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Table 3. Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Years 2014 to 2023

By Region of Birth

Region of birth	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Total	1,016,520	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
Africa	98,410	101,420	113,430	118,820	115,740	111,190	76,650	66,210	89,570	105,520
Asia	430,510	419,300	462,300	424,740	397,190	364,760	272,600	295,310	414,950	418,930
Europe	83,270	85,800	93,570	84,340	80,020	87,600	68,990	61,520	75,610	80,280
North America	324,350	366,130	427,290	413,650	418,990	370,860	222,270	240,440	332,670	450,310
Oceania	5,110	5,400	5,590	5,070	4,650	5,360	4,000	4,150	5,130	5,000
South America	73,720	72,310	79,610	79,080	78,870	90,850	62,220	71,370	99,030	112,130
Unknown	1,150	680	1,720	1,470	1,150	1,140	630	1,010	1,390	730

By Country of Birth

Country of birth	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Total	1,016,520	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
Afghanistan	10,530	8,330	12,510	19,540	12,940	10,140	11,410	9,490	14,190	30,300
Albania	3,830	4,650	5,770	5,720	5,050	5,370	3,510	2,610	5,950	5,160
Algeria	1,670	1,780	2,180	2,140	2,120	2,300	1,580	1,900	3,130	5,150
Angola	150	150	200	210	180	230	180	210	450	570
Anguilla	20	20	20	20	20	10	10	10	20	20
Antigua and Barbuda	370	290	320	320	330	320	190	200	280	250
Argentina	3,870	3,730	4,090	3,480	3,080	3,930	2,970	3,250	4,130	5,050
Armenia	2,910	2,960	3,540	3,440	3,220	3,100	2,150	1,830	3,040	4,720
Aruba	40	40	20	50	50	50	20	30	50	40
Australia	2,810	3,030	3,240	2,910	2,690	3,210	2,520	2,680	2,860	2,790
Austria	440	470	430	390	400	440	310	360	340	380
Azerbaijan	670	680	780	880	1,020	1,170	810	550	1,130	1,370
Bahamas	650	730	660	730	760	920	610	1,000	770	870
Bahrain	120	150	140	130	140	180	130	150	160	200
Bangladesh	14,650	13,570	18,720	14,690	15,720	15,180	9,270	6,410	10,860	18,910
Barbados	380	380	370	370	320	340	230	270	310	300
Belarus	2,020	1,990	2,130	1,920	1,950	2,260	1,720	1,440	2,170	2,600
Belgium	630	660	690	630	540	710	630	600	550	670
Belize	790	770	850	750	630	810	480	670	590	700
Benin	520	470	580	650	570	620	450	470	720	710
Bermuda	110	110	100	70	70	80	70	70	70	80
Bhutan	7,300	6,330	4,220	2,940	2,350	1,440	1,090	140	210	210
Bolivia	1,720	1,630	1,600	1,510	1,520	1,530	980	1,120	1,620	1,580
Bosnia and Herzegovina	690	860	970	850	680	640	480	480	510	460
Botswana	60	60	80	110	70	60	40	60	60	50
Brazil	10,430	11,420	13,810	14,990	15,390	19,830	16,750	18,350	24,170	28,880
Brunei	30	20	30	20	30	20	10	20	20	30
Bulgaria	2,980	2,690	2,670	2,180	1,800	1,760	1,120	1,000	1,150	960
Burkina Faso	580	580	640	540	530	650	470	550	810	810
Burma	11,140	12,810	13,070	12,900	8,180	5,020	4,000	2,140	2,880	3,970
Burundi	270	350	420	1,090	760	780	1,100	730	790	840
Cabo Verde	1,150	1,250	2,240	2,620	1,930	1,850	1,000	940	1,120	1,860
Cambodia	2,540	1,870	3,170	4,060	3,190	2,750	1,590	1,760	3,400	2,470
Cameroon	3,940	4,370	4,900	4,670	4,240	4,370	2,840	3,580	5,880	6,010
Canada	11,590	12,670	12,790	11,480	9,900	11,390	9,530	9,980	11,320	11,870
Cayman Islands	50	50	60	70	50	50	50	60	40	50
Central African Republic	160	230	200	180	300	230	150	150	140	110
Chad	120	180	140	210	250	220	110	100	170	270
Chile	1,580	1,600	1,700	1,630	1,520	1,760	1,520	1,630	1,750	2,200
China, People's Republic	76,090	74,560	81,770	71,570	65,210	62,250	41,480	49,850	67,950	59,260
