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Aboriginal Population, 2001

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Abstract

In the 2001 census, people who identified themselves as Aboriginal accounted for 3.3% of the nation's total population, compared with 2.8% five years earlier. This represents a total of 976 305 persons whom identified themselves with one of these groups - North American Indian, Métis or Inuit. This count was 22.2% higher than the 1996 figure of 799 010. In contrast, the non-Aboriginal population grew only 3.4% between 1996 and 2001.

In 2001, almost one-half (49%) of the population who identified themselves as Aboriginal lived in urban areas, up from 47% in 1996. A total of 245 000 Aboriginal people, or 25% of all Aboriginal people, lived in 10 of the nation's 27 census metropolitan areas in 2001. At the same time, the proportion of Aboriginal people who lived on Indian reserves and settlements declined from 33% to 31%. The overall proportion of the population that lived in rural non-reserve areas declined slightly from 20.4% to 19.5%.

Map Source: Adapted from Statistics Canada, Profile of citizenship, immigration, birthplace, generation status, ethnic origin, visible minorities and Aboriginal peoples, for Canada, provinces, territories, census divisions and census subdivisions - 20% sample data, 2001 Census, Catalogue no 95F0489XCB2001001.

Aboriginal Identity refers to those persons who reported identifying with at least one Aboriginal group - North American Indian, Métis or Inuit. Also included are individuals who did not report an Aboriginal identity, but did report themselves as a Registered or Treaty Indian, and/or Band or First Nation membership.

The Daily is Statistics Canada's official release bulletin. The Daily for January 21, 2003, marked the public release of this census variable. Highlight tables allowing users to perform simple rank and sort functions with the data at various levels of geography are available for this variable here: Aboriginal Peoples of Canada: Highlight Tables, 2001 Census. Technical notes for this variable can be found at 2001 Census Technical Reports and User Guides.

The text was adapted from Statistics Canada, Aboriginal peoples of Canada: A demographic profile, Catalogue number 96F0030XIE2001007. Statistics Canada information is used with the permission of Statistics Canada. Information on the availability of the wide range of data from Statistics Canada can be obtained from the Statistics Canada’s Regional Offices, its World Wide Web site at: www.statcan.ca , and its toll-free access number 1-800-263-1136.

Please read the following Data and Mapping Notes for information on how the map was derived.

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