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Table 3. Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Years 2011 to 2020

By Region of Birth

Region of birth	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Total	1,062,040	1,031,631	990,553	1,016,518	1,051,031	1,183,505	1,127,167	1,096,611	1,031,765	707,362
Africa	100,374	107,241	98,304	98,413	101,415	113,426	118,824	115,736	111,194	76,649
Asia	451,593	429,599	400,548	430,508	419,297	462,299	424,743	397,187	364,761	272,597
Europe	83,850	81,671	86,556	83,266	85,803	93,567	84,335	80,024	87,597	68,994
North America	333,902	327,771	315,660	324,354	366,126	427,293	413,650	418,991	370,860	222,272
Oceania	4,980	4,742	5,277	5,112	5,404	5,588	5,071	4,653	5,359	3,998
South America	86,096	79,401	80,945	73,715	72,309	79,608	79,076	78,869	90,850	62,219
Unknown	1,245	1,206	3,263	1,150	677	1,724	1,468	1,151	1,144	633

By Country of Birth

Country of birth	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Total	1,062,040	1,031,631	990,553	1,016,518	1,051,031	1,183,505	1,127,167	1,096,611	1,031,765	707,362
Afghanistan	1,648	1,617	2,196	10,527	8,328	12,513	19,538	12,935	10,136	11,407
Albania	3,612	3,364	3,186	3,828	4,653	5,773	5,722	5,049	5,366	3,508
Algeria	1,364	1,369	1,241	1,669	1,775	2,180	2,139	2,123	2,299	1,581
Angola	148	187	143	148	154	198	209	176	226	181
Anguilla	25	23	22	20	22	20	23	23	14	11
Antigua and Barbuda	368	337	344	369	290	324	322	325	323	190
Argentina	4,473	4,359	4,372	3,874	3,730	4,091	3,482	3,080	3,925	2,970
Armenia	2,983	2,681	2,722	2,913	2,962	3,543	3,437	3,217	3,101	2,145
Aruba	39	54	45	40	38	23	47	45	52	22
Australia	2,343	2,414	2,759	2,809	3,034	3,239	2,906	2,693	3,205	2,523
Austria	424	407	415	438	474	432	387	401	437	311
Azerbaijan	728	663	637	672	676	784	881	1,015	1,169	814
Bahamas	668	619	630	654	725	656	725	759	922	614
Bahrain	119	104	115	122	145	138	130	143	183	127
Bangladesh	16,707	14,705	12,099	14,645	13,570	18,723	14,693	15,717	15,176	9,272
Barbados	455	460	428	384	376	371	373	318	338	226
Belarus	1,964	1,659	1,970	2,015	1,994	2,127	1,919	1,951	2,263	1,723
Belgium	567	574	675	632	662	691	625	537	714	629
Belize	905	847	946	789	772	851	746	632	806	475
Benin	462	415	342	517	466	577	648	573	619	450
Bermuda	71	85	88	106	112	99	68	65	84	67
Bhutan	10,137	10,198	8,954	7,298	6,325	4,217	2,940	2,350	1,441	1,091
Bolivia	2,173	1,948	2,071	1,719	1,626	1,595	1,510	1,523	1,525	976
Bosnia and Herzegovina	878	815	697	693	859	971	846	682	637	477
Botswana	76	80	53	58	61	78	112	72	61	43
Brazil	11,763	11,441	11,033	10,429	11,424	13,812	14,989	15,394	19,825	16,746
Brunei	25	19	21	25	21	31	24	29	23	11
Bulgaria	2,661	2,440	2,844	2,981	2,688	2,670	2,184	1,798	1,759	1,118
