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Table 3. Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Years 2015 to 2024

By Region of Birth

Region of birth	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Total	1,051,030	1,183,510	1,127,170	1,096,610	1,031,770	707,360	740,000	1,018,350	1,172,910	1,364,090
Africa	101,420	113,430	118,820	115,740	111,190	76,650	66,210	89,570	105,520	121,360
Asia	419,300	462,300	424,740	397,190	364,760	272,600	295,310	414,950	418,930	452,100
Europe	85,800	93,570	84,340	80,020	87,600	68,990	61,520	75,610	80,280	73,660
North America	366,130	427,290	413,650	418,990	370,860	222,270	240,440	332,670	450,310	588,780
Oceania	5,400	5,590	5,070	4,650	5,360	4,000	4,150	5,130	5,000	5,030
South America	72,310	79,610	79,080	78,870	90,850	62,220	71,370	99,030	112,130	120,730
Unknown	680	1,720	1,470	1,150	1,140	630	1,010	1,390	730	2,430

By Country of Birth

Country of birth	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Total	1,051,030	1,183,510	1,127,170	1,096,610	1,031,770	707,360	740,000	1,018,350	1,172,910	1,364,090
Afghanistan	8,330	12,510	19,540	12,940	10,140	11,410	9,490	14,190	30,300	50,310
Albania	4,650	5,770	5,720	5,050	5,370	3,510	2,610	5,950	5,160	5,080
Algeria	1,780	2,180	2,140	2,120	2,300	1,580	1,900	3,130	5,150	3,900
Angola	150	200	210	180	230	180	210	450	570	510
Anguilla	20	20	20	20	10	10	10	20	20	20
Antigua and Barbuda	290	320	320	330	320	190	200	280	250	270
Argentina	3,730	4,090	3,480	3,080	3,930	2,970	3,250	4,130	5,050	5,710
Armenia	2,960	3,540	3,440	3,220	3,100	2,150	1,830	3,040	4,720	4,540
Aruba	40	20	50	50	50	20	30	50	40	50
Australia	3,030	3,240	2,910	2,690	3,210	2,520	2,680	2,860	2,790	2,520
Austria	470	430	390	400	440	310	360	340	380	390
Azerbaijan	680	780	880	1,020	1,170	810	550	1,130	1,370	1,340
Bahamas	730	660	730	760	920	610	1,000	770	870	950
Bahrain	150	140	130	140	180	130	150	160	200	160
Bangladesh	13,570	18,720	14,690	15,720	15,180	9,270	6,410	10,860	18,910	16,600
Barbados	380	370	370	320	340	230	270	310	300	280
Belarus	1,990	2,130	1,920	1,950	2,260	1,720	1,440	2,170	2,600	2,420
Belgium	660	690	630	540	710	630	600	550	670	540
Belize	770	850	750	630	810	480	670	590	700	840
Benin	470	580	650	570	620	450	470	720	710	940
Bermuda	110	100	70	70	80	70	70	70	80	80
Bhutan	6,330	4,220	2,940	2,350	1,440	1,090	140	210	210	180
Bolivia	1,630	1,600	1,510	1,520	1,530	980	1,120	1,620	1,580	2,070
Bosnia and Herzegovina	860	970	850	680	640	480	480	510	460	470
Botswana	60	80	110	70	60	40	60	60	50	80
Brazil	11,420	13,810	14,990	15,390	19,830	16,750	18,350	24,170	28,880	28,490
Brunei	20	30	20	30	20	10	20	20	30	30
Bulgaria	2,690	2,670	2,180	1,800	1,760	1,120	1,000	1,150	960	970
Burkina Faso	580	640	540	530	650	470	550	810	810	720
