Demographics of Quebec - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The demographics of Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

constitutes a complex and sensitive issue, especially as it relates to the National Question of Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

.

Quebec is the only province in Canada to feature a francophone

Francophone

The adjective francophone means French-speaking, typically as primary language, whether referring to individuals, groups, or places. Often, the word is used as a noun to describe a natively French-speaking person....

(French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

-speaking) majority, and where anglophones (English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

-speakers) constitute an officially recognized minority group.

However, while francophones currently constitute approximately a little under 80% of the overall population, they also conversely feature a low birthrate, especially in the cities of Montreal and Quebec. If such trends continue, researchers predict that the low birthrate amongst francophones and the lack of adoption of the French language

French language

and assimilation into the francophone culture by allophone

Allophone

In phonology, an allophone is one of a set of multiple possible spoken sounds used to pronounce a single phoneme. For example, and are allophones for the phoneme in the English language...

(those whose primary language is neither English nor French) immigrants will cause the French-speaking population on the island of Montreal to dive below the 50 percent mark in the coming decades, but not the Montreal metropolitan census area as a whole.

A recent decline in the francophone birth rate, and perceived weakening position of the French language in Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, led to the passing of the Charter of the French Language
Charter of the French Language
The Charter of the French Language , also known as Bill 101 and Loi 101, is a law in the province of Quebec in Canada defining French, the language of the majority of the population, as the only official language of Quebec, and framing fundamental language rights for everyone in the province...

(Bill 101) by the provincial government

Government of Quebec

The Government of Quebec refers to the provincial government of the province of Quebec. Its powers and structure are set out in the Constitution Act, 1867....

in order to protect the status of the French language as well as to increase the francophone population in the future. While the use of French throughout Quebec has been strengthened, the proportion of Montreal residents who are native French speakers has continued to decline due to an influx of immigrants. However, due to the Charter of the French Language, children of allophone immigrants are enrolled in the francophone public school system. Thus, they usually become fluent in French as well as in English.

Quebec is also home to "one of the world's most valuable founder populations", the Quebec Founder Population. Founder populations are very valuable to medical genetic research as they are pockets of low genetic variability which provide a useful research context for discovering gene-disease linkages. The Quebec Founder Population arose through the influx of people into Quebec from France in the 17th century to mid-18th century; though this influx was large, a high proportion of the immigrants either died or returned to France, leaving a founder population of approximately 2,600 people. About seven million Canadians (along with several million French Americans in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

) are descendants of these original 2,600 colonists.

Population

Population since 1851:

Year	Population	Five-year % change	Ten-year % change	Rank among provinces
1851	892,061	n/a	n/a	2
1861	1,111,566	n/a	24.6	2
1871	1,191,516	n/a	7.2	2
1881	1,359,027	n/a	14.1	2
1891	1,488,535	n/a	9.5	2
1901	1,648,898	n/a	10.8	2
1911	2,005,776	n/a	21.6	2
1921	2,360,665	n/a	17.8	2
1931	2,874,255	n/a	21.8	2
1941	3,331,882	n/a	15.9	2
1951	4,055,681	n/a	21.8	2
1956	4,628,378	14.1	n/a	2
1961	5,259,211	13.6	29.7	2
1966	5,780,845	9.9	24.9	2
1971	6,027,765	4.3	14.6	2
1976	6,234,445	3.4	7.8	2
1981	6,438,403	3.3	6.8	2
1986	6,532,460	1.5	4.8	2
1991	6,895,963	5.6	7.1	2
1996	7,138,795	3.5	9.3	2
2001	7,237,479	1.4	5.0	2
2006	7,546,131	4.3	5.7	2

Source: Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada is the Canadian federal government agency commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. Its headquarters is in Ottawa....

http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/demo62f.htm http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/popdwell/Table.cfm?T=101

Vital statistics

Age structure:
(2001 census)

Age Groups	Total	Male	Female
0–4 years	375,770	192,280	183,490
5–9 years	457,225	232,650	224,575
10–14 years	458,585	234,140	224,445
15–24 years	949,475	481,990	467,485
25–34 years	921,770	459,960	461,810
35–44 years	1,243,970	617,510	626,460
45–54 years	1,109,945	548,080	561,865
55–64 years	760,905	370,960	389,945
65–74 years	547,185	248,740	298,445
75–84 years	318,185	120,940	197,245
85 years and over	94,450	25,580	68,870
Total	7,237,480	3,532,845	3,704,635

Source : Statistics Canada

Statistics Canada

Statistics Canada is the Canadian federal government agency commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. Its headquarters is in Ottawa....

