According to Statistics Canada's latest data, Canada is home to 6.8 million foreign-born residents.
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Canada’s foreign-born population soars

Canada has more foreign-born people than ever before, at a proportion not seen in almost a century, according to the latestgovernment survey.  Figures show they are young, most often Asian and they mainly live in the suburbs. Africans too are arriving in growing numbers.

Canada was home to about 6,775,800 immigrants in 2011. They made up 20.6 per cent of the population, that being the highest proportion of any country in the G8. More than 200 different ethnic origins were reported.

Nearly 6.26 million people identified themselves as a visible minority, representing 19.1 per cent of the population.

South Asians, Chinese and blacks accounted for 61.3 per cent of the visible minority population, followed by Filipinos, Latin Americans, Arabs, Southeast Asians, West Asians, Koreans and Japanese.

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