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Table 8
Size and growth of the Inuit population, Canada and regions, 1996 and 2006
Regions 2006 Percentage change from 1996 to 2006
Note:
  1. A CMA, or census metropolitan area, has a total population of at least 100,000 of which 50,000 or more live in the urban core.
Sources: Statistics Canada, censuses of population, 1996 and 2006.
Canada 50,485 26
Total - Inuit Nunaat 39,475 18
Nunatsiavut 2,160 3
Nunavik 9,565 25
Nunavut 24,635 20
Inuvialuit region 3,115 -3
Total - Outside Inuit Nunaat 11,005 62
Rural 2,610 67
Total urban 8,395 60
Census metropolitan area1 4,220 97
Urban non-census metropolitan area 4,175 35