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Canada has been able to avoid criticism for its childhood poverty rate as statistics often do not include the rates of poverty within Indigenous reserves and the three territories in Canada. [105] Once the data on childhood poverty in these areas is included, the statistics suggest that the number of children living in deprivation rises to ...
In terms of gender and aboriginal poverty in Canada, there does tend to be a gap between aboriginal men and women when it comes to income and economical status. [41] Among aboriginal individuals living in rural Canada, women are less likely to have employment and often have a much lower annual income. [41]
For many Indigenous communities in Canada, food insecurity is a major, ongoing problem. [1] [2] A variety of factors, from poverty, the COVID-19 pandemic, government inaction and climate change, exacerbated by both historical and ongoing discrimination faced by Indigenous Canadians, have played a role in the creation of this crisis.
Child poverty has a disproportionately high effect on Indigenous households in Canada. [4] According to a 2019 study by researchers at the Assembly of First Nations and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), nearly 50% of Indigenous children in Canada—both on and off reserve—were living in poverty. [4]
As noted above, many aboriginal communities face extreme poverty. According to the Poverty by Postal Code report there has been a "dramatic rise in the number of higher poverty neighbourhoods in the City of Toronto in the last two decades, approximately doubling every ten years, from 30 in 1981, to 66 in 1991, to 120 in 2001". [11]
Indigenous people in the Arctic statistically fall below their nation's poverty line. Indigenous populations that were once largely self-sufficient and relatively food secure in the Arctic's harsh environment are today struggling to sustain themselves as a result of poverty and also the impacts of climate change [citation needed].
Indigenous peoples in Canada (also known as Aboriginals) [2] are the Indigenous peoples within the boundaries of Canada. They comprise the First Nations , [ 3 ] Inuit , [ 4 ] and Métis , [ 5 ] representing roughly 5.0% of the total Canadian population .
Indigenous women comprise 42 per cent of women in custody. [21] This is despite the fact that they comprise 4.9 per cent of the female population of Canada. [22] Indigenous women experience higher rates of poverty, precarious employment, and are statistically more likely to be single care givers.