenistan	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turks and Caicos Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tuvalu	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
United States Minor Outlying Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Vanuatu	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Virgin Islands, British	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Virgin Islands, United States	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wallis and Futuna	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Western Sahara	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Antigua and Barbuda	125	65	25	20	10	10	0
Belize	115	60	25	15	10	10	0
Bhutan	125	0	0	0	10	60	55
Burundi	195	25	15	20	10	90	40
Chad	25	0	10	0	10	10	10
French Polynesia	35	15	15	0	10	0	0
Gabon	10	0	0	0	10	0	0
Grenada	215	140	15	40	10	10	10
Guam	10	0	0	0	10	0	0
Guernsey	60	50	0	0	10	0	0
Guinea-Bissau	10	0	0	0	10	0	0
Korea, North ^{Footnote 19}	170	110	10	35	10	0	10
Madagascar	60	0	25	0	10	10	15
Mali	35	0	0	15	10	0	15
Papua New Guinea	50	15	10	20	10	0	10
Samoa	85	30	20	15	10	10	0
Senegal	55	0	20	0	10	10	10
Suriname	115	40	15	15	10	35	0
Swaziland	45	10	0	10	10	15	0
Tonga	95	25	20	10	10	25	10
Yemen	160	30	25	20	10	20	50
Angola	150	95	15	15	15	10	0
Bahamas	115	55	0	25	15	10	10
Bahrain	175	15	10	65	15	25	45
Congo, Republic of the	60	15	15	0	15	20	0
Iceland	150	50	10	30	15	10	40
Mozambique	170	110	15	25	15	10	0
Northern Mariana Islands	45	0	10	10	15	15	0
Slovenia	1,150	960	20	65	15	30	55
Bermuda	265	160	15	20	20	20	30
Cayman Islands	35	0	10	0	20	10	10
Guinea	60	10	0	20	20	10	10
Luxembourg	110	55	0	20	20	10	10
Oman	180	0	0	75	20	25	55
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	245	115	30	30	20	30	20
Barbados	645	415	55	75	25	45	30
Côte d'Ivoire	75	10	10	15	25	10	20
Denmark	4,640	4,085	225	165	25	60	75
Estonia	465	305	15	75	25	10	25
Panama	185	30	30	70	25	10	20
Puerto Rico	80	25	0	0	25	0	20
Bolivia ^{Footnote 3}	315	85	35	20	30	100	40
Brunei Darussalam	2,050	575	1,010	335	30	85	10
Eritrea	740	0	180	105	30	95	320
Montenegro	200	50	0	85	30	20	10
Other places of birth ^{Footnote 23}	185	75	20	40	30	15	10
Tunisia	270	60	25	45	30	35	75
Uruguay	310	140	45	65	30	15	10
Cyprus	300	170	35	35	35	20	10
West Bank and Gaza Strip (Palestine) ^{Footnote 16}	495	135	45	125	35	55	95
Dominican Republic	370	25	55	35	40	85	130
Haiti	565	85	55	235	40	110	40
Mongolia	220	0	0	0	40	90	95
Nicaragua	1,235	30	620	325	40	130	95
Norway	1,620	1,385	50	45	40	55	45
Greece	3,635	2,905	270	160	45	110	140
Namibia	215	25	15	25	45	30	75
Guyana	1,305	860	195	140	50	30	25
Laos ^{Footnote 22}	1,645	780	585	145	50	65	20
Latvia	640	325	25	130	50	35	75
Rwanda	220	10	0	40	50	80	40
Sierra Leone	150	10	20	20	50	25	25
Paraguay	1,745	1,325	95	135	55	110	20
Uganda	2,760	2,150	220	140	55	85	115
Zambia	600	240	85	95	55	70	55
Armenia	255	10	0	25	60	100	55
Lithuania	405	180	25	50	60	35	50
Cambodia	1,895	245	1,030	265	65	140	150
Georgia	200	10	0	65	65	40	20
Libya	420	30	20	70	65	125	115
Spain	1,560	740	135	165	65	115	350
Costa Rica	525	75	80	125	70	70	100
Ecuador	535	105	40	50	70	135	130
Macao ^{Footnote 21}	2,140	570	515	900	70	30	55
Kuwait	745	15	75	295	75	135	155
Macedonia, Republic of ^{Footnote 9}	290	55	25	60	75	45	35
Finland	2,735	2,305	115	115	80	45	70
Azerbaijan	320	0	10	55	85	120	60
Liberia	270	0	0	40	85	100	40
Tajikistan	165	0	0	20	85	30	20
Austria	3,665	2,710	300	330	90	90	145
Ghana	885	165	130	220	90	155	120
Tanzania ^{Footnote 12}	3,020	2,075	465	230	90	105	60
Trinidad and Tobago	2,615	1,690	410	285	90	100	45
Morocco	985	220	155	105	95	205	205
Portugal	8,210	6,880	725	285	95	85	140
Algeria	485	80	45	125	100	80	60
Guatemala	1,930	55	775	615	100	230	160
Ireland ^{Footnote 6}	5,890	2,960	615	340	100	440	1,435
Cuba	680	50	55	110	105	210	140
Somalia	1,085	15	140	270	105	195	355
Belgium	1,515	855	90	155	120	120	170
Congo, Democratic Republic of the	760	70	20	115	125	290	150
Kyrgyzstan	505	20	0	85	125	150	125
Syria ^{Footnote 15}	2,845	120	75	165	125	180	2,185