Colombia	18,180	17,320	18,610	17,960	17,550	19,840	11,990	15,290	21,720	24,810
Comoros	10	10	0	0	10	10	0	0	0	10
Congo, Democratic Republic	4,350	5,350	6,790	8,710	9,940	9,000	7,520	3,910	4,690	4,880
Congo, Republic	550	500	630	630	580	480	310	220	530	470
Costa Rica	1,970	2,030	2,220	2,180	2,170	2,350	1,660	1,990	2,170	2,490
Cote d'Ivoire	1,480	1,500	1,620	1,810	1,380	1,590	1,050	1,210	1,560	1,700
Croatia	300	350	390	380	290	360	240	290	260	250
Cuba	46,680	54,400	66,520	65,030	76,490	41,640	16,370	23,080	36,640	81,600
Curacao	30	20	40	30	60	50	30	30	40	40
Cyprus	130	110	130	120	120	110	110	100	90	110
Czechia	610	640	650	580	530	710	450	500	470	530
Czechoslovakia (former)	70	60	60	50	50	0	70	50	60	60
Denmark	510	610	520	460	350	420	410	320	370	430
Djibouti	190	370	280	220	280	150	80	110	150	160
Dominica	350	230	300	510	490	510	290	280	460	390
Dominican Republic	44,580	50,610	61,160	58,520	57,410	49,910	30,010	24,550	40,150	68,870
Ecuador	10,960	10,190	10,760	10,590	11,470	11,080	6,160	7,530	11,910	11,300
Egypt	11,480	12,090	12,050	9,830	9,830	9,480	6,160	4,400	8,350	10,190
El Salvador	19,270	19,490	23,450	25,110	28,330	27,660	17,910	18,670	30,880	26,210
Equatorial Guinea	20	30	20	20	20	30	30	30	50	60
Eritrea	2,000	2,220	2,270	2,450	2,430	2,390	1,880	1,300	1,760	1,520
Estonia	220	190	210	180	150	190	130	140	120	140
Eswatini	20	20	20	20	20	30	30	30	20	20
Ethiopia	12,300	11,390	13,230	14,640	12,400	9,060	6,280	3,710	5,720	6,510
Fiji	800	880	870	810	730	730	430	420	1,120	960
Finland	350	410	490	440	440	500	320	320	290	320
France	4,280	4,690	5,160	4,780	4,280	4,790	4,050	4,110	4,350	4,480
French Polynesia	20	10	30	20	10	30	20	10	50	20
Gabon	170	150	170	150	110	150	90	120	130	160
Gambia	1,110	1,140	1,250	1,130	1,020	1,380	660	780	1,010	1,080
Georgia	1,240	1,410	1,640	1,630	1,640	1,690	1,180	1,240	2,300	2,690
Germany	5,580	5,440	5,310	4,660	4,440	4,850	3,910	3,900	4,090	4,550
Ghana	7,120	6,190	6,950	8,460	8,390	8,530	4,630	3,940	5,450	6,910
Greece	1,240	1,210	1,450	1,310	1,210	1,350	950	840	920	1,020
Grenada	630	530	590	540	500	550	310	370	450	450
Guatemala	10,240	11,770	13,000	13,200	15,640	13,450	7,820	8,900	16,990	15,690
Guinea	1,380	1,390	1,500	1,350	1,280	1,580	860	750	1,370	1,540
Guinea-Bissau	30	40	40	50	30	50	30	20	40	50
Guyana	6,270	5,540	5,770	5,470	5,170	5,390	3,030	3,440	3,460	5,860
Haiti	15,270	16,970	23,580	21,820	21,360	17,250	9,340	11,460	10,430	15,450
Honduras	8,160	9,270	13,300	11,390	13,790	15,900	8,280	10,120	17,100	14,140
Hong Kong	2,280	2,090	2,510	2,420	2,080	2,020	1,780	1,330	2,300	2,290
Hungary	1,000	1,100	1,050	970	920	1,070	760	730	840	810
Iceland	90	100	100	90	90	70	80	80	70	60
India	77,910	64,120	64,690	60,390	59,820	54,500	46,360	93,450	127,010	78,070
Indonesia	2,140	2,080	2,130	1,910	1,760	1,900	1,430	1,590	1,750	1,930
Iran	11,620	13,110	13,300	13,790	10,120	6,640	8,810	5,730	9,410	11,450
Iraq	19,150	21,110	18,900	14,200	14,350	6,510	2,270	1,730	2,800	3,960
Ireland	1,610	1,610	1,760	1,490	1,400	1,760	1,470	1,360	1,370	1,340
Israel	3,810	3,970	4,140	3,800	3,710	4,300	3,690	3,100	3,440	3,650
Italy	3,300	3,540	4,080	3,660	3,330	3,820	3,180	3,070	3,480	3,470
Jamaica	19,030	17,640	23,350	21,910	20,350	21,690	12,830	13,360	16,480	21,460
Japan	5,550	5,400	5,210	4,640	4,320	4,500	3,910	3,960	4,180	4,060
Jordan	5,190	4,660	5,270	5,260	5,320	5,000	3,060	3,420	4,780	7,140
