Table 3. Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Years 2017 to 2019

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Region of Birth	2017	2018	2019
Total	1,127,167	1,096,611	1,031,765
Africa	118,824	115,736	111,194
Asia	424,743	397,187	364,761
Europe	84,335	80,024	87,597
North America	413,650	418,991	370,860
Oceania	5,071	4,653	5,359
South America	79,076	78,869	90,850
Unknown	1,468	1,151	1,144

Country of Birth	2017	2018	2019
Total	1,127,167	1,096,611	1,031,765
Afghanistan	19,538	12,935	10,136
Albania	5,722	5,049	5,366
Algeria	2,139	2,123	2,299
American Samoa	D	D	-
Angola	209	176	226
Anguilla	23	23	14
Antigua and Barbuda	322	325	323
Argentina	3,482	3,080	3,925
Armenia	3,437	3,217	3,101
Aruba	47	45	52
Australia	2,906	2,693	3,205
Austria	387	401	437
Azerbaijan	881	1,015	1,169
Bahamas	725	759	922
Bahrain	130	143	183
Bangladesh	14,693	15,717	15,176
Barbados	373	318	338
Belarus	1,919	1,951	2,263
Belgium	625	537	714
Belize	746	632	806
Benin	648	573	619
Bermuda	68	65	84
Bhutan	2,940	2,350	1,441
Bolivia	1,510	1,523	1,525
Bosnia and Herzegovina	846	682	637
Botswana	112	72	61
Brazil	14,989	15,394	19,825
Brunei	24	29	23
Bulgaria	2,184	1,798	1,759
Burkina Faso	541	525	646
Burma	12,897	8,182	5,024
Burundi	1,094	762	781
Cabo Verde	2,618	1,929	1,852
Cambodia	4,056	3,187	2,748
Cameroon	4,668	4,236	4,369
Canada	11,484	9,898	11,388
Cayman Islands	67	47	53
Central African Republic	178	304	231
Chad	205	251	224
Chile	1,625	1,519	1,762
China, People's Republic	71,565	65,214	62,248
Colombia	17,956	17,545	19,841
Comoros	D	8	10
Congo, Democratic Republic	8,709	9,941	8,999
Congo, Republic	632	580	476
Costa Rica	2,184	2,171	2,348
Cote d'Ivoire	1,810	1,375	1,589
Croatia	375	286	360
Cuba	65,028	76,486	41,641
Curacao	34	56	53
Cyprus	117	120	111
Czechia	582	534	714
Czechoslovakia (former)	52	51	-
Denmark	461	353	416
Djibouti	222	281	151
Dominica	510	492	511
Dominican Republic	58,520	57,413	49,911
Ecuador	10,594	11,472	11,083
Egypt	9,834	9,826	9,479
El Salvador	25,109	28,326	27,656
Equatorial Guinea	20	17	30
Eritrea	2,449	2,428	2,385
Estonia	176	151	193
Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)	19	18	32
Ethiopia	14,637	12,403	9,060
Fiji	805	730	734
Finland	439	442	497
France	4,782	4,276	4,787
French Polynesia	20	10	25
Gabon	150	112	148
Gambia	1,134	1,023	1,378
Georgia	1,629	1,643	1,691
Germany	4,662	4,443	4,848
Ghana	8,455	8,394	8,526
Greece	1,314	1,214	1,350
Grenada	544	501	554
Guatemala	13,198	15,638	13,453
Guinea	1,348	1,282	1,579
Guinea-Bissau	48	27	51
Guyana	5,468	5,165	5,385
Haiti	21,824	21,360	17,253
Honduras	11,387	13,794	15,901
Hong Kong	2,415	2,075	2,021
Hungary	972	917	1,070
Iceland	86	89	70
India	60,394	59,821	54,495
Indonesia	1,914	1,756	1,899
Iran	13,791	10,116	6,640
Iraq	14,203	14,351	6,514
Ireland	1,485	1,401	1,760
Israel	3,802	3,706	4,304
Italy	3,655	3,329	3,822
Jamaica	21,905	20,347	21,689
Japan	4,635	4,317	4,503
