Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity Highlight Tables

Immigrant population by place of birth, period of immigration, 2016 counts, both sexes, age (total), Whitby, 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}	29,550	11,170	4,290	5,615	3,510	2,825	2,140
Afghanistan	640	0	100	210	170	125	30
Åland Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	25	0	0	20	0	0	0
Algeria	15	10	0	0	0	0	0
American Samoa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Angola	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Anguilla	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Antigua and Barbuda	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Argentina	65	15	20	15	20	0	0
Armenia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Aruba	0	10	0	0	0	0	0
Australia	75	30	10	15	0	0	20
Austria	60	50	10	0	0	0	0
Azerbaijan	10	0	0	10	0	0	0
Bahamas	25	10	0	0	0	10	0
Bahrain	15	0	0	0	0	0	10
Bangladesh	240	10	20	25	95	50	45
Barbados	180	100	30	25	0	0	10
Belarus	15	0	0	20	0	0	0
Belgium	35	25	10	10	0	0	0
Belize	10	0	10	0	0	0	0
Benin	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bermuda	25	15	0	10	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	100	0	0	90	0	10	0
Botswana	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Brazil	125	15	10	20	30	35	20
British Indian Ocean Territory	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Brunei Darussalam	10	0	10	0	0	0	0
Bulgaria	40	0	10	10	0	0	10
Burkina Faso	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Burma (Myanmar)	15	0	10	0	0	0	0
Burundi	55	0	10	35	10	10	0
Cabo Verde	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cambodia	30	10	15	0	0	0	0
Cameroon	45	0	0	10	10	15	10
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
Chile	55	25	25	10	0	0	0
China ^{Footnote 17}	1,230	40	100	305	315	245	235
Christmas Island	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Colombia	190	20	15	25	65	40	25
Comoros	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Congo, Democratic Republic of the	115	0	0	60	20	10	20
Congo, Republic of the	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cook Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Costa Rica	30	10	0	0	0	0	10
Croatia	135	110	15	0	0	0	0
Cuba	30	0	0	10	20	0	0
Curaçao	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cyprus	55	55	0	0	0	0	0
Czech Republic	140	80	35	10	10	0	10
Côte d'Ivoire	30	0	0	0	0	15	15
Denmark	25	25	0	0	0	0	0
Djibouti	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dominica	65	10	10	15	20	10	10
Dominican Republic	20	0	0	0	0	10	10
Ecuador	50	30	10	10	0	0	0
Egypt	160	35	0	60	15	10	40
El Salvador	75	0	50	30	0	0	0
Equatorial Guinea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Eritrea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Estonia	10	0	0	10	0	0	0
Ethiopia	40	10	0	15	10	0	0
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Faroe Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fiji	20	10	0	0	0	10	0
Finland	25	20	0	0	0	0	0
France	80	60	10	10	0	0	10
French Guiana	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
French Polynesia	10	0	10	0	0	0	0
Gabon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gambia	10	0	0	0	0	0	10
Georgia	10	0	10	0	0	0	0
Germany	500	410	30	35	10	20	10
Ghana	60	0	20	20	0	0	15
Gibraltar	0	10	0	0	0	0	0
Greece	355	310	20	15	0	10	0
Greenland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Grenada	110	25	30	25	15	20	0
Guadeloupe	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Guam	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Guatemala	55	10	25	15	0	0	10
Guernsey	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Guinea	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Guinea-Bissau	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Guyana	1,245	605	320	140	80	80	20
Haiti	70	10	0	0	10	35	10
Holy See (Vatican City State)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Honduras	10	0	0	0	0	10	0
Hong Kong ^{Footnote 18}	305	110	95	100	0	0	0
Hungary	165	60	50	20	25	10	0
Iceland	10	10	0	0	0	0	0
India	1,805	330	160	390	360	310	250
Indonesia	40	10	0	15	0	10	0
Iran ^{Footnote 14}	290	10	35	115	30	65	30
Iraq	70	10	0	0	25	10	15
Ireland ^{Footnote 6}	240	150	35	20	10	20	15
Isle of Man	10	10	0	10	0	0	0
Israel	30	15	0	10	0	0	0
Italy	960	905	25	35	0	0	10
Jamaica	2,380	985	520	405	125	170	160
Japan	45	0	0	10	0	10	20
Jersey	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jordan	100	30	0	35	10	20	0
Kazakhstan	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kenya	105	20	60	10	15	0	0
Kiribati	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Korea, North ^{Footnote 19}	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Korea, South ^{Footnote 20}	250	50	20	90	60	10	20
Kosovo ^{Footnote 8}	0	0	0	0	10	0	0
Kuwait	65	0	25	0	0	20	15
Kyrgyzstan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Laos ^{Footnote 22}	25	15	10	0	0	0	0