Burma	12,810	13,070	12,900	8,180	5,020	4,000	2,140	2,880	3,970	3,440
Burundi	350	420	1,090	760	780	1,100	730	790	840	970
Cabo Verde	1,250	2,240	2,620	1,930	1,850	1,000	940	1,120	1,860	2,350
Cambodia	1,870	3,170	4,060	3,190	2,750	1,590	1,760	3,400	2,470	2,930
Cameroon	4,370	4,900	4,670	4,240	4,370	2,840	3,580	5,880	6,010	5,990
Canada	12,670	12,790	11,480	9,900	11,390	9,530	9,980	11,320	11,870	11,620
Cayman Islands	50	60	70	50	50	50	60	40	50	70
Central African Republic	230	200	180	300	230	150	150	140	110	140
Chad	180	140	210	250	220	110	100	170	270	230
Chile	1,600	1,700	1,630	1,520	1,760	1,520	1,630	1,750	2,200	2,540
China, People's Republic	74,560	81,770	71,570	65,210	62,250	41,480	49,850	67,950	59,260	71,470
Colombia	17,320	18,610	17,960	17,550	19,840	11,990	15,290	21,720	24,810	30,140
Comoros	10	0	0	10	10	0	0	0	10	10
Congo, Democratic Republic	5,350	6,790	8,710	9,940	9,000	7,520	3,910	4,690	4,880	5,040
Congo, Republic	500	630	630	580	480	310	220	530	470	440
Costa Rica	2,030	2,220	2,180	2,170	2,350	1,660	1,990	2,170	2,490	2,740
Cote d'Ivoire	1,500	1,620	1,810	1,380	1,590	1,050	1,210	1,560	1,700	1,360
Croatia	350	390	380	290	360	240	290	260	250	240
Cuba	54,400	66,520	65,030	76,490	41,640	16,370	23,080	36,640	81,600	184,040
Curacao	20	40	30	60	50	30	30	40	40	50
Cyprus	110	130	120	120	110	110	100	90	110	100
Czechia	640	650	580	530	710	450	500	470	530	520
Czechoslovakia (former)	60	60	50	50	0	70	50	60	60	40
Denmark	610	520	460	350	420	410	320	370	430	300
Djibouti	370	280	220	280	150	80	110	150	160	170
Dominica	230	300	510	490	510	290	280	460	390	400
Dominican Republic	50,610	61,160	58,520	57,410	49,910	30,010	24,550	40,150	68,870	69,630
Ecuador	10,190	10,760	10,590	11,470	11,080	6,160	7,530	11,910	11,300	13,800
Egypt	12,090	12,050	9,830	9,830	9,480	6,160	4,400	8,350	10,190	9,420
El Salvador	19,490	23,450	25,110	28,330	27,660	17,910	18,670	30,880	26,210	31,110
Equatorial Guinea	30	20	20	20	30	30	30	50	60	70
Eritrea	2,220	2,270	2,450	2,430	2,390	1,880	1,300	1,760	1,520	1,530
Estonia	190	210	180	150	190	130	140	120	140	130
Eswatini	20	20	20	20	30	30	30	20	20	40
Ethiopia	11,390	13,230	14,640	12,400	9,060	6,280	3,710	5,720	6,510	9,900
Fiji	880	870	810	730	730	430	420	1,120	960	1,170
Finland	410	490	440	440	500	320	320	290	320	340
France	4,690	5,160	4,780	4,280	4,790	4,050	4,110	4,350	4,480	3,660
French Polynesia	10	30	20	10	30	20	10	50	20	30
Gabon	150	170	150	110	150	90	120	130	160	180
Gambia	1,140	1,250	1,130	1,020	1,380	660	780	1,010	1,080	1,300
Georgia	1,410	1,640	1,630	1,640	1,690	1,180	1,240	2,300	2,690	2,470
Germany	5,440	5,310	4,660	4,440	4,850	3,910	3,900	4,090	4,550	4,130
Ghana	6,190	6,950	8,460	8,390	8,530	4,630	3,940	5,450	6,910	10,870
