The immigrant population is increasing and concentrating to urban areas

Abstrakti

In Australia and Canada immigrants represent a particularly high proportion of the resident population: almost 24 % in 1999 for Australia, and over 17 % in 1996 for Canada. The proportion in the United States was over 10 % in 1999. Between 1994 and 1999 the immigrant population there rose by nearly 6 million. In Canada, the period between the last two censuses (198696), the immigrant population rose by a million, while in Australia between 1994 and 1999 immigration increased the population by 400 000.