New data released by the federal government show that the number of international students coming to Canada dropped significantly in the first half of the year.

Figures show there were 214,520 fewer arrivals in Canada between January and June of 2025 compared to the same period in the previous year.

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Of those, 88,617 represented a reduction in the number of new student arrivals, while the remainder, 125,903 fewer arrivals, was a drop in new foreign workers.

For the month of June, there were 4,185 new student arrivals this year, compared to 11,287 last June. Those numbers tend to climb with the start of the new school year — last August saw an influx of almost 80,000 international students — but July and August numbers for 2025 when they are calculated are likely to c

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