Canada: People and Cent

canada: The census counted 145,645 children aged 0-4, 8.7 per cent of Aboriginal people in Canada. -- One in five Indigenous people in Canada is living in a dwelling that needs major repairs, while one in 10 lives in a household that has a space shortfall of at least one bedroom. -- However, 7.3 per cent of Indigenous people in Canada are 65 or older, compared with 4.8 per cent in 2006 -- and that proportion could double by the year 2036. -- The census counted 145,645 Indigenous children aged 0-4 in 2016. -- The number of people who identified as First Nations reached 979,230 last year, up 39.3 per cent over 2006, while the Metis population grew by 51.2 per cent over the same period to 587,545 people, according to CTV. The census recorded 65,025 Inuit, 29.1 per cent higher than in 2006. -- Winnipeg 92,810 Edmonton 76,205 Vancouver 61,460 and Toronto 46,315 reported the largest Indigenous populations, while the highest proportion of Aboriginal people were in Thunder Bay 12.7 per cent Winnipeg 12.2 per cent and Saskatoon 10.9 per cent . -- In 2016, 7.5 million people -- about 21.9 per cent of the total population -- reported being foreign-born individuals who immigrated to Canada. Some selected highlights if undefined typeof b in -- The census counted 1.67 million Indigenous people in Canada in 2016, accounting for 4.9 per cent of the total population -- up from 3.8 per cent in 2006 for a growth rate of 42.5 per cent over the last 10 years, four times the rate of the non-Indigenous population. -- The average age of the Indigenous population was 32.1 years, nearly a decade younger than the non-Indigenous population at 40.9 years. In 1921, the census reported that proportion at 22.3 per cent, the highest since Confederation. During the first four months of 2016, refugees accounted for one-quarter of all immigrants admitted to Canada, thanks to an influx of refugees from Syria. -- Asia, including the Middle East, remains the largest source of recent immigrants to Canada at 61.8 per cent, followed by Africa at 13.4 per cent. Statistics Canada projects that proportion could reach between 25 and 30 per cent by 2036. -- The census counted 1,212,075 new immigrants who permanently settled in Canada between 2011 and 2016, 3.5 per cent of the total population last year. -- 60 per cent entered under the economic category, 26.8 per cent to join family already in Canada and 11.6 per cent as refugees. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.