Quebec's fertility rate is now higher than the Canadian average. At 1.74 children per woman in 2008, it is above the Canada-wide rate of 1.59, and has increased for five consecutive years, reaching its highest level since 1976. However, it is still below the replacement fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman. This contrasts with its fertility rates before 1960, which were among the highest of any industrialized society. For example, between 1951 and 1961, the population grew nearly 30% with minimal immigration, a natural growth rate matched today only by some African countries.

Although Quebec is home to only 23.9% of the population of Canada, the number of international adoptions in Quebec is the highest of all provinces of Canada. In 2001, 42% of international adoptions in Canada were carried out in Quebec.

Population growth rate: 0.7% (2006)

Birth rate: 9.9% (2005)

Synthetic fertility index: 1.61 (2006)

Death rate: 7.4% (2003)

Net migration rate: 4.1% (2003)

Infant mortality rate: 0.46% (2004)

Stillbirth rate: 3.8% -- 3.5% notwithstanding requested abortions (2002)

Life expectancy: In 2002, life expectancy was 76.3 years for males and 81.9 years for females.

Urbanisation: In 2001, 80.4% of Quebecers lived in urban areas.

Literacy: International Adult Literacy Survey 47% Prose, 42% Document, 40% Quantitative (1996)
Note: This is not the official literacy rate, and should not be used in comparisons with rates calculated using different procedures.

Mother tongue language

Mother tongue language (Statistics Canada: 2006
Canada 2006 Census
The Canada 2006 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population. Census day was May 16, 2006. The next census following will be the 2011 Census. Canada's total population enumerated by the 2006 census was 31,612,897...

, 2001
Canada 2001 Census
The Canada 2001 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population. Census day was May 15, 2001. On that day, Statistics Canada attempted to count every person in Canada. The total population count of Canada was 30,007,094. This was a 4% increase over 1996 Census of 28,846,761. In...

, 1996
Canada 1996 Census
The Canada 1996 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population. Census day was May 14, 1996. On that day, Statistics Canada attempted to count every person in Canada. The total population count of Canada was 28,846,761...

)
Language(s)	2006		2001		1996
Language(s)	Population	Percentage (%)	Population	Percentage (%)	Population	Percentage (%)
French French language French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...	5,877,660	79	5,761,765	80.8	5,742,575	80.4
English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...	575,555	7.7	557,040	7.8	568,405	8
Both English and French	43,335	0.6	50,060	0.7	97,225	1.4
Non-official languages	939,350	12.6	756,710	10.6	730,595	10.2
Total population	7,435,905	100	7,125,580	100	7,138,795	100

Language spoken at home

Language spoken most often at home (Statistics Canada: 2006)
Language	Population	Percentage (%)
French	6,027,735	84.4
English	744,430	10.4
Both English and French	52,325	0.7
Non-official languages	518,320	7.3
Both French and a non-official language	54,490	0.7
Both English and a non-official language	26,560	0.4
French, English and a non-official language	12,035	0.2
Total population	7,435,905	100

Knowledge of official languages

Knowledge of official languages (Statistics Canada: 2006)
Language	Population	Percentage (%)
French only	4,010,880	53.9
English only	336,785	4.5
Both English and French	3,017,860	40.6
Neither English or French	70,375	0.9
Total population	7,435,905	100

