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European Canadians are Canadians who can trace their ancestry to the continent of Europe. [2] [3] They form the largest panethnic group within Canada.In the 2021 Canadian census, 19,062,115 people or 52.5% of the population self-identified ethnic origins from Europe.
Statistics Canada projects that visible minorities will make up between 38.2% and 43.0% of the total Canadian population by 2041, [75] [76] compared with 26.5% in 2021. [ 77 ] [ 3 ] Among the working-age population (15 to 64 years), meanwhile, visible minorities are projected to represent between 42.1% and 47.3% of Canada's total population ...
The 2021 Canadian census counted a total population of 36,991,981, an increase of around 5.2 per cent over the 2016 figure. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Between 1990 and 2008, the population increased by 5.6 million, equivalent to 20.4 per cent overall growth.
Statistics Canada projects that immigrants will represent between 29.1% and 34.0% of Canada's population in 2041, compared with 23.0% in 2021, [10] while the Canadian population with at least one foreign born parent (first and second generation persons) could rise to between 49.8% and 54.3%, up from 44.0% in 2021.
About 25% of Canadians were "racialized"; [2] By 2021, 23% of the Canadian population were immigrants—the "largest proportion since Confederation", according to Statistics Canada. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Prior to the early 1970s, most new Canadians came from Europe.
As of 2016, 11,211,850 Canadians had British Isles geographical origins, constituting 32.5% of the total Canadian population and 44.6% of the total European Canadian population. [1] However, this number is likely an undercount due to the "Canadian" ethnic origin category on the census being the sole choice for many Canadians of British Isles ...
Statistics Canada projects that, ... an ethnic group of mixed European and First Nations parentage. ... This represents about 8% of the total Canadian population. Of ...
The population of the Canadian prairies grew rapidly in the last decade of the 19th century, and the population of Saskatchewan more than quintupled from 91,000 in 1901 to 492,000 in 1911. [12] The vast majority of these people were immigrants from Europe.