Demography of Canada

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Population of Canada: 32,852,849 (April 2007 est.); 31,612,895 (2006 Census)

Provinces and territories

Rank	Name and flag	Abbr	Population	Percentage of national pop.	Land area (km²)	Population density	Seats in House of Commons
1	Ontario	ON		38.8%		13.90	106
2	Quebec	QC		23.4%		5.63	75
3	British Columbia	BC		13.2%		4.70	36
4	Alberta	AB		10.5%		5.38	28
5	Manitoba	MB		3.6%		2.14	14

6 Saskatchewan SK 3.0% 1.67 14 7 Nova Scotia NS 2.8% 17.49 11 8 New Brunswick NB 2.3% 10.48 10 9 Newfoundland and Labrador NL 1.5% 1.35 7 10 Prince Edward Island PE 0.4% 24.41 4 11 Northwest Territories NT 0.1% 0.037 1 12 Nunavut NU 0.1% 0.016 1 13 Yukon YT 0.1% 0.065 1 Total Canada 100% 3.61 308

Sources: Statistics Canada

Age structure

(2006 Census)

	Males		Females
Age Group	Number	Per cent	Number	Per cent
0-4	864,600	2.7%	825,940	2.6%
5-9	926,855	2.9%	882,520	2.8%
10-14	1,065,860	3.3%	1,014,060	3.2%
15-19	1,095,285	3.5%	1,045,205	3.3%
20-24	1,047,950	3.3%	1,032,435	3.3%
25-29	975,945	3.1%	1,009,635	3.2%
30-34	987,730	3.1%	1,032,515	3.3%
35-39	1,083,495	3.4%	1,124,780	3.6%
40-44	1,285,535	4.1%	1,324,925	4.2%
45-49	1,290,125	4.1%	1,330,470	4.2%
50-54	1,158,970	3.7%	1,198,330	3.8%
55-59	1,026,395	3.2%	1,058,230	3.3%
60-64	780,135	2.5%	809,730	2.6%
65-69	593,810	1.9%	640,770	2.0%
70-74	493,460	1.6%	560,320	1.8%
75-79	386,485	1.2%	493,095	1.6%
80-84	251,420	0.8%	395,285	1.3%
85+	161,930	0.5%	358,680	1.1%
Totals	15,475,970	49.0%	16,136,930	51.0%

Median age

• total: 39.5 years
• male: 38.6 years
• female: 40.4 years (2006)

Median age by province and territory, 2006 Census

1. Nova Scotia: 41.8
2. Newfoundland and Labrador: 41.7
3. New Brunswick: 41.5
4. Quebec: 41.0
5. British Columbia: 40.8
6. Prince Edward Island: 40.8
7. Ontario: 39.0
8. Saskatchewan: 38.7
9. Yukon: 38.4
10. Manitoba: 38.1
11. Alberta: 36.0
12. Northwest Territories: 31.2
13. Nunavut: 23.1

Total: 39.5

Sources: Statistics Canada

Population growth rates

Population by province and territory, 2006 and 2001 censuses, 5 year real population growth/decline, percentage population change from 2001 to 2006 and each jurisdiction's percent population of the total population of Canada as of the 2006 Census
(sorted by real population growth (or decline) descending)

Jurisdiction	2006	2001	Growth	% Change	% TOTAL
Ontario				6.6	38.47
Alberta				10.6	10.40
Quebec				4.3	23.87
British Columbia				5.3	13.01
Manitoba				2.6	3.63
Nova Scotia				0.6	2.89
Northwest Territories				11.0	0.13
Nunavut				10.2	0.09
Yukon				5.9	0.09
Prince Edward Island				0.4	0.43
New Brunswick				0.1	2.31
Newfoundland and Labrador				-1.5	1.60
Saskatchewan				-1.1	2.96
TOTAL				5.4	100.00

Derived from: Statistics Canada - (table) Population and Dwelling Counts, for Canada, Provinces and Territories, 2006 and 2001 Censuses - 100% Data

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Compiled/added to Wikipedia: 2007-07-22

Vital statistics

Birth rate: 10.5 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)

Death rate: 7.3 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)

Net migration rate: 6.01 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2003 est.)

