Table 3. Persons Obtaining Lawful Permanent Resident Status by Region and Country of Birth: Fiscal Years 2014 to 2016

Region of Birth	2014	2015	2016
Total	1,016,518	1,051,031	1,183,505
Africa	98,413	101,415	113,426
Asia	430,508	419,297	462,299
Europe	83,266	85,803	93,567
North America	324,354	366,126	427,293
Oceania	5,112	5,404	5,588
South America	73,715	72,309	79,608
Unknown	1,150	677	1,724

Country of Birth	2014	2015	2016
Total	1,016,518	1,051,031	1,183,505
Afghanistan	10,527	8,328	12,513
Albania	3,828	4,653	5,773
Algeria	1,669	1,775	2,180
American Samoa	-	-	-
Angola	148	154	198
Anguilla	20	22	20
Antigua and Barbuda	369	290	324
Argentina	3,874	3,730	4,091
Armenia	2,913	2,962	3,543
Aruba	40	38	23
Australia	2,809	3,034	3,239
Austria	438	474	432
Azerbaijan	672	676	784
Bahamas	654	725	656
Bahrain	122	145	138
Bangladesh	14,645	13,570	18,723
Barbados	384	376	371
Belarus	2,015	1,994	2,127
Belgium	632	662	691
Belize	789	772	851
Benin	517	466	577
Bermuda	106	112	99
Bhutan	7,298	6,325	4,217
Bolivia	1,719	1,626	1,595
Bosnia and Herzegovina	693	859	971
Botswana	58	61	78
Brazil	10,429	11,424	13,812
Brunei	25	21	31
Bulgaria	2,981	2,688	2,670
Burkina Faso	583	575	642
Burma	11,144	12,808	13,065
Burundi	273	351	415
Cabo Verde	1,154	1,253	2,242
Cambodia	2,536	1,868	3,173
Cameroon	3,943	4,374	4,899
Canada	11,586	12,673	12,793
Cayman Islands	48	53	55
Central African Republic	155	234	202
Chad	119	175	136
Chile	1,581	1,596	1,698
China, People's Republic	76,089	74,558	81,772
Colombia	18,175	17,316	18,610
Comoros	9	5	4
Congo, Democratic Republic	4,347	5,345	6,791
Congo, Republic	552	496	625
Costa Rica	1,966	2,029	2,224
Cote d'Ivoire	1,477	1,497	1,617
Croatia	297	348	388
Cuba	46,679	54,396	66,516
Curacao	27	22	35
Cyprus	129	113	131
Czechia	606	637	650
Czechoslovakia (former)	74	58	62
Denmark	514	609	521
Djibouti	190	370	281
Dominica	345	229	298
Dominican Republic	44,577	50,610	61,161
Ecuador	10,960	10,187	10,757
Egypt	11,477	12,085	12,045
El Salvador	19,273	19,487	23,449
Equatorial Guinea	15	25	18
Eritrea	2,002	2,220	2,267
Estonia	220	189	211
Ethiopia	12,300	11,394	13,232
Fiji	802	875	866
Finland	350	407	489
France	4,284	4,693	5,159
French Polynesia	24	14	27
Gabon	167	146	165
Gambia	1,111	1,142	1,247
Georgia	1,240	1,410	1,635
Germany	5,584	5,436	5,306
Ghana	7,115	6,186	6,949
Greece	1,235	1,211	1,451
Grenada	633	525	585
Guatemala	10,238	11,773	13,002
Guinea	1,375	1,389	1,501
Guinea-Bissau	30	39	37
Guyana	6,267	5,543	5,771
Haiti	15,274	16,967	23,584
Honduras	8,156	9,274	13,302
Hong Kong	2,278	2,085	2,510
Hungary	996	1,095	1,048
Iceland	86	104	97
India	77,908	64,116	64,687
Indonesia	2,139	2,084	2,129
Iran	11,615	13,114	13,298
Iraq	19,153	21,107	18,904
Ireland	1,605	1,607	1,759
Israel	3,805	3,965	4,142
Italy	3,298	3,544	4,078
Jamaica	19,026	17,642	23,350
Japan	5,545	5,395	5,207
Jordan	5,187	4,664	5,269
Kazakhstan	1,221	1,201	1,310
