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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 10.
Published in final edited form as: Population (Engl Ed). 2012 Jun 1;67(2):177–280. doi: 10.3917/pope.1202.0177

Table 6.

Population of visible minorities in Canada in 2006 by origin

Ethnic origin Number
(thousands)		 %
Population as a whole 31,241 100.0
Population of visible minorities
  of which: South Asian origins		 5,068
1,263		 16.2
24.9
    Chinese 1,217 24.0
    Black 784 15.5
    Filipino 411 8.1
    Latin American origins 304 6.0
    Arab origins 266 5.2
    Southeast Asian origins 240 4.7
    West Asian 157 3.1
    Korean 142 2.8
    Multiple visible minorities 133 2.6
    Japanese 81 1.6
    Other visible minority 71 1.4

Source: Statistics Canada, 2006 Census, at http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/demo52a–eng.htm, accessed on 1 March 2012.