Only a small population of Filipinos lived in Canada until the late 20th century. As of the 2016 Canadian Census, 851,410 people of Filipino descent lived in Canada, mostly in urbanized areas. This number is growing yearly because of Canada's more liberal immigration laws to compensate for low population growth. Filipino-Canadians are the third-largest Asian Canadian, group in the nation after the Indian and Chinese communities. They are also the largest group from Southeast Asia in the country. Between the 2011 Census and the 2016 Census, the Filipino community in Canada grew from 662,605 to 851,410, a growth of about 27%, compared to the rest of Canada, which grew by 5% during the same time period.