Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity Highlight Tables

Immigrant population by place of birth, period of immigration, 2016 counts, both sexes, age (total), Ajax, 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}	46,335	11,240	7,525	12,255	6,805	4,930	3,580
Afghanistan	1,665	10	205	635	485	195	140
Åland Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	15	0	0	0	15	0	0
Algeria	10	0	0	10	0	0	0
American Samoa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Angola	10	0	0	10	0	0	10
Anguilla	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Antigua and Barbuda	65	40	15	0	0	0	0
Argentina	45	10	15	15	0	0	0
Armenia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Aruba	15	0	10	0	0	0	0
Australia	45	15	10	10	10	0	0
Austria	60	55	10	0	0	0	0
Azerbaijan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bahamas	25	10	10	10	0	0	0
Bahrain	25	0	0	20	0	10	0
Bangladesh	665	15	60	180	210	120	75
Barbados	390	210	90	45	20	10	10
Belarus	30	0	0	0	15	0	10
Belgium	35	25	0	0	0	10	0
Belize	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Benin	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bermuda	10	10	0	0	0	0	0
Bhutan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bolivia ^{Footnote 3}	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnia and Herzegovina	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Botswana	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Brazil	85	15	10	0	25	10	25
British Indian Ocean Territory	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Brunei Darussalam	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgaria	50	0	0	10	30	10	0
Burkina Faso	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Burma (Myanmar)	30	0	0	10	10	0	0
Burundi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cabo Verde	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cambodia	30	10	20	0	0	0	0
Cameroon	40	0	0	0	0	15	10
Cayman Islands	20	0	0	10	0	10	0
Central African Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chad	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chile	100	40	20	10	0	20	10
China ^{Footnote 17}	1,185	55	110	305	375	200	140
Christmas Island	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Colombia	145	0	10	25	50	40	15
Comoros	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Congo, Democratic Republic of the	175	0	10	65	80	10	15
Congo, Republic of the	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cook Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Costa Rica	15	0	10	10	0	0	0
Croatia	65	50	0	15	0	0	0
Cuba	85	0	0	10	25	40	0
Curaçao	20	20	0	0	0	0	0
Cyprus	50	40	10	0	0	0	0
Czech Republic	45	35	0	0	0	0	0
Côte d'Ivoire	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Denmark	40	35	0	10	0	0	0
Djibouti	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dominica	110	35	15	35	0	10	10
Dominican Republic	35	0	0	0	20	10	0
Ecuador	40	30	0	10	0	0	10
Egypt	450	30	50	155	95	90	35
El Salvador	135	0	55	40	0	10	15
Equatorial Guinea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Eritrea	20	0	10	0	0	0	15
Estonia	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ethiopia	160	0	65	65	15	0	15
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Faroe Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fiji	65	10	20	25	0	0	0
Finland	35	25	10	0	0	0	0
France	85	25	0	15	10	25	10
French Guiana	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
French Polynesia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gabon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gambia	10	0	10	0	10	0	0
Georgia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Germany	435	390	20	10	10	0	10
Ghana	260	45	100	60	20	15	25
Gibraltar	10	10	0	0	0	0	0
Greece	295	275	10	15	0	0	0
Greenland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Grenada	320	135	60	75	30	20	0
Guadeloupe	0	0	0	0	10	0	0
Guam	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Guatemala	120	0	30	25	0	35	25
Guernsey	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Guinea	15	0	0	10	0	0	0
Guinea-Bissau	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Guyana	3,210	930	870	770	355	215	70
Haiti	60	10	20	0	15	15	0
Holy See (Vatican City State)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Honduras	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hong Kong ^{Footnote 18}	400	120	145	115	10	10	10
Hungary	95	45	20	10	10	0	0
Iceland	0	10	0	0	0	0	0
India	4,090	450	370	950	980	745	590
Indonesia	65	0	15	10	15	20	0
Iran ^{Footnote 14}	260	0	90	95	0	40	35
Iraq	185	0	15	60	20	65	30
Ireland ^{Footnote 6}	130	95	10	10	0	0	10
Isle of Man	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Israel	55	10	10	10	10	10	15
Italy	505	475	30	0	0	0	0
Jamaica	5,100	1,855	1,015	1,215	385	400	230
Japan	30	10	0	10	10	10	10
Jersey	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jordan	35	0	10	10	0	0	15
Kazakhstan	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kenya	200	50	95	20	15	15	0
Kiribati	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Korea, North ^{Footnote 19}	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Korea, South ^{Footnote 20}	95	50	10	35	0	0	0
Kosovo ^{Footnote 8}	35	0	0	0	0	0	35
Kuwait	140	0	20	60	30	0	30
Kyrgyzstan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Laos ^{Footnote 22}	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Latvia	10	0	0	0	0	0	10
Lebanon	380	80	90	120	15	40	30
Lesotho	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Liberia	10	0	0	0	0	10	10
