April 2017
Large Increase in Migration and in the Number of Non-Permanent Residents in Québec in 2016
The Institut de la statistique du Québec recently
published its 2016 provisional statistics on international and
interprovincial migration in Québec.
Net migration in the province stood at 34,632
individuals last year, a 25 per cent increase compared to 2015. This was
due to strong international migration (46,609 individuals). On the
other hand, interprovincial net migration remained in negative territory
(-11,977), as more Quebecers left the province to settle elsewhere in
Canada than the opposite.
The most notable result in these provisional data
is undoubtedly the fact that the number of non-permanent residents
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in Québec exploded to 10,976 in 2016, which is the highest it has been
in almost 30 years (1988). This is partly due to the large influx of
Syrian refugees. Click
here for more information on the data published by the ISQ (in French).
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