Chinese and South Asians are the largest visible minority groups

The proportion of persons belonging to a visible minority group quadrupled between 1981 and 2011, from 4.7% to 19.1%. According to the reference scenario for the most recent projections of the diversity of the Canadian population, this proportion could reach 30.6% in 2031.
According to the 2011 National Housing Survey, the number of South Asians (1.6 million) exceeded the number of Chinese (1.3 million), making this the largest visible minority group in Canada. Blacks ranked as the third largest group with a population of almost one million.
According to the reference scenario for the projections of the diversity of the Canadian population, South Asians and Chinese could continue to be the two largest visible minority groups in 2031, with populations of 3.6 million and 2.7 million, respectively.

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