The 1996 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the
Canadian
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''C ...
population. Census day was May 14, 1996. On that day,
Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada (StatCan; ), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. It is headquartered in ...
attempted to count every person in Canada. The total population count of Canada was 28,846,761.
This was a 5.7% increase over the 1991 census of 27,296,859.
The previous census was the
1991 census and the following census was in
2001 census.
Canada by the numbers
A summary of information about Canada.
Population by province
Demographics
Mother tongue
Population by
mother tongue of Canada's official languages:
Aboriginal peoples
Population of
Aboriginal peoples in Canada:
Ethnic origin
Population by
ethnic origin. Only those origins with more than 250,000 respondents are included here. This is based entirely on self reporting.
Visible minorities
Age
Population by age:
See also
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List of population of Canada by years
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Demographics of Canada
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Ethnic groups in Canada
According to the 2021 Canadian census, over 450 "ethnic or cultural origins" were self-reported by Canadians. The country's ten largest self-reported specific ethnic or cultural origins in 2021 were Canadian (accounting for 15.6 percent of t ...
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History of immigration to Canada
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Population and housing censuses by country
This is a list of national population and housing censuses.
Census advisory
The United Nations recommends a census enumeration at least once every ten years, and once every five years for even better data, rather than simply relying on estim ...
References
External links
1996 Census- Statistics Canada's page on the 1996 census.
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Census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
1996 censuses
Censuses in Canada