Kenya	5,884	5,602	6,274
Kiribati	6	D	9
Korea, North	142	55	47
Korea, South ¹	20,423	17,138	21,801
Kosovo	758	814	1,020
Kuwait	1,057	1,055	1,186
Kyrgyzstan	707	790	847
Laos	806	917	856
Latvia	384	480	391
Lebanon	3,245	2,813	2,971
Lesotho	13	23	19
Liberia	3,874	3,795	3,619
Libya	524	734	642
Lithuania	747	750	735
Luxembourg	26	27	34
Macau	105	99	109
Macedonia	960	1,060	1,262
Madagascar	86	72	88
Malawi	172	160	205
Malaysia	2,622	2,749	3,382
Maldives	13	8	11
Mali	604	587	598
Malta	39	58	65
Marshall Islands	56	32	32
Mauritania	320	298	317
Mauritius	81	96	110
Mexico	134,052	158,619	174,534
Micronesia, Federated States	5	6	11
Moldova	2,341	2,496	2,929
Monaco	8	10	11
Mongolia	651	644	750
Montenegro	289	251	387
Montserrat	38	14	14
Morocco	3,605	3,710	4,586
Mozambique	71	107	101
Namibia	44	86	87
Nepal	12,357	12,926	12,851
Netherlands	1,195	1,309	1,319
Netherlands Antilles (former)	45	22	18
New Caledonia	6	9	5
New Zealand	796	855	846
Nicaragua	2,886	3,324	3,486
Niger	71	55	119
Nigeria	12,828	11,542	14,380
Norway	271	310	362
Oman	90	85	116
Pakistan	18,612	18,057	19,313
Palau	12	15	14
Panama	1,095	1,052	1,029
Papua New Guinea	18	11	23
Paraguay	391	382	434
Peru	10,606	10,148	10,940
Philippines	49,996	56,478	53,287
Poland	5,689	5,275	5,603
Portugal	892	857	1,006
Qatar	202	229	272
Romania	3,246	3,376	3,554
Russia	9,079	8,799	9,297
Rwanda	555	732	1,357
Saint Kitts and Nevis	263	222	250
Saint Lucia	844	739	777
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	448	415	422
Samoa	239	207	219
Sao Tome and Principe	5	6	12
Saudi Arabia	1,696	1,744	2,117
Senegal	1,273	1,244	1,533
Serbia	1,143	1,278	1,351
Serbia and Montenegro (former)	267	232	202
Seychelles	7	11	16
Sierra Leone	1,740	1,599	1,535
Singapore	779	781	812
Sint Maarten	45	45	42
Slovakia	460	424	483
Slovenia	78	107	119
Solomon Islands	5	D	3
Somalia	5,190	6,796	6,958
South Africa	2,676	2,907	3,023
South Sudan	74	127	124
Soviet Union (former)	1,136	1,022	1,042
Spain	2,928	3,303	3,519
Sri Lanka	1,767	1,763	1,913
Sudan	2,442	3,580	3,159
Suriname	158	134	156
Swaziland	23	19	20
Sweden	954	1,066	1,144
Switzerland	656	640	743
Syria	3,540	3,840	4,800
Taiwan	4,697	4,888	5,120
Tajikistan	516	595	593
Tanzania	774	799	788
Thailand	6,197	7,502	7,039
Togo	1,612	1,547	1,938
Tonga	320	327	283
Trinidad and Tobago	3,988	3,212	3,469
Tunisia	429	518	518
Turkey	3,834	4,201	4,469
Turkmenistan	254	226	235
Turks and Caicos Islands	40	38	39
Uganda	1,409	1,664	1,649
Ukraine	7,752	7,987	10,422
United Arab Emirates	1,039	1,193	1,370
United Kingdom	12,225	12,592	12,673
United States	358	370	468
Uruguay	1,128	1,078	972
Uzbekistan	5,194	3,977	4,359
Venezuela	8,427	9,144	10,772
Vietnam	30,283	30,832	41,451
Virgin Islands, British	56	38	40
Yemen	3,492	3,194	13,040
Zambia	441	460	487
Zimbabwe	797	779	815
All other countries ²	31	34	31
Unknown	1,150	677	1,724

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