How many immigrants will Canada accept in 2025?

This year, Canada is projecting fewer new immigrants to the country for the first time since COVID-19 lockdowns, part of a plan Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) says will "pause population growth in the short term," according to an October release.

Billed as an effort to relieve pressure on housing and social services, the shift will see:

Permanent resident (PR) targets lowered to 395,000, from 500,000.
PR targets for 2026 and 2027 of 380,000 and 365,000, respectively.
In addition, Canada plans to cool long-term growth in the population of non-permanent residents (NPRs), with policy moves aimed to:

Shrink the proportion of NPRs in Canada to five per cent of the population, from 6.5 per cent.
Decrease the total NPR population by roughly 445,000 this year and another 445,000 next year, followed by an increase of 17,439 in 2027.