Burkina Faso	433	558	585	583	575	642	541	525	646	465
Burma	16,518	17,383	12,565	11,144	12,808	13,065	12,897	8,182	5,024	4,000
Burundi	593	535	260	273	351	415	1,094	762	781	1,099
Cabo Verde	1,808	1,684	1,673	1,154	1,253	2,242	2,618	1,929	1,852	995
Cambodia	2,745	2,473	2,624	2,536	1,868	3,173	4,056	3,187	2,748	1,593
Cameroon	4,754	3,815	3,908	3,943	4,374	4,899	4,668	4,236	4,369	2,842
Canada	12,800	12,932	13,181	11,586	12,673	12,793	11,484	9,898	11,388	9,526
Cayman Islands	41	44	44	48	53	55	67	47	53	50
Central African Republic	134	116	213	155	234	202	178	304	231	148
Chad	171	155	111	119	175	136	205	251	224	111
Chile	1,853	1,673	1,736	1,581	1,596	1,698	1,625	1,519	1,762	1,520
China, People's Republic	87,016	81,784	71,798	76,089	74,558	81,772	71,565	65,214	62,248	41,483
Colombia	22,635	20,931	21,131	18,175	17,316	18,610	17,956	17,545	19,841	11,989
Comoros	8	10	3	9	5	4	4	8	10	4
Congo, Democratic Republic	2,424	3,731	2,792	4,347	5,345	6,791	8,709	9,941	8,999	7,522
Congo, Republic	1,371	1,461	1,059	552	496	625	632	580	476	308
Costa Rica	2,135	2,020	2,114	1,966	2,029	2,224	2,184	2,171	2,348	1,658
Cote d'Ivoire	1,302	1,760	1,486	1,477	1,497	1,617	1,810	1,375	1,589	1,049
Croatia	349	336	353	297	348	388	375	286	360	241
Cuba	36,452	32,820	32,219	46,679	54,396	66,516	65,028	76,486	41,641	16,367
Curacao	-	-	-	27	22	35	34	56	53	31
Cyprus	101	107	126	129	113	131	117	120	111	105
Czechia	303	677	676	606	637	650	582	534	714	454
Czechoslovakia (former)	466	159	74	74	58	62	52	51	-	69
Denmark	459	459	506	514	609	521	461	353	416	405
Djibouti	56	106	90	190	370	281	222	281	151	84
Dominica	287	125	244	345	229	298	510	492	511	287
Dominican Republic	46,109	41,566	41,311	44,577	50,610	61,161	58,520	57,413	49,911	30,005
Ecuador	11,103	9,342	10,591	10,960	10,187	10,757	10,594	11,472	11,083	6,157
Egypt	7,778	8,988	10,294	11,477	12,085	12,045	9,834	9,826	9,479	6,164
El Salvador	18,667	16,256	18,260	19,273	19,487	23,449	25,109	28,326	27,656	17,907
Equatorial Guinea	13	20	18	15	25	18	20	17	30	27
Eritrea	2,102	2,643	2,138	2,002	2,220	2,267	2,449	2,428	2,385	1,881
Estonia	191	227	211	220	189	211	176	151	193	126
Eswatini	19	24	15	23	19	20	19	18	32	25
Ethiopia	13,793	14,544	13,097	12,300	11,394	13,232	14,637	12,403	9,060	6,280
Fiji	1,041	853	895	802	875	866	805	730	734	425
Finland	363	348	331	350	407	489	439	442	497	317
France	3,653	3,862	4,425	4,284	4,693	5,159	4,782	4,276	4,787	4,053
French Polynesia	21	30	-	24	14	27	20	10	25	15
Gabon	204	197	127	167	146	165	150	112	148	86
Gambia	972	1,159	1,018	1,111	1,142	1,247	1,134	1,023	1,378	664
Georgia	1,490	1,341	1,368	1,240	1,410	1,635	1,629	1,643	1,691	1,179
