British Columbia - Demography

Demography

Main article: Demographics of British Columbia See also: List of cities in Canada#British Columbia, List of communities in British Columbia, and List of municipalities in British Columbia

Year	Population	Five Year % change	Ten Year % change	Rank Among Provinces
1851	55,000	n/a	n/a	6
1861	51,524	n/a	−6.3	6
1871	36,247	n/a	−35.3	7
1881	49,459	n/a	36.4	8
1891	98,173	n/a	98.5	8
1901	178,657	n/a	82.0	6
1911	392,480	n/a	119.7	6
1921	524,582	n/a	33.7	6
1931	694,263	n/a	32.3	6
1941	817,861	n/a	17.8	3
1951	1,165,210	n/a	42.5	3
1956	1,398,464	20.0	n/a	3
1961	1,629,082	16.5	39.8	3
1966	1,873,674	15.0	34.0	3
1971	2,184,620	16.6	34.1	3
1976	2,466,610	12.9	31.6	3
1981	2,744,467	11.3	25.6	3
1986	2,883,370	5.1	16.9	3
1991	3,282,061	13.8	19.6	3
1996	3,724,500	13.5	29.2	3
2001	3,907,738	4.9	19.1	3
2006	4,113,487	5.3	10.4	3
2011	4,400,057	6.9	12.6	3

Religious groups in BC (1991 & 2001) & Canada (2001)

	1991 BC %	2001 BC %	2001 Canada %	BC 2001 number
Total population	100%	100%	100%	3,868,875
No religious affiliation	30.0%	35.1%	16.5%	1,388,300	includes Agnostic, Atheist, Humanist, and No religion, and other responses, such as Darwinism, and so on.
Protestant	41.9%	31.4%	29.2%	1,213,295
Catholic	18.3%	17.2%	43.6%	675,320	includes Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholic .
Christian Orthodox	0.7%	0.9%	1.6%	35,655	includes Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox
Christian n. i. e.	2.7%	5.2%	2.6%	200,345	Includes mostly answers of 'Christian', not otherwise stated
Sikh	2.3%	3.5%	0.9%	135,310
Buddhist	1.1%	2.2%	1%	85,540
Muslim	0.8%	1.5%	2%	56,220
Hindu	0.6%	0.8%	1%	31,500
Jewish	0.5%	0.5%	1.1%	21,230
Eastern religions		0.3%	0.1%	9,970	includes Baha'i, Eckankar, Jains, Shinto, Taoist, Zoroastrian and Eastern religions, not identified elsewhere
Other religions		0.4%	0.2%	16,205	includes Aboriginal spirituality, Pagan, Wicca, Unity – New Thought – Pantheist, Scientology, Rastafarian, New Age, Gnostic,and so on.

The largest denominations by number of adherents according to the 2001 census were none (atheist, agnostic, and so on.) with 1,388,300 (35.9%); Protestant with 1,213,295 (31.4%); the Roman Catholic Church with 675,320 (17%); the United Church of Canada with 361,840 (9%); and the Anglican Church of Canada with 298,375 (8%).