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The tragedies and destruction from this period resulted in a large wave of Cambodian refugees, most of whom migrated to Canada, the U.S., France and Australia. In 1981, there were 13,000 Cambodian-Canadian Refugees, [2] with most of the population settling into major cities such as Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton and Quebec City.
Toronto's Cambodian population consists of 6,430 ethnic Cambodian people. [1] [2] In 1999, 98% of Cambodians in Toronto identified themselves as Khmer people.Cambodians first arrived to Canada as a result of the 1970s' Cambodian genocide, a four-year period in which nearly 2 million Cambodians were murdered.
Asian Canadians are Canadians who were either born in or can trace their ancestry to the continent of Asia.Canadians with Asian ancestry comprise both the largest and fastest-growing group in Canada, after European Canadians, forming approximately 20.2 percent of the Canadian population as of 2021, making up the majority of Canada’s visible minority population.
Since confederation in 1867 through to the contemporary era, decadal and demi-decadal census reports in Canada have compiled detailed immigration statistics. During this period, the highest annual immigration rate in Canada occurred in 1913, when 400,900 new immigrants accounted for 5.3 percent of the total population, [1] [2] while the greatest number of immigrants admitted to Canada in ...
The main driver of population growth is immigration, [8] [9] with 6.2% of the country's population being made up of temporary residents as of 2023, [10] or about 2.5 million people. [11] Between 2011 and May 2016, Canada's population grew by 1.7 million people, with immigrants accounting for two-thirds of the increase. [12]
According to Statistics Canada, Southeast Asian Canadians are considered visible minorities and can be further divided by ethnicity and/or nationality, such as Cambodian Canadian, Filipino Canadian, Indonesian Canadian, Laotian Canadian, Malaysian Canadian, Singaporean Canadian, Thai Canadian, or Vietnamese Canadian, as seen on demi-decadal ...
Most populous municipality: Toronto, Ontario, 2,794,356 [1] Highest percentage increase in population from 2016: Kapawe'no First Nation 229, Alberta, 1,840.0% [1] This geographic area underwent a boundary change since the 2016 Census that resulted in an adjustment to the 2016 population and/or dwelling counts for this area.
Canada is divided into 10 provinces and three territories.The majority of Canada's population is concentrated in the areas close to the Canada–US border.Its four largest provinces by area (Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, and Alberta) are also its most populous; together they account for 86.5 percent of the country's population.