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In 2021, Quebec's population had become 8,501,833. Quebec accounts for a little under 23% of the Canadian population. Quebec's demographic weight in Canada has been gradually decreasing since 1971 when it was 28% of the population. In 2018, Quebec's three most populated regions are Montreal (2,029,379), Montérégie (1,554,282) and Capitale ...
In 2021, the Indigenous population of Quebec numbered 205,010 (2.5% of the population), including 15,800 Inuit, 116,550 First Nations people, and 61,010 Métis. [234] There is an undercount, as some Indian bands regularly refuse to participate in Canadian censuses.
Canada is divided into 10 provinces and three territories.The majority of Canada's population is concentrated in the areas close to the Canada–US border.Its four largest provinces by area (Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, and Alberta) are also its most populous; together they account for 86.5 percent of the country's population.
A wave of amalgamations took place in Quebec since the previous census, affecting city population figures. In particular, in 2002, both Montreal and Quebec City combined with a number of smaller surrounding cities, though some later chose to leave the amalgamations.
As of the 2021 Canadian census, the population of Quebec was 8,501,833, the land area was 1,298,599.75 km 2 (501,392.17 sq mi) and the population density was 6.54 inhabitants per square kilometre (16.9/sq mi). [1]
Between 2006 and 2011, twenty-four CAs experienced population decline. The fifteen CAs that experienced the greatest population decline were located in British Columbia (two), Manitoba (one), New Brunswick (one), Nova Scotia (three), Ontario (four) and Quebec (four).
Quebec City [a] is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec.As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, [13] and the metropolitan area had a population of 839,311. [14]
Quebec has 41 township municipalities that had a cumulative population of 47,954 and in the 2021 Census of Population. [ 5 ] [ 12 ] Quebec's largest and smallest township municipalities by population are Shefford and Hampden with populations of 7,253 and 193. [ 12 ]