Table 4
Age groups of the female population, by visible minority group, Canada, 2006
| Visible minority groups | Age groups | Median age |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total age | Less than 15 | 15 to 24 | 25 to 54 | 55 to 64 | 65 and older | ||
| percentage | |||||||
| Total – Women | 100.0 | 17.1 | 13.0 | 44.1 | 11.7 | 14.2 | 40.0 |
| Visible minority women | 100.0 | 21.6 | 14.8 | 47.7 | 8.2 | 7.8 | 33.3 |
| Chinese | 100.0 | 16.9 | 14.2 | 48.7 | 9.0 | 11.1 | 37.8 |
| South Asian | 100.0 | 23.5 | 14.3 | 46.5 | 8.4 | 7.4 | 31.5 |
| Black | 100.0 | 26.8 | 15.9 | 42.9 | 7.8 | 6.5 | 29.6 |
| Filipino | 100.0 | 18.3 | 11.3 | 53.5 | 9.8 | 7.1 | 37.3 |
| Latin American | 100.0 | 19.2 | 16.5 | 51.9 | 7.3 | 5.0 | 32.6 |
| Southeast Asian | 100.0 | 21.6 | 15.5 | 50.0 | 6.2 | 6.6 | 32.7 |
| Arab | 100.0 | 27.9 | 15.8 | 46.2 | 5.3 | 4.8 | 28.3 |
| West Asian | 100.0 | 19.9 | 18.4 | 49.3 | 7.1 | 5.2 | 31.8 |
| Korean | 100.0 | 17.1 | 18.9 | 50.9 | 7.3 | 5.8 | 34.1 |
| Japanese | 100.0 | 15.8 | 12.1 | 47.7 | 10.4 | 14.0 | 36.7 |
| Other visible minority | 100.0 | 18.7 | 15.7 | 49.1 | 9.0 | 7.4 | 34.2 |
| Multiple visible minority | 100.0 | 32.8 | 16.5 | 39.4 | 6.4 | 4.8 | 25.4 |
| Non-visible minority women | 100.0 | 16.2 | 12.6 | 43.4 | 12.4 | 15.5 | 41.5 |
| Total – Men | 100.0 | 18.6 | 14.0 | 43.8 | 11.7 | 11.8 | 38.3 |
| Visible minority men | 100.0 | 23.7 | 16.2 | 45.2 | 8.1 | 6.8 | 31.8 |
| Non-visible minority men | 100.0 | 17.7 | 13.6 | 43.6 | 12.4 | 12.8 | 39.8 |
| Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2006. | |||||||
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