Aboriginal Populations Distribution vs. Density

Aboriginal Population Distribution

Aboriginal people appear to live all over Canada! Half of Aboriginal people live in urban areas, as you can see on the map.

Aboriginal Population Density

But when we look at “population density” (number of people per square km) the highest concentrations of Aboriginal population in the North and on the Prairies The 22,720 Aboriginal people in Nunavut represented 85% of the territory's total population, the highest concentration in the country. Aboriginal people represented more than one-half (51%) of the population of the Northwest Territories, and almost one-quarter (23%) of the population of the Yukon. The census enumerated 150,040 Aboriginal people in Manitoba and 130,190 in Saskatchewan, in each case about 14% of the province's population. The 156,220 Aboriginal people in Alberta accounted for only 5% of its population.