Greece	1,210	1,450	1,310	1,210	1,350	950	840	920	1,020	1,060
Grenada	530	590	540	500	550	310	370	450	450	430
Guatemala	11,770	13,000	13,200	15,640	13,450	7,820	8,900	16,990	15,690	17,300
Guinea	1,390	1,500	1,350	1,280	1,580	860	750	1,370	1,540	1,360
Guinea-Bissau	40	40	50	30	50	30	20	40	50	50
Guyana	5,540	5,770	5,470	5,170	5,390	3,030	3,440	3,460	5,860	4,610
Haiti	16,970	23,580	21,820	21,360	17,250	9,340	11,460	10,430	15,450	10,800
Honduras	9,270	13,300	11,390	13,790	15,900	8,280	10,120	17,100	14,140	17,250
Hong Kong	2,090	2,510	2,420	2,080	2,020	1,780	1,330	2,300	2,290	1,950
Hungary	1,100	1,050	970	920	1,070	760	730	840	810	850
Iceland	100	100	90	90	70	80	80	70	60	70
India	64,120	64,690	60,390	59,820	54,500	46,360	93,450	127,010	78,070	66,800
Indonesia	2,080	2,130	1,910	1,760	1,900	1,430	1,590	1,750	1,930	1,970
Iran	13,110	13,300	13,790	10,120	6,640	8,810	5,730	9,410	11,450	10,050
Iraq	21,110	18,900	14,200	14,350	6,510	2,270	1,730	2,800	3,960	4,040
Ireland	1,610	1,760	1,490	1,400	1,760	1,470	1,360	1,370	1,340	1,190
Israel	3,970	4,140	3,800	3,710	4,300	3,690	3,100	3,440	3,650	3,800
Italy	3,540	4,080	3,660	3,330	3,820	3,180	3,070	3,480	3,470	3,170
Jamaica	17,640	23,350	21,910	20,350	21,690	12,830	13,360	16,480	21,460	28,670
Japan	5,400	5,210	4,640	4,320	4,500	3,910	3,960	4,180	4,060	3,740
Jordan	4,660	5,270	5,260	5,320	5,000	3,060	3,420	4,780	7,140	6,420
Kazakhstan	1,200	1,310	1,380	1,380	1,530	1,310	1,330	1,790	2,900	2,490
Kenya	5,600	6,270	6,960	7,190	7,050	4,030	3,090	5,010	5,080	8,900
Kiribati	0	10	0	0	0	0	10	0	0	20
Korea, North	60	50	30	40	30	30	20	20	20	40
Korea, South	17,140	21,800	19,190	17,680	18,480	16,240	12,350	16,170	15,770	15,100
Kosovo	810	1,020	1,010	890	1,020	680	560	850	1,040	720
Kuwait	1,060	1,190	1,180	1,090	1,200	770	920	1,120	1,170	1,030
Kyrgyzstan	790	850	720	910	880	590	710	1,640	2,680	2,510
Laos	920	860	690	860	850	490	350	620	730	1,000
Latvia	480	390	360	360	320	220	260	250	240	240
Lebanon	2,810	2,970	2,820	2,580	2,610	2,120	2,250	3,430	3,650	4,740
Lesotho	20	20	20	10	20	10	10	10	20	10
Liberia	3,800	3,620	4,160	3,100	3,500	1,670	2,500	2,410	2,590	3,170
Libya	730	640	780	500	510	510	410	710	920	590
Lithuania	750	740	650	660	750	480	490	510	530	600
Luxembourg	30	30	30	30	40	20	30	30	60	40
Macau	100	110	110	90	100	60	50	60	90	80
Madagascar	70	90	60	80	80	80	80	100	80	80
Malawi	160	210	230	260	210	200	170	180	200	300
Malaysia	2,750	3,380	4,110	3,050	2,300	1,900	1,610	1,570	1,700	1,640
Maldives	10	10	10	0	10	0	0	10	40	20
Mali	590	600	540	490	590	390	380	480	540	520
Malta	60	70	80	60	50	40	20	30	40	40
Marshall Islands	30	30	20	20	20	10	10	20	10	10
Mauritania	300	320	290	210	230	130	140	330	390	250
Mauritius	100	110	100	70	100	70	70	90	60	80