Kazakhstan	1,220	1,200	1,310	1,380	1,380	1,530	1,310	1,330	1,790	2,900
Kenya	5,880	5,600	6,270	6,960	7,190	7,050	4,030	3,090	5,010	5,080
Korea, North	140	60	50	30	40	30	30	20	20	20
Korea, South	20,420	17,140	21,800	19,190	17,680	18,480	16,240	12,350	16,170	15,770
Kosovo	760	810	1,020	1,010	890	1,020	680	560	850	1,040
Kuwait	1,060	1,060	1,190	1,180	1,090	1,200	770	920	1,120	1,170
Kyrgyzstan	710	790	850	720	910	880	590	710	1,640	2,680
Laos	810	920	860	690	860	850	490	350	620	730
Latvia	380	480	390	360	360	320	220	260	250	240
Lebanon	3,250	2,810	2,970	2,820	2,580	2,610	2,120	2,250	3,430	3,650
Lesotho	10	20	20	20	10	20	10	10	10	20
Liberia	3,870	3,800	3,620	4,160	3,100	3,500	1,670	2,500	2,410	2,590
Libya	520	730	640	780	500	510	510	410	710	920
Lithuania	750	750	740	650	660	750	480	490	510	530
Luxembourg	30	30	30	30	30	40	20	30	30	60
Macau	110	100	110	110	90	100	60	50	60	90
Madagascar	90	70	90	60	80	80	80	80	100	80
Malawi	170	160	210	230	260	210	200	170	180	200
Malaysia	2,620	2,750	3,380	4,110	3,050	2,300	1,900	1,610	1,570	1,700
Maldives	10	10	10	10	0	10	0	0	10	40
Mali	600	590	600	540	490	590	390	380	480	540
Malta	40	60	70	80	60	50	40	20	30	40
Marshall Islands	60	30	30	20	20	20	10	10	20	10
Mauritania	320	300	320	290	210	230	130	140	330	390
Mauritius	80	100	110	100	70	100	70	70	90	60
Mexico	134,050	158,620	174,530	170,580	161,860	156,050	100,330	107,230	138,770	180,530
Micronesia, Federated States	10	10	10	10	20	20	20	10	20	20
Moldova	2,340	2,500	2,930	2,480	2,210	1,940	1,370	1,050	1,500	1,540
Monaco	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Mongolia	650	640	750	660	640	770	540	760	1,010	810
Montenegro	290	250	390	320	300	380	300	270	320	340
Montserrat	40	10	10	10	20	20	10	10	10	10
Morocco	3,610	3,710	4,590	4,230	3,080	3,720	2,870	3,820	4,760	6,170
Mozambique	70	110	100	100	100	80	60	50	70	70
Namibia	40	90	90	130	80	100	90	80	50	100
Nauru	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	0	0	10
Nepal	12,360	12,930	12,850	11,610	11,950	10,200	7,850	7,310	12,010	11,930
Netherlands	1,200	1,310	1,320	1,060	1,000	1,270	960	1,010	970	1,210
Netherlands Antilles (former)	50	20	20	10	10	20	10	10	10	10
New Zealand	800	860	850	800	720	840	610	670	650	720
Nicaragua	2,890	3,320	3,490	3,070	3,060	3,820	2,570	4,220	3,750	3,870
Niger	70	60	120	120	90	200	140	180	200	200
Nigeria	12,830	11,540	14,380	13,540	13,950	15,890	12,400	13,100	12,390	15,790
North Macedonia	960	1,060	1,260	1,030	1,080	1,080	590	750	980	920
Norway	270	310	360	290	280	330	250	230	280	310
Oman	90	90	120	100	110	150	120	150	210	210
Pakistan	18,610	18,060	19,310	17,410	15,800	13,920	10,470	9,690	11,780	11,110
Palau	10	20	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Panama	1,100	1,050	1,030	890	900	1,060	600	840	950	1,010
Papua New Guinea	20	10	20	20	30	20	20	20	30	40
Paraguay	390	380	430	390	390	450	260	360	380	450
Peru	10,610	10,150	10,940	10,120	9,880	10,050	5,630	5,040	8,040	12,580
Philippines	50,000	56,480	53,290	49,150	47,260	45,920	25,490	27,510	36,000	49,200
Poland	5,690	5,280	5,600	4,850	4,360	4,700	3,340	2,970	3,190	3,170
Portugal	890	860	1,010	940	890	940	680	750	750	890
Qatar	200	230	270	220	240	290	220	320	430	660
Romania	3,250	3,380	3,550	2,950	2,450	2,620	1,990	1,850	1,830	1,860
Russia	9,080	8,800	9,300	8,920	8,620	9,820	7,970	5,530	8,910	11,570
Rwanda	560	730	1,360	1,390	1,620	1,510	1,080	780	1,540	1,850
