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Over five million Canadians identified themselves as a member of a visible minority group in the 2006 Census, accounting for 16.2% of the total population. This was an increase from 2001 where visible minorities accounted for 13.4% of the total population; an increase from 1996 when the proportion was 11.2%; and a major increase over 1991 (9.4%) and 1981 (4.7%). The increase represents a significant shift in Canada's demographics since the advent of that country's multiculturalism policies.# K) n) s* L7 e; }+ {2 D4 |8 x
8 D% W+ U' m4 |+ O9 j1 R ?% Y; i+ s( b1 lOf the provinces, Ontario had the highest proportion of visible minorities, representing 24.8% of its population, followed by British Columbia at 22.8%. In the 2006 census, South Asian Canadians overtook ethnic Chinese as Canada’s largest visible minority group. In 2006, Statistics Canada estimated that there were 1.3 million South Asian people in Canada compared with 1.2 million Chinese.[2] In 2001, there were approximately 1 million Chinese Canadians representing 3.5% of the country’s population, followed by South Asian Canadians (3.1%) and Black Canadians (2.2%). |
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