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Ethnic origin and visible minorities
Release no. 7: April 2, 2008
- More than 200 different ethnic origins were reported in the 2006 Census.
- An estimated 5,068,100 individuals were members of the visible minority population. They represented 16.2% of the total population in 2006, up from 13.4% in 2001.