2007-12-4 19:02
oracle
One-fifth of Canadians immigrants
One-fifth of Canadians immigrants
五分之一的加拿大人是移民
Most immigrants are now from Asia and the Middle East
现在大部分移民来自亚洲和中东。
Twenty percent of people living in Canada are foreign-born, a proportion second in the world only to Australia, new census data has revealed.
最新的统计数据显示：20%的加拿大居民出生于境外，这一比例仅次于澳大利亚。
The 2006 census counted more than 6m foreign-born people out of Canada's population of 31.2m, the highest ratio of immigrants since the 1930s.
2006的普查书记显示：加拿大人口3，120万人口的超过600万来自国外。这一比例是自三十年代以来的最高的。
The immigrant population grew four times as fast as the Canadian-born population between 2001-2006.
2001-2006年之间，移民人口增长速度是在加拿大出生人口增长速度的四倍。
Nearly 60% of the newcomers came from Asia and the Middle East.
The new data illustrates that Canada is experiencing another great wave of immigration-led population growth.
Canada's statistics office, Statistics Canada, has previously reported that Canada experienced the highest population growth rate of the Group of Eight industrialised countries from 2001 to 2006.
The traditional Anglo-European face of Canada is changing
But unlike the great waves of migrants from Britain and Europe in the early- and mid-20th Century, this time non-Europeans are in the majority.
In 1971, Europeans accounted for 61.6% of immigrants, while in 2006 they accounted for 16.1% of recent immigrants - the second-largest group.
Combined with declining birth rates, the census data points to significant ethnic and cultural changes as Canada looks due to become reliant on immigration for population growth by around 2030.
People speaking neither French nor English as their native language now make up 20% of the total population, the highest recorded in the recent past.
Chinese languages are now the third most commonly spoken, followed by Italian, German, Punjabi, Spanish, Arabic, Tagalog and Portuguese.
中文成为第三大语言，其次是意大利语，德语，Punjabi，西班牙语，阿拉伯语，Tagalog （菲律宾语塔加洛语）和葡萄牙语。
The three largest cities of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver continue to attract the bulk of new immigrants, at nearly 70%.