Ethnic origin

Ethnic origin	Population	Percent
Canadien / Canadian English Canadian An English Canadian is a Canadian of English ancestry; it is used primarily in contrast with French Canadian. Canada is an officially bilingual state, with English and French official language communities. Immigrant cultural groups ostensibly integrate into one or both of these communities, but...	4,474,115	60.1%
French French Canadian French Canadian or Francophone Canadian, , generally refers to the descendents of French colonists who arrived in New France in the 17th and 18th centuries...	2,151,655	28.9%
Irish Irish Canadian Irish Canadian are immigrants and descendants of immigrants who originated in Ireland. 1.2 million Irish immigrants arrived, 1825 to 1970, at least half of those in the period from 1831-1850. By 1867, they were the second largest ethnic group , and comprised 24% of Canada's population...	406,085	5.5%
Italian	299,655	4.0%
English English Canadian An English Canadian is a Canadian of English ancestry; it is used primarily in contrast with French Canadian. Canada is an officially bilingual state, with English and French official language communities. Immigrant cultural groups ostensibly integrate into one or both of these communities, but...	245,155	3.3%
North American Indian First Nations First Nations is a term that collectively refers to various Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis. There are currently over 630 recognised First Nations governments or bands spread across Canada, roughly half of which are in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia. The...	219,815	3.0%
Scottish Scottish Canadian Scottish Canadians are people of Scottish descent or heritage living in Canada. As the third-largest ethnic group in Canada and among the first to settle in Canada, Scottish people have made a large impact on Canadian culture since colonial times...	202,515	2.7%
Québécois	140,075	1.9%
German	131,795	1.8%
Chinese Chinese Canadian Chinese Canadians are Canadians of Chinese descent. They constitute the second-largest visible minority group in Canada, after South Asian Canadians...	91,900	1.24%
Haiti Haiti Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island... an	91,435	1.23%
Spanish	72,090	0.97%
Jewish	71,380	0.96%
Greek	65,985	0.89%
Polish	62,800	0.84%
Lebanese	60,950	0.83%
Portuguese	57,445	0.77%
Belgian	43,275	0.58%
East Indian	41,600	0.56%
Romanian Romanian Canadian According to the Canadian Census data of 2006, there are almost 200,000 Romanian-Canadians. Some sources estimates that this number might be as high as cca. 400,000 Canadians of Romanian descent.- Before World War I:...	40,320	0.54%
Russian	40,155	0.54%
Moroccan Moroccan people The Moroccan people are a people that share a common Moroccan culture, ancestry and speak the Moroccan variant of the Arabic language or a Berber language as a mother tongue....	36,700	0.49%
American (USA)	36,695	0.49%
Métis Métis people (Canada) The Métis are one of the Aboriginal peoples in Canada who trace their descent to mixed First Nations parentage. The term was historically a catch-all describing the offspring of any such union, but within generations the culture syncretised into what is today a distinct aboriginal group, with...	36,280	0.49%
Vietnamese Vietnamese Canadian Mainstream Vietnamese communities began arriving in Canada in the mid 1970s and early 1980s as refugees or boat people following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, though a couple thousand were already living in Quebec before then, most of whom were students...	33,815	0.45%
Acadian Acadian The Acadians are the descendants of the 17th-century French colonists who settled in Acadia . Acadia was a colony of New France...	32,950	0.44%
Ukrainian Ukrainian Canadian A Ukrainian Canadian is a person of Ukrainian descent or origin who was born in or immigrated to Canada. In 2006, there were an estimated 1,209,085 persons residing in Canada of Ukrainian origin, making them Canada's ninth largest ethnic group; and giving Canada the world's third-largest...	31,955	0.43%
African (Black)	30,170	0.41%
Filipino Filipino people The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....	25,680	0.35%
Algerian	25,150	0.34%
British Isles British people The British are citizens of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, any of the Channel Islands, or of any of the British overseas territories, and their descendants...	23,445	0.32%
Armenian	23,230	0.31%
Dutch (Netherlands)	23,015	0.31%
Hungarian (Magyar)	22,585	0.30%
Swiss	20,280	0.27%
Egyptian	17,950	0.24%
Salvadoran	15,770	0.21%
Syrian Syrian Canadian Canadians of Syrian ancestry refers to Canadians who can trace their ancestry back to Syria.-History:The immigration of Syrians to Canada began towards the end of the 19th century, with the first known Syrian immigrant, Ibrahim Abu Nadir, arriving in 1882...	14,925	0.20%

