New immigrants contributed to over 60% of Canada’s population growth in 2018
Canada recorded its biggest influx of immigrants in 2018. A total of 71,131 immigrants arrived in the last three months of 2018, for a total increase of 321,065, according to the latest estimates released by Statistics Canada in Ottawa, on March 28th. At the beginning of the year, Canada’s population reached 37,314,442. Ottawa, the capital saw the population reach half a million people for the first time and this is in part due to the increase of foreign students. As of December 31, 2018, study permits were issued to 572,415 students, which denoted an increase of 16% of foreign students in 2018.