Libya	35	0	0	15	10	0	10
Liechtenstein	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lithuania	10	10	0	0	0	0	0
Luxembourg	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Macao ^{Footnote 21}	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Macedonia, Republic of ^{Footnote 9}	240	105	50	45	25	0	0
Madagascar	0	0	10	0	0	10	0
Malawi	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malaysia	75	0	25	35	15	0	0
Maldives	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mali	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malta	50	45	0	0	0	0	0
Marshall Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Martinique	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mauritania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mauritius	75	0	20	0	10	40	0
Mayotte	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mexico	90	10	15	20	20	15	15
Micronesia, Federated States of	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Moldova ^{Footnote 5}	25	0	0	0	0	0	15
Monaco	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mongolia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Montenegro	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Montserrat	20	20	0	0	0	0	0
Morocco	40	0	0	10	20	0	0
Mozambique	0	0	10	0	0	0	0
Namibia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nauru	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nepal	10	0	0	0	0	0	10
Netherlands	135	115	10	10	0	0	10
New Caledonia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
New Zealand	30	15	0	10	0	0	0
Nicaragua	50	0	30	15	0	0	0
Niger	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nigeria	365	10	25	90	55	125	50
Niue	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Norfolk Island	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Northern Mariana Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Norway	30	10	0	0	0	0	15
Oman	20	0	0	15	10	0	0
Other places of birth ^{Footnote 23}	0	0	0	10	0	0	0
Pakistan	3,570	210	240	1,215	925	475	505
Palau	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Panama	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Papua New Guinea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Paraguay	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Peru	110	20	60	0	0	10	20
Philippines	3,840	435	650	1,045	695	540	475
Pitcairn	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Poland	380	15	210	105	30	10	0
Portugal	425	300	75	40	0	10	0
Puerto Rico	10	0	10	0	0	0	0
Qatar	10	0	0	0	0	10	0
Romania	340	15	60	90	100	40	30
Russian Federation	95	0	0	35	25	30	10
Rwanda	25	10	0	10	0	10	0
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	70	45	10	10	0	0	0
Saint Lucia	130	25	10	15	30	20	30
Saint Martin (French part)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	360	170	55	45	20	35	30
Samoa	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
Saudi Arabia	195	0	10	110	60	10	15
Senegal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Serbia ^{Footnote 10}	50	30	0	15	0	0	0
Seychelles	25	0	10	10	10	0	0
Sierra Leone	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Singapore	55	10	15	10	10	0	15
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Slovakia	45	25	10	0	15	0	0
Slovenia	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Solomon Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Somalia	90	0	30	50	0	0	0
South Africa, Republic of	155	90	35	20	0	0	0
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
South Sudan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Spain	25	20	0	0	10	0	0
Sri Lanka	4,390	50	745	2,200	620	575	195
Sudan ^{Footnote 13}	85	0	15	40	30	0	0
Suriname	30	10	10	0	0	10	0
Svalbard and Jan Mayen	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Swaziland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sweden	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Switzerland	30	15	0	0	0	0	0
Syria ^{Footnote 15}	85	10	0	25	30	10	10
Taiwan	80	0	0	65	10	0	0
Tajikistan	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tanzania ^{Footnote 12}	220	85	40	45	15	10	30
Thailand	40	0	10	10	10	10	10
Timor-Leste	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Togo	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tokelau	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tonga	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Trinidad and Tobago	2,230	815	510	690	90	65	60
Tunisia	15	0	0	0	0	0	20
Turkey	60	0	20	20	15	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
Uganda	100	45	25	10	15	0	10
Ukraine	100	15	0	40	25	10	10
United Arab Emirates	245	0	30	80	65	35	35
United Kingdom ^{Footnote 7}	2,905	2,145	360	210	80	55	50
United States ^{Footnote 2}	755	235	55	115	105	155	95
United States Minor Outlying Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Uruguay	15	0	0	20	0	0	0
Uzbekistan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Vanuatu	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Venezuela ^{Footnote 4}	45	0	10	10	0	25	0
Viet Nam	340	105	85	60	25	15	35
Virgin Islands, British	0	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
West Bank and Gaza Strip (Palestine) ^{Footnote 16}	35	25	10	0	0	0	0
Western Sahara	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yemen	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Zambia	20	0	0	10	10	0	10
Zimbabwe	75	0	0	10	35	20	10

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Note(s): 1

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.