Ethnic origin	Population	Percent
Colombia Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the... n	14,845	0.20%
Mexican Mexican people Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....	14,215	0.19%
Berbers Berber people Berbers are the indigenous peoples of North Africa west of the Nile Valley. They are continuously distributed from the Atlantic to the Siwa oasis, in Egypt, and from the Mediterranean to the Niger River. Historically they spoke the Berber language or varieties of it, which together form a branch...	13,415	0.18%
Inuit Inuit The Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada , Denmark , Russia and the United States . Inuit means “the people” in the Inuktitut language...	12,915	0.17%
Iranian	12,370	0.17%
Peru Peru Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.... vian	12,335	0.17%
Jamaican Jamaican Canadian Jamaican Canadians are Canadians of Jamaican descent, or Jamaican-born people with Canadian citizenship. The population, according to Canada's 2006 Census, is 231,110. Jamaican Canadians comprise about 30% of the entire black Canadian population.-History:...	11,935	0.16%
Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan... i	11,710	0.16%
Chile Chile Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far... an	11,585	0.16%
Turk Turkish people Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...	11,385	0.15%
Austrian Austrians Austrians are a nation and ethnic group, consisting of the population of the Republic of Austria and its historical predecessor states who share a common Austrian culture and Austrian descent....	11,295	0.15%
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the... n	10,750	0.14%
Congolese Kongo people The Bakongo or the Kongo people , also sometimes referred to as Kongolese or Congolese, is a Bantu ethnic group which lives along the Atlantic coast of Africa from Pointe-Noire to Luanda, Angola...	10,190	0.14%
Cambodia Cambodia Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia... n	10,175	0.14%
Welsh Welsh Canadian As of 2006 440,965 Canadian identify themselves as having some Welsh descent, with 27,115 of these identifying as exclusively Welsh.-The Welsh in Canada:...	9,815	0.13%
Black Black Black is the color of objects that do not emit or reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of light...	9,520	0.13%
Tunisia Tunisia Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area... n	7,870	0.11%
Bulgarian	6,955	0.09%
Guatemala Guatemala Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast... n	6,880	0.09%
Laotian Lao people The Lao are an ethnic subgroup of Tai/Dai in Southeast Asia.-Names:The etymology of the word Lao is uncertain, although it may be related to tribes known as the Ai Lao who appear in Han Dynasty records in China and Vietnam as a people of what is now Yunan Province...	6,425	0.09%
Norwegian Norwegian Canadian Norwegian Canadians are Canadians of Norwegian descent.There are approximately 1.2 million Canadians of Scandinavian descent living in Canada, representing around 3.9% of Canada’s population. In the Canada 2006 Census 432,515 Canadian residents claimed Norwegian ancestry, making up 1.4% of the...	6,350	0.09%
Bangladeshi Bengali people The Bengali people are an ethnic community native to the historic region of Bengal in South Asia. They speak Bengali , which is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit and Sanskrit languages. In their native language, they are referred to as বাঙালী...	6,095	0.08%
Yugoslav Yugoslavs Yugoslavs is a national designation used by a minority of South Slavs across the countries of the former Yugoslavia and in the diaspora...	6,090	0.08%
Swedish	5,975	0.08%
Afghan	5,855	0.08%
Lithuanians Lithuanians Lithuanians are the Baltic ethnic group native to Lithuania, where they number around 2,765,600 people. Another million or more make up the Lithuanian diaspora, largely found in countries such as the United States, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Russia, United Kingdom and Ireland. Their native language...	5,665	0.08%
Korean Korean Canadian Korean Canadians are Canadians of Korean descent. According to South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, there were 223,322 Koreans or people of Korean descent in Canada , making them the fourth-largest Korean diaspora population...	5,555	0.07%
Czech	5,540	0.07%
West Indian	5,420	0.07%
Barbadian Barbadian people Barbadians are people originating on the Caribbean island of Barbados whether they live there or in the Barbadian diaspora.Rihanna is by far the most popular Barbadian on the planet.-Diaspora:...	5,340	0.07%
Croatia Croatia Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ... n	5,330	0.07%
Latin/Central/South American	5,270	0.07%
European Europe Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...	5,130	0.07%
Danish	5,130	0.07%
Palestinian Palestinian people The Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...	4,940	0.07%
Trinidadian/Tobagan Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...	4,810	0.06%
Japanese	4,560	0.06%
Slovak Slovaks The Slovaks, Slovak people, or Slovakians are a West Slavic people that primarily inhabit Slovakia and speak the Slovak language, which is closely related to the Czech language.Most Slovaks today live within the borders of the independent Slovakia...	4,560	0.06%