Mexico	158,620	174,530	170,580	161,860	156,050	100,330	107,230	138,770	180,530	202,600
Micronesia, Federated States	10	10	10	20	20	20	10	20	20	10
Moldova	2,500	2,930	2,480	2,210	1,940	1,370	1,050	1,500	1,540	1,610
Monaco	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	0
Mongolia	640	750	660	640	770	540	760	1,010	810	1,030
Montenegro	250	390	320	300	380	300	270	320	340	440
Montserrat	10	10	10	20	20	10	10	10	10	10
Morocco	3,710	4,590	4,230	3,080	3,720	2,870	3,820	4,760	6,170	5,630
Mozambique	110	100	100	100	80	60	50	70	70	70
Namibia	90	90	130	80	100	90	80	50	100	100
Nauru	0	0	0	0	0	10	0	0	10	0
Nepal	12,930	12,850	11,610	11,950	10,200	7,850	7,310	12,010	11,930	12,850
Netherlands	1,310	1,320	1,060	1,000	1,270	960	1,010	970	1,210	1,000
Netherlands Antilles (former)	20	20	10	10	20	10	10	10	10	10
New Zealand	860	850	800	720	840	610	670	650	720	670
Nicaragua	3,320	3,490	3,070	3,060	3,820	2,570	4,220	3,750	3,870	4,180
Niger	60	120	120	90	200	140	180	200	200	250
Nigeria	11,540	14,380	13,540	13,950	15,890	12,400	13,100	12,390	15,790	19,610
North Macedonia	1,060	1,260	1,030	1,080	1,080	590	750	980	920	880
Norway	310	360	290	280	330	250	230	280	310	340
Oman	90	120	100	110	150	120	150	210	210	170
Pakistan	18,060	19,310	17,410	15,800	13,920	10,470	9,690	11,780	11,110	23,310
Palau	20	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Panama	1,050	1,030	890	900	1,060	600	840	950	1,010	1,130
Papua New Guinea	10	20	20	30	20	20	20	30	40	40
Paraguay	380	430	390	390	450	260	360	380	450	660
Peru	10,150	10,940	10,120	9,880	10,050	5,630	5,040	8,040	12,580	12,960
Philippines	56,480	53,290	49,150	47,260	45,920	25,490	27,510	36,000	49,200	48,820
Poland	5,280	5,600	4,850	4,360	4,700	3,340	2,970	3,190	3,170	3,610
Portugal	860	1,010	940	890	940	680	750	750	890	780
Qatar	230	270	220	240	290	220	320	430	660	570
Romania	3,380	3,550	2,950	2,450	2,620	1,990	1,850	1,830	1,860	1,890
Russia	8,800	9,300	8,920	8,620	9,820	7,970	5,530	8,910	11,570	10,720
Rwanda	730	1,360	1,390	1,620	1,510	1,080	780	1,540	1,850	1,500
Saint Kitts and Nevis	220	250	240	250	240	110	110	140	150	190
Saint Lucia	740	780	780	700	730	460	460	630	560	610
Saint Martin (French)	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	20	10	10
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	420	420	360	330	400	200	230	320	260	260
Samoa	210	220	190	180	200	150	130	140	170	230
Sao Tome and Principe	10	10	10	10	10	0	0	20	10	10
Saudi Arabia	1,740	2,120	2,140	2,100	2,510	1,850	1,780	2,760	3,040	2,700
Senegal	1,240	1,530	1,470	1,420	1,670	1,000	960	1,250	1,400	1,700
Serbia	1,280	1,350	1,410	1,220	1,530	1,080	810	640	690	830
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	230	200	140	130	140	150	400	540	540	460
