India 2nd-largest source nation

60% IMMIGRANTS WERE ADMITTED TO CANADA AS ECONOMIC MIGRANTS BETWEEN 2011 AND

2016. THOSE JOINING

KIN NUMBERED 27%, WHILE REFUGEES ACCOUNTED FOR 12%.

TORONTO: Almost an eighth of immigrants who permanently settled in Canada in the five-year period between 2011 and 2016 were from India, according to the latest results from the 2016 census released by Statistics Canada.

In its table for the top 10 countries of birth of recent immigrants in 2016, those from India - at 147,190 - account for 12.1% of total number of 1,212,075.

India was the second-largest largest source nation, trailing only the Philippines. China completes the list of the top three.

These results “provide a new national statistical portrait of immigration and ethnocultural diversity in Canada”, according to Statistics Canada.

According to the document, the largest contingent of visible minorities in Canada is from South Asia, with 1,924,635 people representing more than 25% of that particular population. While this data is not further broken down by country of origin, it appears to indicate that the Indian-origin population in Canada may be nearing 1.5 million, as this segment is estimated to comprise three-fourth of immigrants from the subcontinent.

“Changes in the main source countries of immigrants have transformed the overall portrait of Canada's foreign-born population. In 2016, almost half (48.1%) of the foreign-born population was born in Asia,” the statement said. BORN : ELECTED PRESIDENT :

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