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Mar 30, 2022 · The Employment Equity Act defines visible minorities as “persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour.” The main groups designated as visible minorities are South Asian, Chinese, Black, Filipino, Arab, Latin American, Southeast Asian, West Asian, Korean and Japanese.
In 2021, three racialized groups alone accounted for more than 16.1% of Canada's total population. These groups are South Asians (2.6 million; 7.1 percent), Chinese (1.7 million; 4.7 percent) and Blacks (1.5 million; 4.3 percent), each with a population of more than one million.
Aug 29, 2024 · In 2020, more than 38 percent of women and nearly 32 percent of men from visible minorities reported having experienced discrimination based on their race, color, ethnicity, or culture in Canada.
Aug 23, 2023 · In 2021, one in four people in Canada (26.5%) were from the racialized population, twice the corresponding share (13.4%) in 2001 (Statistics Canada, 2003 and 2022a). Furthermore, the composition of the racialized population has changed as smaller groups increased their population share.
Feb 16, 2022 · In addition to the higher levels of discrimination experienced by Black and Indigenous people, when looking at other ethno-cultural groups designated as visible minorities in Canada, discrimination was also more prevalent among certain groups.
"This reference guide provides information to help users effectively use and interpret visible minority and population group data from the 2021 Census. This guide contains definitions and explanations of concepts, questions, classifications, data quality and comparability with other sources for this topic"--Provided by publisher.
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Jul 17, 2020 · Canada is an increasingly diverse country—data from the 2016 Census indicated that 22.3% of the population were designated as belonging to one or more visible minority groups. Through population projections from 2017, Statistics Canada projects that this percentage would rise to between 31.2% and 35.9% by 2036.