Seychelles	10	20	10	10	10	0	0	10	10	10
Sierra Leone	1,600	1,540	2,060	1,530	1,440	710	1,230	2,320	1,870	1,680
Singapore	780	810	820	800	820	810	800	970	880	770
Sint Maarten	50	40	40	30	40	20	20	40	50	40
Slovakia	420	480	390	370	420	340	310	320	330	350
Slovenia	110	120	110	100	120	80	90	90	100	70
Somalia	6,800	6,960	7,400	7,560	3,750	2,020	960	1,040	1,230	2,030
South Africa	2,910	3,020	2,910	3,010	3,170	2,730	2,720	3,540	3,850	3,880
South Sudan	130	120	160	190	190	120	70	100	100	170
Soviet Union (former)	1,020	1,040	940	1,020	1,230	1,070	1,080	1,240	1,440	1,320
Spain	3,300	3,520	3,050	2,840	3,120	2,620	2,640	2,870	3,350	2,820
Sri Lanka	1,760	1,910	1,630	1,590	1,690	1,460	1,230	2,570	2,270	2,290
Sudan	3,580	3,160	3,520	3,660	2,950	1,870	870	1,370	3,340	3,880
Suriname	130	160	140	180	170	120	120	110	140	160
Sweden	1,070	1,140	950	890	1,020	840	790	750	820	770
Switzerland	640	740	570	570	600	590	610	610	620	500
Syria	3,840	4,800	5,880	14,690	5,970	3,180	1,750	3,250	3,680	5,590
Taiwan	4,890	5,120	4,860	5,080	5,800	4,760	4,250	5,090	5,300	5,020
Tajikistan	600	590	650	890	1,160	520	540	950	2,090	2,140
Tanzania	800	790	1,420	3,190	3,140	2,310	1,440	1,640	1,820	1,850
Thailand	7,500	7,040	6,310	5,560	5,550	4,180	4,040	4,630	5,230	5,390
Togo	1,550	1,940	1,570	1,530	1,550	1,280	1,140	1,890	2,100	2,330
Tonga	330	280	260	230	260	200	170	210	250	310
Trinidad and Tobago	3,210	3,470	3,100	2,760	3,150	1,720	1,850	2,440	2,590	2,830
Tunisia	520	520	540	520	510	460	510	570	660	710
Turkey	4,200	4,470	4,840	5,590	5,710	4,360	4,470	7,000	7,330	8,030
Turkmenistan	230	240	250	290	330	250	160	940	720	670
Turks and Caicos Islands	40	40	40	40	60	30	50	50	50	50
Uganda	1,660	1,650	1,900	2,410	2,560	1,800	1,150	1,620	1,660	2,090
Ukraine	7,990	10,420	10,140	11,880	11,760	9,890	7,580	11,620	11,250	9,030
United Arab Emirates	1,190	1,370	1,310	1,380	1,590	1,250	1,330	1,960	1,840	1,590
United Kingdom	12,590	12,670	10,950	9,910	11,340	9,660	9,230	9,140	9,720	9,020
United States	370	470	410	310	260	190	260	290	220	220
Uruguay	1,080	970	1,000	960	1,110	700	830	730	870	1,090
Uzbekistan	3,980	4,360	4,100	4,610	2,550	1,350	990	4,980	5,550	5,070
Venezuela	9,140	10,770	11,810	11,760	15,720	12,140	14,410	21,030	18,440	18,490
Vietnam	30,830	41,450	38,230	33,830	39,710	30,000	16,310	24,430	36,000	39,080
Virgin Islands, British	40	40	30	40	60	30	40	50	40	50
Yemen	3,190	13,040	6,030	1,890	3,720	5,910	4,350	5,650	5,580	6,050
Zambia	460	490	540	480	510	400	360	370	480	610
Zimbabwe	780	820	810	750	760	670	740	1,430	1,310	1,810
All other countries^[1]	40	40	40	40	40	30	20	50	40	50
Unknown	680	1,720	1,470	1,150	1,140	630	1,010	1,390	730	2,430

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