Percentages are calculated as a proportion of the total number of respondents (7,435,905) and may total more than 100 percent due to dual responses.
Only groups with 0.06 percent or more of respondents are shown.

Ethnicity according to the older more general system of classification is shown below:

Origins	2001	%
North American	4,989,230	70.02%
French	2,123,185	29.80%
British Isles	547,790	7.69%
Southern European	409,095	5.74%
Aboriginal	159,900	2.24%
Western European	153,750	2.16%
Arab (including Lebanese Lebanese people The Lebanese people are a nation and ethnic group of Levantine people originating in what is today the country of Lebanon, including those who had inhabited Mount Lebanon prior to the creation of the modern Lebanese state.... )	135,750	1.91%
East and Southeast Asian	132,280	1.86%

Origins	2001	%
Eastern European	130,410	1.83%
Caribbean	108,475	1.52%
Other European	86,450	1.21%
Latin, Central and South American	65,150	0.91%
South Asian	62,585	0.88%
African	48,715	0.68%
West Asian	40,960	0.57%
Northern European	15,295	0.21%

Percentages are calculated as a proportion of the total number of respondents (7,125,580) and may total more than 100% due to dual responses
Only groups of more than 0.02% are shown

Aboriginal status

The 2006 census counted a total aboriginal population of 108,425 (1.5%) including 65,085 North American Indians

First Nations

First Nations is a term that collectively refers to various Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis. There are currently over 630 recognised First Nations governments or bands spread across Canada, roughly half of which are in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia. The...

(0.9%), 27,985 Métis

Métis people (Canada)

The Métis are one of the Aboriginal peoples in Canada who trace their descent to mixed First Nations parentage. The term was historically a catch-all describing the offspring of any such union, but within generations the culture syncretised into what is today a distinct aboriginal group, with...

(0.4%), and 10,950 Inuit

Inuit

The Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada , Denmark , Russia and the United States . Inuit means “the people” in the Inuktitut language...

(0.15%). It should be noted however, that there is a significant undercount, as many of the biggest Indian bands regularly refuse to participate in Canadian censuses for political reasons regarding the question of aboriginal sovereignty. In particular, the largest Mohawk Iroquois reserves (Kahnawake, Akwesasne and Kanesatake) were not counted.’’{Percentages are calculated as a proportion of the total number of respondents (7,435,905)}’’

Visible minorities

Visible minority	2001	%	1996	%

Black	152,195	2.14%	131,970	1.87%

Arab/West Asian	85,770	1.20%	79,710	1.13%
Arab	73,345	1.03%	N	N
West Asian	12,425	0.17%	N	N

Latin American	59,515	0.84%	51,440	0.73%

South Asian	59,505	0.84%	47,590	0.68%

Visible minority	2001	%	1996	%

Chinese	56,830	0.80%	50,360	0.71%

Southeast Asian/Filipino	62,665	0.88%	56,945	0.81%
Southeast Asian	44,115	0.62%	42,130	0.60%
Filipino	18,550	0.26%	14,815	0.21%

Korean	4,410	0.06%	3,930	0.06%

Japanese	2,830	0.04%	3,035	0.04%

Percentages are calculated as a proportion of the total number of respondents (7,125,580)
Only groups with more than 0.02% of respondents are shown

Religion

Quebec is unique among the provinces in its overwhelmingly Roman Catholic population. This is a legacy of colonial times when only Roman Catholics were permitted to settle in New France

New France

New France was the area colonized by France in North America during a period beginning with the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Spain and Great Britain in 1763...