Sex ratio:

• at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
• under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
• 15-64 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
• 65 years and over: 0.74 male(s)/female
• total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2003 est.)

Infant mortality rate: 4.88 deaths/1,000 live births (2003 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:

• total population: 79.83 years
• male: 76.44 years
• female: 83.38 years (2003 est.)

Total fertility rate: 1.61 children born/woman (2003 est.)

Ethnicity

Nationality:

• noun: Canadian(s)
• adjective: Canadian

Ethnocultural ancestries

Canadians were able to self-identify one or more ethnocultural ancestries in the 2001 census. It should be noted that respondents were able to identify more than one ethnocultural ancestry, and that percentages may therefore add up to more than 100%. The most common response was 'Canadian', and since the term 'Canadian' is as much an expression of citizenship as of ethnicity, these figures should not be considered an exact record of the relative prevalence of different ethnocultural ancestries.

Single responses: 22.77% of respondents gave a single response of 'Canadian', while a further 16.65% identified with both 'Canadian', and one or more other ancestries. 4.99% of respondents gave a single response of English, 3.58% gave a single response of French, 3.16% gave a single response of Chinese, 2.45% gave a single response of Italian, 2.38% gave a single response of German, 2.05% gave a single response of Scottish, 1.96% gave a single response of East Indian, 1.68% gave a single response of Irish, 1.54% gave a single response of North American Indian, 1.10% gave a single response of Ukrainian and 1.07% gave a single response of Dutch (Netherlands).

Multiple responses: Counting both single and multiple responses, the most commonly identified ethnocultural ancestries were:

	2006 %	2001 %
Canadian		39.42%
English		20.17%
French		15.75%
Scottish		14.03%
Irish		12.90%
German		9.25%
Italian		4.29%
Chinese		3.69%
Ukrainian		3.61%
North American Indian		3.38%
Dutch (Netherlands)		3.12%
Polish		2.76%
East Indian		2.41%
Norwegian		1.23%
Portuguese		1.21%
Welsh		1.18%
Jewish		1.18%

	2006 %	2001 %
Russian		1.14%
Filipino		1.11%
Métis		1.04%
Swedish		0.95%
Hungarian (Magyar)		0.90%
American (USA)		0.84%
Greek		0.73%
Spanish		0.72%
Jamaican		0.71%
Danish		0.58%
Vietnamese		0.51%
British, n.i.e.		0.51%
Austrian		0.50%
Lebanese		0.48%
Romanian		0.44%
Belgian		0.44%
Finnish		0.39%

	2006 %	2001 %
Swiss		0.37%
Korean		0.34%
Québécois		0.33%
African (Black), n.i.e.		0.33%
Croatian		0.33%
Iranian		0.30%
Japanese		0.29%
Haitian		0.28%
Czech		0.27%
Icelandic		0.25%
Pakistani		0.25%
Arab, n.i.e.		0.24%
Acadian		0.24%
Yugoslav, n.i.e.		0.22%
Sri Lankan		0.21%
West Indian		0.20%
Inuit		0.19%

The same data is also grouped more geographically by Statistics Canada as follows:

	2006 %	2001 %
North American		40.21%
British Isles		33.64%
French		15.89%
Western European		12.78%
Eastern European		8.50%
Southern European		7.87%

	2006 %	2001 %
East and Southeast Asian		6.03%
Aboriginal		4.45%
South Asian		3.25%
Northern European		3.22%
Caribbean		1.70%
Other European		1.28%

	2006 %	2001 %
Arab		1.17%
African		0.99%
Latin, Central and South American		0.82%
West Asian		0.69%
Oceania		0.16%

''Percentages are calculated as a proportion of the total number of respondents (29,639,035 in 2001) and may total more than 100% due to dual responses.
All ethnocultural ancestries with more than 56,000 responses are listed in the table above according to the exact terminology used by Statistics Canada.