Germany	6,125	5,812	6,032	5,584	5,436	5,306	4,662	4,443	4,848	3,913
Ghana	8,798	10,592	10,265	7,115	6,186	6,949	8,455	8,394	8,526	4,627
Greece	949	1,054	1,361	1,235	1,211	1,451	1,314	1,214	1,350	945
Grenada	579	671	687	633	525	585	544	501	554	307
Guatemala	11,092	10,341	10,224	10,238	11,773	13,002	13,198	15,638	13,453	7,815
Guinea	1,555	1,656	1,518	1,375	1,389	1,501	1,348	1,282	1,579	858
Guinea-Bissau	29	47	43	30	39	37	48	27	51	27
Guyana	6,599	5,683	5,897	6,267	5,543	5,771	5,468	5,165	5,385	3,027
Haiti	22,111	22,818	20,351	15,274	16,967	23,584	21,824	21,360	17,253	9,338
Honduras	6,133	6,884	8,898	8,156	9,274	13,302	11,387	13,794	15,901	8,277
Hong Kong	2,306	2,104	2,226	2,278	2,085	2,510	2,415	2,075	2,021	1,783
Hungary	1,044	1,054	1,052	996	1,095	1,048	972	917	1,070	761
Iceland	90	103	139	86	104	97	86	89	70	81
India	69,013	66,434	68,458	77,908	64,116	64,687	60,394	59,821	54,495	46,363
Indonesia	2,856	2,603	2,731	2,139	2,084	2,129	1,914	1,756	1,899	1,428
Iran	14,822	12,916	12,863	11,615	13,114	13,298	13,791	10,116	6,640	8,805
Iraq	21,133	20,369	9,552	19,153	21,107	18,904	14,203	14,351	6,514	2,266
Ireland	1,371	1,514	1,626	1,605	1,607	1,759	1,485	1,401	1,760	1,466
Israel	3,826	4,153	3,996	3,805	3,965	4,142	3,802	3,706	4,304	3,687
Italy	2,443	2,673	2,960	3,298	3,544	4,078	3,655	3,329	3,822	3,184
Jamaica	19,662	20,705	19,400	19,026	17,642	23,350	21,905	20,347	21,689	12,826
Japan	6,161	6,061	5,925	5,545	5,395	5,207	4,635	4,317	4,503	3,905
Jordan	3,876	4,099	4,188	5,187	4,664	5,269	5,264	5,322	4,998	3,063
Kazakhstan	1,235	1,202	1,241	1,221	1,201	1,310	1,377	1,378	1,533	1,307
Kenya	7,762	7,043	6,123	5,884	5,602	6,274	6,957	7,190	7,052	4,026
Korea, North	36	49	48	142	55	47	32	41	29	28
Korea, South	22,824	20,846	23,166	20,423	17,138	21,801	19,194	17,676	18,479	16,244
Kosovo	670	782	839	758	814	1,020	1,014	886	1,020	678
Kuwait	973	1,044	937	1,057	1,055	1,186	1,177	1,090	1,201	768
Kyrgyzstan	542	648	652	707	790	847	715	908	881	594
Laos	956	949	923	806	917	856	685	863	850	486
Latvia	426	436	424	384	480	391	359	356	319	224
Lebanon	3,295	2,879	2,783	3,245	2,813	2,971	2,818	2,581	2,605	2,120
Lesotho	25	17	20	13	23	19	24	12	22	14
Liberia	4,151	4,109	3,334	3,874	3,795	3,619	4,155	3,101	3,495	1,674
Libya	357	315	376	524	734	642	780	499	511	514
Lithuania	936	924	854	747	750	735	645	658	750	475
Luxembourg	24	19	40	26	27	34	33	30	42	20
Macau	130	120	106	105	99	109	109	91	99	64
Madagascar	83	79	95	86	72	88	60	79	75	84
Malawi	123	192	159	172	160	205	228	257	213	197
Malaysia	2,273	2,605	2,477	2,622	2,749	3,382	4,109	3,051	2,303	1,898
Maldives	3	3	5	13	8	11	5	4	8	4
Mali	629	734	667	604	587	598	544	488	586	389
Malta	51	62	43	39	58	65	75	58	47	44
