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Filipino Canadians are the second largest subgroup of the overseas Filipinos, surpassed only by the United States, and one of the fastest-growing groups in Canada. Only a small population of Filipinos lived in Canada until the late 20th century. At the 2016 Canadian census, 851,410 people of Filipino descent lived in Canada, mostly in urban areas.
While the Asian Canadian population is diverse, many have ancestry from a few select countries in the continent. As of the 2016 Canadian census, nearly four million or 66% of Asian Canadians can trace their roots to just three countries; China, India and the Philippines. Population of Asian Canadian Groups 2006–2016.
The Filipino community in Toronto comprises 62% of the Filipino population in Canada. In 2007, 140 000 Filipinos lived in Toronto , accounting for 3% of Toronto’s overall population. [ 1 ] According to the study conducted in 2001 , 57% of the Filipino community were female.
The Irish population, meanwhile, witnessed steady, slowing population growth during the late 19th and early 20th century, with the proportion of the total Canadian population dropping from 24.3 percent in 1871 to 12.6 percent in 1921 and falling from the second-largest ethnic group in Canada from to fourth − principally due to massive ...
The main driver of population growth is immigration, [8] [9] with 6.2% of the country's population being made up of temporary residents as of 2023, [10] or about 2.5 million people. [11] Between 2011 and May 2016, Canada's population grew by 1.7 million people, with immigrants accounting for two-thirds of the increase. [12]
Winnipeg also has the largest Filipino population (11.3%) of any major Canadian city, though the Toronto Filipino community is larger in absolute numbers (170,355 in Toronto, relative to 83,305 in Winnipeg). [1] Winnipeg's Filipino population is largely concentrated in the West End and North End areas of the city.
Winnipeg is home to 56,400 Filipinos, making them the third largest Filipino community in Canada by total population, however the largest by percentage (8.7%). [4] The Filipino community in Winnipeg is the largest visible minority group in Winnipeg ahead of the Chinese-Canadians and Indo-Canadians (but excluding aboriginal Canadians, who are ...
7,759,635. 9,765,188. For population figures for Toronto within its pre-1998 city limits, see Old Toronto. The last complete census by Statistics Canada, which was taken in 2021, estimated there were 2,794,356 living in Toronto, [25] making it the most populous city in Canada [26] and the fourth most populous municipality in North America.