Sudan ^{Footnote 13}	510	10	50	140	130	60	120
Sweden	2,235	1,315	185	255	130	180	165
Chile	3,275	1,735	620	330	150	245	190
Jordan	935	55	55	185	155	140	350
Honduras	1,220	75	260	310	160	145	275
Moldova ^{Footnote 5}	865	15	25	145	160	280	240
Albania	470	0	10	125	170	105	65
Italy	15,400	13,470	500	340	170	275	645
Nepal	1,035	10	15	120	175	415	315
Saudi Arabia	1,345	0	100	290	180	380	395
Jamaica	3,500	1,815	350	390	185	130	625
Czech Republic	5,605	3,000	1,390	500	190	160	355
Venezuela ^{Footnote 4}	1,480	210	135	320	195	355	275
Zimbabwe	1,610	385	305	300	195	260	160
Uzbekistan	550	0	10	105	200	125	100
Lebanon	2,235	525	505	480	205	260	265
Kosovo ^{Footnote 8}	740	10	25	385	210	65	50
Mauritius	1,240	240	155	120	210	335	175
Belarus	1,005	55	50	260	215	240	185
South Sudan	440	0	20	115	215	75	15
Burma (Myanmar)	2,040	340	140	420	230	570	345
Nigeria	1,740	95	95	190	235	490	640
Croatia	5,775	3,925	260	1,130	240	75	150
Bosnia and Herzegovina	4,575	545	75	3,330	255	140	225
El Salvador	5,420	90	2,575	1,675	280	375	430
Switzerland	4,385	2,145	615	860	280	245	235
Egypt	2,705	600	175	430	300	570	625
Kenya	4,705	2,035	870	680	315	370	435
United Arab Emirates	1,605	0	40	425	315	435	390
New Zealand	4,525	2,155	530	480	325	405	630
Turkey	2,065	360	220	310	330	450	395
Hungary	6,175	3,855	935	485	340	290	275
Kazakhstan	1,320	25	10	365	375	295	260
Ethiopia	2,075	75	310	515	380	490	305
Peru	3,265	545	680	635	430	630	350
Israel	2,225	425	230	320	435	455	360
Argentina	1,830	510	250	245	445	185	195
Brazil	3,800	610	230	545	450	820	1,145
Bangladesh	2,125	60	110	575	485	420	470
France	5,700	2,315	560	755	490	615	970
Poland	15,115	3,990	6,290	3,445	490	485	410
Slovakia	3,065	850	580	640	500	225	275
Serbia ^{Footnote 10}	4,480	860	235	2,255	510	240	390
Netherlands	18,225	14,870	1,090	730	545	585	400
Malaysia	8,435	2,375	2,495	1,490	555	950	575
Thailand	3,640	215	690	580	565	935	650
Bulgaria	2,050	85	70	735	580	430	155
Singapore	5,425	840	1,190	1,380	625	975	410
Iraq	5,550	185	205	1,210	655	1,390	1,910
Indonesia	4,735	1,185	480	990	710	660	710
Australia	8,605	3,280	575	1,050	730	1,045	1,920
Sri Lanka	4,585	365	615	1,305	860	910	530
Colombia	3,915	285	190	715	985	1,160	575
Ukraine	7,500	1,585	160	2,245	1,320	965	1,230
Germany	35,045	23,850	3,145	3,230	1,330	2,045	1,450
Fiji	17,530	6,625	3,855	4,105	1,380	945	615
Viet Nam	27,875	5,980	10,015	6,685	1,400	2,015	1,780
Afghanistan	5,040	40	560	1,160	1,440	970	870
Mexico	10,375	1,005	915	1,870	1,475	2,230	2,880
Japan	13,360	2,980	1,185	2,960	1,670	2,280	2,285
South Africa, Republic of	13,375	3,125	1,535	4,110	1,690	1,285	1,625
Romania	9,000	800	1,060	3,265	1,855	1,320	690
Hong Kong ^{Footnote 18}	74,210	17,135	16,435	34,935	2,155	1,750	1,805
Pakistan	10,665	880	600	3,240	2,280	1,710	1,960
Russian Federation	10,920	745	190	3,120	2,840	2,285	1,735
United Kingdom ^{Footnote 7}	123,810	84,845	10,875	8,245	4,655	8,655	6,535
United States ^{Footnote 2}	57,780	27,355	5,805	6,285	4,700	7,150	6,485
Taiwan	38,900	1,535	3,135	21,315	5,260	5,155	2,505
Iran ^{Footnote 14}	37,160	1,070	4,605	10,580	5,865	6,400	8,645
Korea, South ^{Footnote 20}	41,510	2,725	3,000	10,555	8,630	8,570	8,025
Philippines	112,100	10,570	10,335	26,565	14,860	23,085	26,685
India	162,645	26,770	18,390	42,115	22,785	25,130	27,460
China ^{Footnote 17}	199,990	21,630	17,295	45,180	37,130	40,645	38,110

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

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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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China excludes Hong Kong and Macao.

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The full name of Hong Kong is the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China.

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The official name of North Korea is Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

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The official name of South Korea is Republic of Korea.