Are Chinese still a minority in Canada?

Canada conducts a population census every five years. In the past three censuses, 200 1? 2006? 20 1 1 year, the proportion of Chinese in Canada's national population is 3.5%, 4.3% and 4.5% respectively.

According to the 20 16 census, there are 1 769,213 Chinese Canadians (1.76 million 9,265,438+03).

China people account for 5. 1% of the total population, ranking seventh among all ethnic groups. The top six are Canadians, Britons, Scots, French, Irish and Germans. Although Vancouver seems to be all Chinese, in fact, the proportion of Chinese is only 18%. Richmond, nicknamed the "liberated area" by Canadian Chinese, has a population of10.9 million and 90,000 Chinese, and is already the city with the highest proportion of Chinese outside Asia in the world.

Changes in the main countries of origin of Canadian immigrants have changed the overall structure of Canadian immigrants. In 20 16, nearly half of the immigrant population (48. 1%) was born in Asia (including the Middle East), and the proportion of immigrant population born in Europe dropped to 27.7%.

According to the data released by the Bureau of Statistics, at the first federal census in 187 1, 83.6% of the foreign-born population came from the British Isles, 4.8% from other parts of Europe, 10.9% from the United States, and there was no one in Asia (including the Middle East) and Africa.

The census after 100/year 197 1 year showed that the proportion of immigrants born in Britain dropped to 29.5%, while those born in other parts of Europe rose to 50.2%, and immigrants from Asia and Africa accounted for 5.0% and 1.4% respectively.

By 20 16, the proportion of immigrants from Asia (including the Middle East) jumped to 48. 1%, while the proportion of immigrants from Africa kept growing, but only rose to 8.5%.

Among the immigrants who landed in Canada from 20 1 1 to 20 16, 6 1.8% came from Asia (including the Middle East), higher than 56.9% in 20 1 1 and 58.5% in 2006.

According to the forecast of the Bureau of Statistics, if the current trend continues, by 2036, 55.7% to 57.9% of immigrants will be born in Asia, the proportion of immigrants born in Europe will drop to 15.4% to 17.8%, and the proportion of immigrants born in Africa will rise to1/kloc-0.

The increase of immigrants from Asia and other regions and the decrease of immigrants from Europe have changed the racial map of Canada. In addition, the descendants of these non-European immigrants also belong to ethnic minorities. Statistics Canada predicts that by 2036, these people from more than 250 different ethnic minorities will account for 34.4% of the total population.