New citizens celebrate Canada at Georgetown ceremony
07.03.2018
The latest immigration data (December 2022) has been released by IRCC and the complete 2022 data updates can be found on our immigration dashboard. Data are released by IRCC on a two-month lag. The visualizations below are based on a 2018 baseline.
The number of new citizens in December 2022 was down by 37% (-13,172) compared to November 2022.
Permanent resident admissions in December 2022 were down by 10.20% (-2,585) compared to November 2022.
Key Insights – Source Countries
Source Countries (December 2022)
- India represented the largest source country of new citizens (3,886) and permanent residents:(4,555).
- China did not make the list of top 5 source countries for new citizens (735), but was the third largest source country for new permanent residents (1,595).
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