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Nigerians began migrating to Canada during the 1967–1970 Nigerian Civil War. [2] Nigerians were not broken out separately in immigration statistics until 1973. 3,919 landed immigrants of Nigerian nationality arrived in Canada from 1973 to 1991. [3] There is a significant number of Nigerians living in the Greater Toronto Area. [4]
Igbo Canadians are citizens of Canada that are of full or partial Igbo descent. The Igbo are an ethnic group from Nigeria. According to the 2016 Canadian census, the number of people who identified as Igbo was 18,315. [1] Some Igbo people may have identified as Nigerian.
They represent the second largest ethnic community of Nigerians in Canada. According to the 2016 Canadian census by Statistics Canada , 16,210 respondents spoke Yoruba at home ranking it as one of the most spoken Niger-Congo language in the country.
This was the second largest number of recent immigrants to the nation after Europe, and a four-fold increase from the number of African-born immigrants in 1971 (3.2%). As of 2016, the top five countries of birth of recent African-born immigrants to Canada were Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Cameroon. [1]
Since confederation in 1867 through to the contemporary era, decadal and demi-decadal census reports in Canada have compiled detailed immigration statistics. During this period, the highest annual immigration rate in Canada occurred in 1913, when 400,900 new immigrants accounted for 5.3 percent of the total population, [1] [2] while the greatest number of immigrants admitted to Canada in ...
Nigerian emigrants to Canada (46 P) I. Canadian people of Igbo descent (4 P) Y. Canadian people of Yoruba descent (5 P) Pages in category "Canadian people of Nigerian ...
The number of Nigerian immigrants residing in the United States is rapidly growing, expanding from a small 1980 population of 25,000. [3] The 2022 American Community Survey (ACS) estimated that 712,294 residents of the US were of Nigerian ancestry. [ 6 ]
Asian Canadians are Canadians who were either born in or can trace their ancestry to the continent of Asia.Canadians with Asian ancestry comprise both the largest and fastest-growing group in Canada, after European Canadians, forming approximately 20.2 percent of the Canadian population as of 2021, making up the majority of Canada’s visible minority population.