Visible Minorities and Aboriginals
- Note: Statistics Canada defines visible minorities as defined in the Employment Equity Act which defines visible minorities as 'persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour.'
| Visible minority and Aboriginal population (Canada 2006 Census) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Population group | Population | % of total population | |
| White | 2,869,460 | 70.4% | |
| Visible minority group |
South Asian | 262,290 | 6.4% |
| Chinese | 407,225 | 10% | |
| Black | 28,315 | 0.7% | |
| Filipino | 88,075 | 2.2% | |
| Latin American | 28,965 | 0.7% | |
| Arab | 8,635 | 0.2% | |
| Southeast Asian | 40,685 | 1% | |
| West Asian | 29,810 | 0.7% | |
| Korean | 50,490 | 1.2% | |
| Japanese | 35,060 | 0.9% | |
| Visible minority, n.i.e. | 3,880 | 0.1% | |
| Multiple visible minority | 25,420 | 0.6% | |
| Total visible minority population | 1,008,855 | 24.8% | |
| Aboriginal group |
First Nations | 129,580 | 3.2% |
| Métis | 59,445 | 1.5% | |
| Inuit | 795 | 0% | |
| Aboriginal, n.i.e. | 4,605 | 0.1% | |
| Multiple Aboriginal identity | 1,655 | 0% | |
| Total Aboriginal population | 196,070 | 4.8% | |
| Total population | 4,074,385 | 100% | |
Read more about this topic: Demographics Of British Columbia
Famous quotes containing the words visible and/or minorities:
“Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.”
—W. Stanley Jevons (1835–1882)
“But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)