Aboriginal status

The 2006 census counted a total aboriginal population of 1,172,790 (3.75%) which includes 698,025 North American Indians (2.23%), and 389,785 Métis (1.25%), and 50,480 Inuit (0.16%). Percentages are calculated as a proportion of the total number of respondents (31,241,030)

Visible minorities

	Population	Per cent of population
Chinese	1,029,395	3.4%
South Asian	917,075	3.1%
Black	662,215	2.2%
Filipino	327,550	1.1%
Latin American	216,975	0.7%
Southeast Asian	198,880	0.7%
Arab	194,680	0.7%
West Asian	109,285	0.4%
Korean	100,660	0.3%
Japanese	73,315	0.2%
Visible minority, n.i.e.	98,920	0.3%
Multiple visible minorities	73,875	0.2%
Total visible minority population	3,983,845	13.4%
Source: Statistics Canada, 2001 Census, 97F0010XCB2001002

Religions

Sources: Statistics Canada

Notes:

• Catholic includes Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholic, Polish National Catholic Church, and Old Catholic
• Other Religions also includes Bahá'í Faith, Eckankar, Jainism, Shinto, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Aboriginal belief systems, Neo-Paganism, Wicca, Unity - New Thought - Pantheist, Scientology, Rastafari movement, New Age, Gnostic, Satanism, et cetera
• No Religion includes Atheism, Agnosticism, Humanism, Darwinism, et cetera

Languages

• English 59.3% (official)
• French 23.2% (official)
• Italian 1.6%
• German 1.5%
• Cantonese 1.1%

Literacy

• definition: age 15 and over can read and write
• total population: 99% (2003 est.)
• male: 99%
• female: 99%

Further reading

Roderic Beaujot and Don Kerr, The Changing Face of Canada: Essential Readings in Population, Canadian Scholars' Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-55130-322-2

See also

• Immigration to Canada
• Coptic Orthodoxy in Canada
• Canada
• Aboriginal peoples in Canada
• Visible minority
• Spoken languages of Canada
• Canada 2001 Census
• List of Canadian provinces and territories by population
• Demographics of British Columbia
• Religion in Canada
• Demographics of Ontario

References

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Top Self-Identified Religious Affiliations in Canada

	1991		2001		% change (in numbers)
	Number	%	Number	%
Christian		81		77
- Catholic	12,203,625	45.2	12,936,905	43.6	+4.8
- Christian Orthodox	387,395	1.4	479,620	1.6	+23.8
- Coptic Orthodox	5,020	0.02	10,285	0.03	+104.9
- Romanian Orthodox	4,570	0.02	4,675	0.02	+2.3
- Total Other Christian	9,427,675	34.9	8,654,850	29.2	-8.2
- United Church of Canada	3,093,120	11.3	2,839,125	9.5	-8.2
- Anglican Church of Canada	2,188,110	8.0	2,035,495	6.8	-7.0
- Baptist	663,360	2.4	729,475	2.4	+10.0
- Lutheran	636,205	2.3	606,590	2.0	-4.7
- Presbyterian	636,295	2.3	409,830	1.4	-35.6
- Pentecostal	436,435	1.6	369,475	1.2	-15.3
- Mennonite	207,970	0.8	191,465	0.6	-7.9
- Jehovah's Witnesses	168,375	0.6	154,745	0.5	-8.1
- Methodist	83,910	0.3	106,545	0.4	+27.0
- Mormon	100,770	0.4	104,750	0.3	+3.9
- Salvation Army	112,345	0.4	87,785	0.3	-21.9
- Christian Reformed Church in North America	84,685	0.3	76,665	0.3	-9.5
- Christian and Missionary Alliance	59,365	0.2	66,280	0.2	+11.9
- Adventists	52,365	0.2	62,875	0.2	+20.1
- Christian, not included elsewhere¹	353,040	1.3	780,450	2.6	+121.1
No religion	3,397,000	12.6	4,900,095	16.5	+44.2
Other
- Muslim	253,265	0.9	579,640	2.0	+128.9
- Jewish	318,185	1.2	329,995	1.1	+3.7
- Buddhist	163,415	0.6	300,345	1.0	+83.8
- Hindu	157,015	0.6	297,200	1.0	+89.3
- Sikh	147,440	0.5	278,410	0.9	+88.8
¹ Includes persons who report only “Christian”, only "Protestant", and those in denominations less than 60,000 * For comparability purposes, 1991 data are presented according to 2001 boundaries.