Jordan	5,264	5,322	4,998
Kazakhstan	1,377	1,378	1,533
Kenya	6,957	7,190	7,052
Korea, North	32	41	29
Korea, South	19,194	17,676	18,479
Kosovo	1,014	886	1,020
Kuwait	1,177	1,090	1,201
Kyrgyzstan	715	908	881
Laos	685	863	850
Latvia	359	356	319
Lebanon	2,818	2,581	2,605
Lesotho	24	12	22
Liberia	4,155	3,101	3,495
Libya	780	499	511
Lithuania	645	658	750
Luxembourg	33	30	42
Macau	109	91	99
Madagascar	60	79	75
Malawi	228	257	213
Malaysia	4,109	3,051	2,303
Maldives	5	D	8
Mali	544	488	586
Malta	75	58	47
Marshall Islands	23	23	22
Mauritania	287	212	230
Mauritius	96	67	95
Mexico	170,581	161,858	156,052
Micronesia, Federated States	6	19	21
Moldova	2,480	2,206	1,935
Monaco	14	13	7
Mongolia	661	636	765
Montenegro	323	299	376
Montserrat	12	20	24
Morocco	4,229	3,077	3,721
Mozambique	96	100	77
Namibia	130	75	98
Nepal	11,610	11,953	10,201
Netherlands	1,056	998	1,274
Netherlands Antilles (former)	9	7	21
New Zealand	798	719	844
Nicaragua	3,072	3,061	3,818
Niger	116	93	201
Nigeria	13,539	13,952	15,888
North Macedonia (formerly Macedonia)	1,027	1,082	1,079
Norway	290	284	329
Oman	104	110	148
Pakistan	17,408	15,802	13,921
Palau	13	7	14
Panama	889	897	1,059
Papua New Guinea	18	27	24
Paraguay	391	389	452
Peru	10,115	9,878	10,049
Philippines	49,147	47,258	45,920
Poland	4,845	4,357	4,700
Portugal	939	889	940
Qatar	224	236	287
Romania	2,953	2,448	2,616
Russia	8,918	8,621	9,822
Rwanda	1,394	1,620	1,509
Saint Kitts and Nevis	238	250	238
Saint Lucia	777	696	726
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	361	333	403
Samoa	194	179	195
Sao Tome and Principe	10	9	12
Saudi Arabia	2,135	2,100	2,514
Senegal	1,470	1,420	1,665
Serbia	1,410	1,217	1,532
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	144	132	139
Seychelles	10	6	6
Sierra Leone	2,058	1,527	1,443
Singapore	818	801	818
Sint Maarten	35	27	37
Slovakia	388	370	422
Slovenia	108	95	119
Somalia	7,404	7,557	3,752
South Africa	2,912	3,010	3,174
South Sudan	160	185	191
Soviet Union (former)	939	1,022	1,227
Spain	3,045	2,841	3,115
Sri Lanka	1,627	1,594	1,689
Sudan	3,515	3,658	2,949
Suriname	136	182	172
Sweden	950	889	1,018
Switzerland	565	570	595
Syria	5,877	14,686	5,967
Taiwan	4,858	5,079	5,801
Tajikistan	652	893	1,158
Tanzania	1,415	3,186	3,142
Thailand	6,311	5,556	5,551
Togo	1,572	1,534	1,546
Tonga	262	225	256
Trinidad and Tobago	3,100	2,758	3,150
Tunisia	535	517	510
Turkey	4,844	5,585	5,713
Turkmenistan	251	286	330
Turks and Caicos Islands	35	41	56
Uganda	1,898	2,412	2,560
Ukraine	10,135	11,879	11,762
United Arab Emirates	1,314	1,379	1,586
United Kingdom	10,948	9,908	11,337
United States	409	306	262
Uruguay	1,001	960	1,109
Uzbekistan	4,095	4,612	2,550
Venezuela	11,809	11,762	15,720
Vietnam	38,231	33,834	39,712
Virgin Islands, British	25	37	58
Yemen	6,029	1,885	3,717
Zambia	537	477	511
Zimbabwe	810	749	758
All other countries¹	43	40	40
Unknown	1,468	1,151	1,144

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