Marshall Islands	38	50	46	56	32	32	23	23	22	12
Mauritania	393	410	354	320	298	317	287	212	230	134
Mauritius	101	77	83	81	96	110	96	67	95	68
Mexico	143,446	146,406	135,028	134,052	158,619	174,534	170,581	161,858	156,052	100,325
Micronesia, Federated States	9	13	4	5	6	11	6	19	21	15
Moldova	2,258	2,021	2,485	2,341	2,496	2,929	2,480	2,206	1,935	1,367
Monaco	6	5	8	8	10	11	14	13	7	8
Mongolia	774	691	729	651	644	750	661	636	765	543
Montenegro	204	265	265	289	251	387	323	299	376	303
Montserrat	30	27	-	38	14	14	12	20	24	12
Morocco	4,399	3,656	3,336	3,605	3,710	4,586	4,229	3,077	3,721	2,866
Mozambique	60	94	73	71	107	101	96	100	77	60
Namibia	43	59	57	44	86	87	130	75	98	90
Nepal	10,166	11,312	13,046	12,357	12,926	12,851	11,610	11,953	10,201	7,847
Netherlands	1,085	1,091	1,142	1,195	1,309	1,319	1,056	998	1,274	962
Netherlands Antilles (former)	86	106	128	45	22	18	9	7	21	7
New Zealand	803	814	921	796	855	846	798	719	844	607
Nicaragua	3,401	3,046	3,048	2,886	3,324	3,486	3,072	3,061	3,818	2,570
Niger	96	48	37	71	55	119	116	93	201	139
Nigeria	11,824	13,575	13,840	12,828	11,542	14,380	13,539	13,952	15,888	12,398
North Macedonia	1,078	906	895	960	1,060	1,262	1,027	1,082	1,079	590
Norway	339	276	335	271	310	362	290	284	329	248
Oman	60	74	73	90	85	116	104	110	148	118
Pakistan	15,546	14,740	13,251	18,612	18,057	19,313	17,408	15,802	13,921	10,474
Palau	7	10	16	12	15	14	13	7	14	8
Panama	1,374	1,281	1,234	1,095	1,052	1,029	889	897	1,059	601
Papua New Guinea	20	21	27	18	11	23	18	27	24	19
Paraguay	500	467	448	391	382	434	391	389	452	256
Peru	14,064	12,609	12,564	10,606	10,148	10,940	10,115	9,878	10,049	5,626
Philippines	57,011	57,327	54,446	49,996	56,478	53,287	49,147	47,258	45,920	25,491
Poland	6,863	6,300	6,430	5,689	5,275	5,603	4,845	4,357	4,700	3,341
Portugal	821	811	918	892	857	1,006	939	889	940	679
Qatar	193	141	191	202	229	272	224	236	287	215
Romania	3,882	3,748	3,773	3,246	3,376	3,554	2,953	2,448	2,616	1,994
Russia	7,944	9,969	9,753	9,079	8,799	9,297	8,918	8,621	9,822	7,967
Rwanda	520	592	540	555	732	1,357	1,394	1,620	1,509	1,084
Saint Kitts and Nevis	350	311	259	263	222	250	238	250	238	106
Saint Lucia	785	919	853	844	739	777	777	696	726	463
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	468	503	529	448	415	422	361	333	403	196
Samoa	267	238	237	239	207	219	194	179	195	154
Sao Tome and Principe	9	12	6	5	6	12	10	9	12	4
Saudi Arabia	1,396	1,343	1,463	1,696	1,744	2,117	2,135	2,100	2,514	1,854
Senegal	1,424	1,615	1,340	1,273	1,244	1,533	1,470	1,420	1,665	999
Serbia	244	704	866	1,143	1,278	1,351	1,410	1,217	1,532	1,077
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	1,398	801	653	267	232	202	144	132	139	149
Seychelles	15	7	6	7	11	16	10	6	6	4