Religion	Denomination	Congregation	Proportion
Catholic Christian Catholic The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...		5,939,795	83.6%
	Roman Catholic	5,930,385	83.23%
	Ukrainian Catholic	3,430	0.05%
Protestant Christian		335,595	4.71%
	Anglican	85,475	1.20%
	United Church of Canada United Church of Canada The United Church of Canada is a Protestant Christian denomination in Canada. It is the largest Protestant church and, after the Roman Catholic Church, the second-largest Christian church in Canada...	52,950	0.74%
	Baptist Baptist Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...	35,455	0.50%
	Jehovah’s Witnesses	29,040	0.41%
	Pentecostal	22,670	0.32%
	Lutheran	9,640	0.14%
	Presbyterian	8,770	0.12%
	Methodist	8,725	0.12%
	Adventist Adventist Adventism is a Christian movement which began in the 19th century, in the context of the Second Great Awakening revival in the United States. The name refers to belief in the imminent Second Coming of Jesus Christ. It was started by William Miller, whose followers became known as Millerites...	6,690	0.09%
	Mormon Mormon The term Mormon most commonly denotes an adherent, practitioner, follower, or constituent of Mormonism, which is the largest branch of the Latter Day Saint movement in restorationist Christianity...	4,440	0.06%
	Unitarian Unitarianism Unitarianism is a Christian theological movement, named for its understanding of God as one person, in direct contrast to Trinitarianism which defines God as three persons coexisting consubstantially as one in being....	1,140	0.02%
	Mission de l'Esprit Saint	765	0.01%
Orthodox Christian		100,375	1.41%
	Greek Orthodox	50,020	0.70%
	Armenian Orthodox	4,935	0.07%
	Russian Orthodox	2,185	0.03%
	Coptic Orthodox	2,010	0.03%
	Antiochian Orthodox	1,050	0.01%
	Ukrainian Orthodox Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada is an Eastern Orthodox Church in Canada, primarily serving Ukrainian Canadians. Its former name was the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church of Canada ...	985	0.01%
	Serbian Orthodox	920	0.01%
Other Christian Christian A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...		56,755	0.80%
Muslim Muslim A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...		108,620	1.52%
Jewish		89,920	1.26%
Buddhist		41,375	0.58%
Hindu Hindu Hindu refers to an identity associated with the philosophical, religious and cultural systems that are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. As used in the Constitution of India, the word "Hindu" is also attributed to all persons professing any Indian religion...		24,530	0.34%
Sikh Sikh A Sikh is a follower of Sikhism. It primarily originated in the 15th century in the Punjab region of South Asia. The term "Sikh" has its origin in Sanskrit term शिष्य , meaning "disciple, student" or शिक्ष , meaning "instruction"...		8,220	0.12%
Other Eastern Religions		3,425	0.05%
	Bahá'í Bahá'í Faith The Bahá'í Faith is a monotheistic religion founded by Bahá'u'lláh in 19th-century Persia, emphasizing the spiritual unity of all humankind. There are an estimated five to six million Bahá'ís around the world in more than 200 countries and territories....	1,155	0.02%
Pagan Paganism Paganism is a blanket term, typically used to refer to non-Abrahamic, indigenous polytheistic religious traditions....		1,330	0.02%
Aboriginal spirituality		740	0.01%
No religious affiliation		413,185	5.80%
	No religion	400,325	5.62%
	Atheist	4,335	0.06%
	Agnostic	1,260	0.02%

Percentages are calculated as a proportion of the total number of respondents (7,125,580 in 2001). Only groups of more than 0.01% are shown.

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