Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity Highlight Tables

Immigrant population by place of birth, period of immigration, 2016 counts, both sexes, age (total), Richmond, 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}	118,305	17,140	13,900	39,180	15,265	17,575	15,245
Hong Kong ^{Footnote 18}	23,185	2,990	5,000	13,320	760	620	485
China ^{Footnote 17}	42,750	2,305	2,550	10,545	8,230	10,175	8,945
Taiwan	7,525	250	585	4,470	925	820	470
Philippines	12,985	1,385	1,360	3,365	2,060	2,670	2,135
India	5,085	1,545	685	1,320	555	405	570
Pakistan	1,035	85	15	420	175	70	265
Japan	1,345	380	155	340	115	160	190
Russian Federation	990	65	15	335	295	120	155
Ukraine	655	55	25	320	125	60	70
Iran ^{Footnote 14}	745	30	105	290	125	110	80
Macao ^{Footnote 21}	495	70	105	285	10	15	15
United States ^{Footnote 2}	1,480	470	130	275	135	280	185
Korea, South ^{Footnote 20}	945	115	75	255	130	195	170
United Kingdom ^{Footnote 7}	2,760	1,970	315	240	90	120	35
South Africa, Republic of	500	120	60	205	65	10	35
Malaysia	1,035	275	330	195	70	110	60
Singapore	625	80	130	185	50	130	55
Viet Nam	1,045	265	455	180	40	30	65
Romania	285	35	25	155	55	15	10
Indonesia	455	45	35	145	50	105	75
Fiji	890	525	150	135	40	10	30
Mexico	430	40	40	130	90	50	75
Serbia ^{Footnote 10}	155	0	10	120	25	10	0
Sri Lanka	295	20	45	110	60	40	20
Iraq	415	0	20	105	70	90	125
Afghanistan	175	0	0	90	50	20	0
Bosnia and Herzegovina	105	0	0	85	0	10	10
Kenya	430	165	115	85	15	20	30
Burma (Myanmar)	195	30	25	80	25	10	30
Venezuela ^{Footnote 4}	115	10	15	65	10	10	0
Peru	285	60	45	55	40	60	20
Poland	340	125	135	55	15	10	0
Turkey	225	65	10	55	30	45	20
United Arab Emirates	110	0	0	55	25	15	10
Germany	725	540	55	45	0	50	35
Lebanon	105	15	20	45	10	10	20
Thailand	215	15	60	45	25	60	0
Brazil	155	20	10	40	0	40	45
Croatia	140	95	0	40	0	0	0
Bangladesh	105	0	10	35	25	15	10
Belarus	105	10	0	35	10	35	15
Brunei Darussalam	190	40	75	35	10	25	0
Egypt	225	45	0	35	55	45	50
Somalia	135	0	20	30	45	10	20
Chile	205	115	55	25	0	10	10
El Salvador	145	0	105	25	0	20	0
Israel	235	50	30	25	40	40	40
Nigeria	55	0	0	25	10	10	15
Oman	30	0	0	25	0	0	0
Trinidad and Tobago	195	145	20	25	0	10	0
Algeria	65	15	0	20	15	10	10
Costa Rica	45	10	10	20	0	0	0
Ethiopia	50	0	10	20	15	0	10
Guatemala	75	0	55	20	0	0	0
Guyana	40	15	0	20	0	0	0
Kuwait	55	0	0	20	0	10	10
Latvia	45	0	20	20	0	0	0
Libya	40	10	0	20	15	10	0
Australia	185	75	20	15	10	45	25
Cambodia	110	10	65	15	10	0	10
Jamaica	115	75	15	15	0	0	0
Jordan	65	0	0	15	10	15	20
Kazakhstan	65	0	0	15	0	40	0
Kosovo ^{Footnote 8}	45	0	0	15	20	10	0
Saudi Arabia	135	0	10	15	10	55	55
Tanzania ^{Footnote 12}	255	190	40	15	15	10	0
Uzbekistan	35	0	0	15	0	10	10
Argentina	95	15	20	10	35	10	10
Austria	65	55	0	10	0	0	0
Azerbaijan	55	0	0	10	10	10	20
Bahrain	25	0	0	10	0	0	10
Belgium	55	40	0	10	0	10	0
Bulgaria	50	0	0	10	25	10	0
Colombia	105	10	0	10	20	35	20
Czech Republic	135	80	45	10	0	0	0
Finland	35	25	0	10	0	0	0
France	125	50	15	10	20	15	15
Ghana	20	0	10	10	0	0	0
Greece	155	140	0	10	0	0	0
Hungary	110	60	0	10	15	10	0
Italy	200	170	15	10	0	0	10
Liberia	10	0	0	10	0	0	0
Lithuania	20	10	0	10	0	0	0
Malawi	15	0	10	10	0	0	0
Montenegro	10	0	0	10	0	0	0
Morocco	50	0	10	10	15	25	0
Nauru	10	0	0	10	0	0	0
Nicaragua	45	0	35	10	0	10	0
Switzerland	75	45	20	10	0	0	0
Togo	0	0	0	10	0	0	0
Tonga	25	10	15	10	0	0	0
West Bank and Gaza Strip (Palestine) ^{Footnote 16}	40	20	0	10	10	0	10
Zimbabwe	85	10	20	10	10	30	10
Åland Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	0	0	0	0	0	0	10
American Samoa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Angola	10	10	0	0	0	0	0
Anguilla	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Antigua and Barbuda	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Armenia	30	0	0	0	10	25	0
Aruba	10	10	0	0	0	0	0
Bahamas	10	10	0	0	0	0	0
Barbados	40	40	0	0	0	0	0
Belize	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Benin	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bermuda	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bhutan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bolivia ^{Footnote 3}	10	0	0	0	0	0	10
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Botswana	10	0	0	0	0	10	0
British Indian Ocean Territory	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Burkina Faso	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Burundi	15	0	0	0	0	10	0
Cabo Verde	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cameroon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cayman Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Central African Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chad	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
Congo, Democratic Republic of the	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Congo, Republic of the	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cook Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cuba	40	0	0	0	0	30	0
Curaçao	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cyprus	20	20	0	0	0	0	0