Saint Kitts and Nevis	260	220	250	240	250	240	110	110	140	150
Saint Lucia	840	740	780	780	700	730	460	460	630	560
Saint Martin (French)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	20	10
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	450	420	420	360	330	400	200	230	320	260
Samoa	240	210	220	190	180	200	150	130	140	170
Sao Tome and Principe	10	10	10	10	10	10	0	0	20	10
Saudi Arabia	1,700	1,740	2,120	2,140	2,100	2,510	1,850	1,780	2,760	3,040
Senegal	1,270	1,240	1,530	1,470	1,420	1,670	1,000	960	1,250	1,400
Serbia	1,140	1,280	1,350	1,410	1,220	1,530	1,080	810	640	690
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	270	230	200	140	130	140	150	400	540	540
Seychelles	10	10	20	10	10	10	0	0	10	10
Sierra Leone	1,740	1,600	1,540	2,060	1,530	1,440	710	1,230	2,320	1,870
Singapore	780	780	810	820	800	820	810	800	970	880
Sint Maarten	50	50	40	40	30	40	20	20	40	50
Slovakia	460	420	480	390	370	420	340	310	320	330
Slovenia	80	110	120	110	100	120	80	90	90	100
Somalia	5,190	6,800	6,960	7,400	7,560	3,750	2,020	960	1,040	1,230
South Africa	2,680	2,910	3,020	2,910	3,010	3,170	2,730	2,720	3,540	3,850
South Sudan	70	130	120	160	190	190	120	70	100	100
Soviet Union (former)	1,140	1,020	1,040	940	1,020	1,230	1,070	1,080	1,240	1,440
Spain	2,930	3,300	3,520	3,050	2,840	3,120	2,620	2,640	2,870	3,350
Sri Lanka	1,770	1,760	1,910	1,630	1,590	1,690	1,460	1,230	2,570	2,270
Sudan	2,440	3,580	3,160	3,520	3,660	2,950	1,870	870	1,370	3,340
Suriname	160	130	160	140	180	170	120	120	110	140
Sweden	950	1,070	1,140	950	890	1,020	840	790	750	820
Switzerland	660	640	740	570	570	600	590	610	610	620
Syria	3,540	3,840	4,800	5,880	14,690	5,970	3,180	1,750	3,250	3,680
Taiwan	4,700	4,890	5,120	4,860	5,080	5,800	4,760	4,250	5,090	5,300
Tajikistan	520	600	590	650	890	1,160	520	540	950	2,090
Tanzania	770	800	790	1,420	3,190	3,140	2,310	1,440	1,640	1,820
Thailand	6,200	7,500	7,040	6,310	5,560	5,550	4,180	4,040	4,630	5,230
Togo	1,610	1,550	1,940	1,570	1,530	1,550	1,280	1,140	1,890	2,100
Tonga	320	330	280	260	230	260	200	170	210	250
Trinidad and Tobago	3,990	3,210	3,470	3,100	2,760	3,150	1,720	1,850	2,440	2,590
Tunisia	430	520	520	540	520	510	460	510	570	660
Turkey	3,830	4,200	4,470	4,840	5,590	5,710	4,360	4,470	7,000	7,330
Turkmenistan	250	230	240	250	290	330	250	160	940	720
Turks and Caicos Islands	40	40	40	40	40	60	30	50	50	50
Uganda	1,410	1,660	1,650	1,900	2,410	2,560	1,800	1,150	1,620	1,660
Ukraine	7,750	7,990	10,420	10,140	11,880	11,760	9,890	7,580	11,620	11,250
United Arab Emirates	1,040	1,190	1,370	1,310	1,380	1,590	1,250	1,330	1,960	1,840
United Kingdom	12,230	12,590	12,670	10,950	9,910	11,340	9,660	9,230	9,140	9,720
United States	360	370	470	410	310	260	190	260	290	220
Uruguay	1,130	1,080	970	1,000	960	1,110	700	830	730	870
Uzbekistan	5,190	3,980	4,360	4,100	4,610	2,550	1,350	990	4,980	5,550
Venezuela	8,430	9,140	10,770	11,810	11,760	15,720	12,140	14,410	21,030	18,440
Vietnam	30,280	30,830	41,450	38,230	33,830	39,710	30,000	16,310	24,430	36,000
Virgin Islands, British	60	40	40	30	40	60	30	40	50	40
Yemen	3,490	3,190	13,040	6,030	1,890	3,720	5,910	4,350	5,650	5,580
Zambia	440	460	490	540	480	510	400	360	370	480
Zimbabwe	800	780	820	810	750	760	670	740	1,430	1,310
All other countries ^[1]	50	50	50	40	40	40	30	30	50	50
Unknown	1,150	680	1,720	1,470	1,150	1,140	630	1,010	1,390	730

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