Aboriginal peoples in Canada in 2006

In 2006, 49% of the total Inuit population in Canada lived in Nunavut, 19% in Nunavik in northern Quebec, 6% in the Inuvialuit region of the Northwest Territories, and 4% in Nunatsiavut in northern Labrador. [...] In the Nunatsiavut region, the population increased by 3% while the Inuit population in the Inuvialuit region of the Northwest Territories declined by 3% over the decade. [...] In 2006, Aboriginal people accounted for 3.8% of the total population of Canada enumerated in the census, up from 3.3% in 2001 and 2.8% in 1996. [...] Eight in 10 Aboriginal people live in Ontario and in the western provinces Eight in every 10 Aboriginal people, just over 944,000, lived either in Ontario or in the four western provinces in 2006. [...] Aboriginal people made up the largest share of the population in the territories and in the Prairie provinces.