Sierra Leone	1,985	1,688	1,651	1,740	1,599	1,535	2,058	1,527	1,443	713
Singapore	690	712	835	779	781	812	818	801	818	807
Sint Maarten	-	-	-	45	45	42	35	27	37	21
Slovakia	594	528	507	460	424	483	388	370	422	343
Slovenia	69	86	62	78	107	119	108	95	119	76
Somalia	4,451	5,204	3,764	5,190	6,796	6,958	7,404	7,557	3,752	2,024
South Africa	2,649	2,781	2,629	2,676	2,907	3,023	2,912	3,010	3,174	2,733
South Sudan	-	17	59	74	127	124	160	185	191	117
Soviet Union (former)	3,687	1,296	1,264	1,136	1,022	1,042	939	1,022	1,227	1,070
Spain	1,890	1,842	2,480	2,928	3,303	3,519	3,045	2,841	3,115	2,620
Sri Lanka	2,053	1,994	1,847	1,767	1,763	1,913	1,627	1,594	1,689	1,463
Sudan	2,628	2,471	1,945	2,442	3,580	3,159	3,515	3,658	2,949	1,867
Suriname	196	187	178	158	134	156	136	182	172	117
Sweden	979	968	1,106	954	1,066	1,144	950	889	1,018	835
Switzerland	615	635	697	656	640	743	565	570	595	592
Syria	2,785	3,014	3,366	3,540	3,840	4,800	5,877	14,686	5,967	3,176
Taiwan	6,154	5,331	5,385	4,697	4,888	5,120	4,858	5,079	5,801	4,759
Tajikistan	382	411	550	516	595	593	652	893	1,158	523
Tanzania	1,427	1,516	837	774	799	788	1,415	3,186	3,142	2,312
Thailand	9,962	9,459	7,583	6,197	7,502	7,039	6,311	5,556	5,551	4,177
Togo	1,506	1,756	1,257	1,612	1,547	1,938	1,572	1,534	1,546	1,276
Tonga	408	276	348	320	327	283	262	225	256	202
Trinidad and Tobago	5,023	5,214	4,724	3,988	3,212	3,469	3,100	2,758	3,150	1,718
Tunisia	440	422	445	429	518	518	535	517	510	463
Turkey	4,403	4,162	4,144	3,834	4,201	4,469	4,844	5,585	5,713	4,359
Turkmenistan	260	223	210	254	226	235	251	286	330	250
Turks and Caicos Islands	33	30	50	40	38	39	35	41	56	33
Uganda	1,239	1,340	1,350	1,409	1,664	1,649	1,898	2,412	2,560	1,802
Ukraine	8,292	7,642	8,193	7,752	7,987	10,422	10,135	11,879	11,762	9,886
United Arab Emirates	707	854	910	1,039	1,193	1,370	1,314	1,379	1,586	1,251
United Kingdom	11,572	12,014	12,984	12,225	12,592	12,673	10,948	9,908	11,337	9,655
United States	269	279	319	358	370	468	409	306	262	187
Uruguay	1,553	1,374	1,352	1,128	1,078	972	1,001	960	1,109	699
Uzbekistan	5,056	4,726	4,382	5,194	3,977	4,359	4,095	4,612	2,550	1,347
Venezuela	9,183	9,387	9,572	8,427	9,144	10,772	11,809	11,762	15,720	12,136
Vietnam	34,157	28,304	27,101	30,283	30,832	41,451	38,231	33,834	39,712	29,995
Virgin Islands, British	37	39	45	56	38	40	25	37	58	29
Yemen	3,361	2,620	3,532	3,492	3,194	13,040	6,029	1,885	3,717	5,908
Zambia	652	643	505	441	460	487	537	477	511	401
Zimbabwe	1,016	914	924	797	779	815	810	749	758	674
All other countries ^[1]	36	34	40	48	48	48	44	41	40	35
Unknown	1,245	1,206	3,263	1,150	677	1,724	1,468	1,151	1,144	633

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