Table 3 
Period of immigration of immigrant speakers of selected non-official languages, Canada, 2021  

Period of immigration of immigrant speakers of selected non-official languages, Canada, 2021
  Immigration before 2001 Immigration from 2001 to 2010 Immigration from 2011 to 2015 Immigration from 2016 to 2021
  proportion of immigrant speakers (%)proportion of immigrant speakers (%)proportion of immigrant speakers (%)proportion of immigrant speakers (%)
Italian 87.4 5.5 3.1 4.0
Greek 87.1 4.3 4.1 4.5
Polish 84.9 8.3 3.2 3.6
Yue (Cantonese) 76.2 13.9 5.3 4.6
Vietnamese 73.1 11.6 6.1 9.2
Portuguese 69.1 10.6 6.6 13.7
German 68.5 17.5 7.0 7.0
Tamil 45.2 26.9 11.0 16.9
Hebrew 44.8 26.4 14.0 14.8
Spanish 43.1 28.1 14.5 14.3
Romanian 40.2 42.2 11.0 6.5
Punjabi (Panjabi) 36.9 28.0 15.2 19.9
Ukrainian 36.5 30.2 14.7 18.6
Korean 35.9 33.9 14.5 15.8
Gujarati 35.3 27.9 13.8 23.1
Mandarin 33.8 33.9 15.5 16.8
Russian 32.2 37.4 15.2 15.3
Iranian Persian 32.0 28.7 24.8 14.5
Urdu 30.5 36.6 16.7 16.2
Arabic 27.5 27.2 17.8 27.5
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 27.1 25.8 25.5 21.6
Bengali 26.9 34.7 16.6 21.8
Hindi 26.3 26.7 16.8 30.3
Source(s):
Census of Population (3901).
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