Latvia	10	0	0	0	0	10	0
Lebanon	220	20	65	65	15	30	20
Lesotho	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Liberia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Libya	35	10	10	15	0	0	0
Liechtenstein	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lithuania	0	10	0	0	0	0	0
Luxembourg	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Macao ^{Footnote 21}	10	0	0	10	0	0	0
Macedonia, Republic of ^{Footnote 9}	185	105	25	25	15	0	15
Madagascar	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malawi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malaysia	40	0	0	15	10	10	0
Maldives	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mali	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malta	125	90	0	10	20	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	60	15	25	10	10	10	0
Mayotte	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mexico	160	10	15	60	0	45	20
Micronesia, Federated States of	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Moldova ^{Footnote 5}	15	0	0	10	0	10	10
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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Morocco	55	0	0	35	15	0	0
Mozambique	15	10	0	0	0	0	0
Namibia	10	0	0	0	0	15	0
Nauru	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nepal	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Netherlands	495	435	0	10	15	20	20
New Caledonia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
New Zealand	20	10	0	0	0	0	10
Nicaragua	45	10	15	15	0	0	0
Niger	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nigeria	300	0	25	20	95	100	60
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	10	10	0	0	0	0	0
Oman	15	0	0	0	0	0	10
Other places of birth ^{Footnote 23}	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pakistan	1,365	65	25	445	440	250	140
Palau	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Panama	15	0	0	0	0	0	0
Papua New Guinea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Paraguay	15	10	0	0	0	0	0
Peru	105	20	30	30	0	10	15
Philippines	1,505	235	250	340	280	190	215
Pitcairn	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Poland	585	100	290	160	0	30	10
Portugal	365	265	75	20	0	0	10
Puerto Rico	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Qatar	20	0	0	0	0	0	20
Romania	365	15	35	100	170	30	25
Russian Federation	170	10	10	80	50	15	10
Rwanda	30	0	0	10	0	10	15
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	15	10	0	0	0	0	0
Saint Lucia	65	10	10	10	25	15	10
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	180	80	30	35	10	15	15
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	70	0	10	15	10	10	20
Senegal	0	0	0	0	0	0	10
Serbia ^{Footnote 10}	115	40	10	65	0	0	0
Seychelles	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sierra Leone	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Singapore	15	0	10	10	0	0	0
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Slovakia	70	35	10	10	15	0	0
Slovenia	90	75	10	0	0	0	0
Solomon Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Somalia	15	0	10	10	0	0	0
South Africa, Republic of	240	65	35	50	55	0	40
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
South Sudan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Spain	15	10	0	0	0	0	0
Sri Lanka	875	40	150	370	140	120	55
Sudan ^{Footnote 13}	20	0	0	10	0	0	0
Suriname	0	0	0	0	10	0	0
Svalbard and Jan Mayen	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Swaziland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sweden	35	20	0	10	0	0	0
Switzerland	30	15	10	0	10	0	0
Syria ^{Footnote 15}	25	10	10	10	0	0	0
Taiwan	60	25	10	15	0	0	10
Tajikistan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tanzania ^{Footnote 12}	140	65	45	20	10	10	0
Thailand	15	10	0	10	0	0	10
Timor-Leste	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Togo	0	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	995	395	235	265	75	25	0
Tunisia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turkey	50	25	10	15	0	10	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	30	20	0	0	0	0	0
Ukraine	150	20	20	60	25	10	20
United Arab Emirates	90	0	10	20	30	25	10
United Kingdom ^{Footnote 7}	4,490	3,305	635	275	100	125	50
United States ^{Footnote 2}	930	350	50	140	125	160	105
United States Minor Outlying Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Uruguay	40	10	0	0	10	0	0
Uzbekistan	0	0	0	10	0	0	0
Vanuatu	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Venezuela ^{Footnote 4}	130	30	15	35	35	0	15
Viet Nam	175	65	40	45	0	15	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
West Bank and Gaza Strip (Palestine) ^{Footnote 16}	50	15	0	20	10	10	10
Western Sahara	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yemen	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Zambia	45	10	30	0	0	0	0
Zimbabwe	80	0	0	0	15	40	20

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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.