Canada has largest share of population that was foreign born among G8 countries

• With over one in five people foreign born (20.6%), Canada had the largest share of foreign-born persons in 2011 of any G8 country and one of the largest of any Western country. In the United States, for example, the proportion of the population that was foreign born, was 12.9%.
• More than one-quarter (26.8%) of Australia’s population was foreign born, a higher proportion than for Canada.
• Among the G8 countries, Japan had the lowest proportion of its population that was foreign born, at 1.0%.

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