Immigrants | How Quebec compares to the rest of the world

At 50,000 permanent immigrants per year, Quebec welcomes far fewer than Canada. Except that Canada is also one of the countries that welcome the most. How does Quebec compare to the rest of the world?

The immigrant population around the world

In 2021, out of 19 comparable states, Quebec is 11^e rank of the states with the most immigrants within its population.

The net migration rate

Out of 20 comparable states, Quebec ranks 6^e rank for the net migration rate (immigrants minus emigrants) for the year 2019, counting temporary immigrants (see note 2 below). Even without temporary immigration, he would take the 9^e rank with a rate of 4.7 net permanent immigrants per 1000 people.

Note: The comparison with Quebec is not perfect, because the 19 other states have the UN methodology and Quebec, that of Statistics Canada. These two methodologies differ slightly. For example, Canada has a net migration rate of 11.5 immigrants per 1000 people of population with Statistics Canada, and a rate of 10.5 with the method used by the UN.