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Foreign-Born Mothers Accounted for 42% of Canadian Births in 2024

Statistics Canada says immigration-driven births are offsetting falling fertility among Canadian-born women, preventing natural increase from turning negative since 2022.

Statistics Canada building at Tunney’s Pasture in Ottawa.
A new Statistics Canada study looked at births across Canada between 1997 and 2024 and found two-in-five newborns, or 42 per cent, had a mother born outside Canada, a proportion that nearly doubled over 25 years.
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Overview

  • Statistics Canada counted 154,687 births to foreign-born mothers last year, roughly double the number recorded in 1997.
  • Births to foreign-born mothers rose nearly 12% in 2024 after increases in 2022 and 2023, while births to Canadian-born mothers fell 1.4%.
  • Ontario and British Columbia had the highest shares of births to foreign-born mothers at 48.7% each, compared with 23.6% in the Atlantic provinces.
  • Among mothers aged 40 and older, 57.0% of babies had a foreign-born mother, versus 12.8% among mothers 19 and under.
  • The origin mix has shifted, with mothers born in India representing 10.3% of all births in 2024, followed by the Philippines at 3.1% and China at 2.0%.