Côte d'Ivoire	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Denmark	145	130	0	0	0	10	10
Djibouti	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dominica	10	10	0	0	0	0	0
Dominican Republic	25	0	0	0	0	0	15
Ecuador	15	0	0	0	0	0	10
Equatorial Guinea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Eritrea	10	0	10	0	0	0	0
Estonia	15	10	0	0	0	0	0
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Faroe Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Georgia	15	10	10	0	0	0	0
Gibraltar	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Greenland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Grenada	10	15	0	0	0	0	0
Guadeloupe	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Guam	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Guernsey	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Guinea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Guinea-Bissau	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Haiti	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Holy See (Vatican City State)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Honduras	10	0	10	0	0	0	0
Iceland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ireland ^{Footnote 6}	160	85	25	0	10	10	35
Isle of Man	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jersey	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kiribati	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Korea, North ^{Footnote 19}	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kyrgyzstan	25	10	0	0	0	25	0
Laos ^{Footnote 22}	25	10	10	0	0	0	0
Lesotho	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Liechtenstein	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Luxembourg	10	0	0	0	10	0	0
Macedonia, Republic of ^{Footnote 9}	15	0	0	0	0	10	0
Madagascar	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Maldives	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mali	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malta	20	20	0	0	0	0	0
Marshall Islands	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Martinique	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mauritania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mauritius	105	35	20	0	10	20	10
Mayotte	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Micronesia, Federated States of	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Moldova ^{Footnote 5}	30	0	0	0	10	20	10
Monaco	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mongolia	35	0	0	0	0	15	25
Montserrat	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mozambique	10	10	0	0	0	0	0
Namibia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nepal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Netherlands	300	270	10	0	10	0	0
New Caledonia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
New Zealand	105	55	10	0	15	20	10
Niger	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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	20	15	0	0	0	0	0
Other places of birth ^{Footnote 23}	15	10	0	0	15	0	0
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	75	55	0	0	0	10	0
Pitcairn	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Portugal	170	145	0	0	10	0	15
Puerto Rico	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Qatar	10	0	0	0	0	0	15
Rwanda	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Réunion	10	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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Lucia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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	10	10	0	0	0	0	0
Samoa	15	10	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
Senegal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Seychelles	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sierra Leone	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	10	0	0	0	0	0	10
Slovakia	45	15	20	0	0	10	0
Slovenia	15	10	0	0	0	0	0
Solomon Islands	0	0	0	0	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	20	10	10	0	0	10	0
Sudan ^{Footnote 13}	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Suriname	10	0	10	0	0	0	0
Svalbard and Jan Mayen	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Swaziland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sweden	50	15	15	0	15	0	0
Syria ^{Footnote 15}	135	0	10	0	15	15	95
Tajikistan	10	0	10	0	0	0	0
Timor-Leste	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tokelau	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tunisia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turkmenistan	0	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	200	190	0	0	0	10	0
United States Minor Outlying Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Uruguay	25	15	10	0	0	0	0
Vanuatu	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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
Western Sahara	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yemen	45	0	0	0	10	0	20
Zambia	20	15	0	0	0	0	0

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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.