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Canada British Columbia Density 2016. British Columbia is a Canadian province with a population of about 5.7 million people. The province represents about 13.2% of the population of the Canadian population. Most of the population is between the ages of 15 and 49.
[2] [3] This was an increase from the 2016 Census, when visible minorities accounted for 22.2% of the total population; from the 2011 Census, when visible minorities accounted for 19.1% of the total population; from the 2006 Census, when the proportion was 16.2%; from 2001, when the proportion was 13.4%; over 1996 (11.2%); over 1991 (9.4%) and ...
Visible minorities have become highly concentrated in Vancouver and its suburbs. [1] The proportion of visible minorities in Vancouver increased from 14 percent to 55 percent of the population between 1981 and 2021. [2] [3] [4] Vancouver has less residential segregation of its ethnic minorities compared to older Canadian cities such as Montreal ...
Hence, the term visible minority is used here in contrast to the overall Canadian population which remains predominantly of European descent. In Metro Vancouver, at the 2021 census , 54.5% of the population were members of non-European ethnic groups, 43.1% were members of European ethnic groups, and 2.4% of the population identified as Indigenous.
Most populous municipality: Toronto, Ontario, 2,794,356 [1] Highest percentage increase in population from 2016: Kapawe'no First Nation 229, Alberta, 1,840.0% [1] This geographic area underwent a boundary change since the 2016 Census that resulted in an adjustment to the 2016 population and/or dwelling counts for this area.
British Columbia is the most diverse province in Canada; as of 2021, the province had the highest proportion of visible minorities in the country. The five largest pan-ethnic groups in the province are Europeans (60 percent), East Asians (14 percent), South Asians (10 percent), Indigenous (6 percent) and Southeast Asians (5 percent).
With a census population of 153,569 people (2021), it is the most populous municipality in the province outside metropolitan Vancouver. [3] Abbotsford–Mission has the third-highest proportion of visible minorities among census metropolitan areas in Canada, after the Greater Toronto Area and the Greater Vancouver CMA. [7]
The Chinese are the largest visible minority group in Alberta and British Columbia, and are the second largest in Ontario. [53] The highest concentration of Chinese Canadians is in Vancouver and Richmond (British Columbia), where they constitute the largest ethnic group by country, and one in five residents are Chinese. [57] [58]