Demographics of Saskatchewan

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Saskatchewan is the middle province of Canada's three prairie provinces. Saskatchewan has an area of 651,900 km² (251,700 mi²) and a population of 985,386 (Saskatchewanians) as of 2006. Most of its population lives in the southern half of the province. The most populous city is Saskatoon with a population of 235,800 (July 1, 2005), followed by the province's capital, Regina with a population of 199,000 as of 2005.

1 Population since 1901
2 Ethnic origins
3 See also
4 References

[edit] Population since 1901

Saskatchewan's population since 1901

Year	Population	Five-year % change	Ten-year % change	Rank among provinces
1901	91,279	n/a	n/a	8
1911	492,432	n/a	439.5	3
1921	757,510	n/a	53.8	3
1931	921,785	n/a	21.7	3
1941	895,992	n/a	-2.8	3
1951	831,728	n/a	-7.2	5
1956	880,665	5.9	n/a	5
1961	925,181	5.1	11.2	5
1966	955,344	3.3	8.5	6
1971	926,242	-3.0	0.1	6
1976	921,325	-0.5	3.6	6
1981	968,313	5.1	4.5	6
1986	1,009,613	4.3	9.6	6
1991	988,928	-2.0	2.1	6
1996	976,615	-1.2	-3.3	6
2001	978,933	0.2	-1.0	6
2006	985,386	0.7	0.9	6

Source: Statistics Canada.^[1]^[2]

[edit] Ethnic origins

Note: The following statistics include a combination of individual and multiple responses from the 2001 Census, and therefore do not add up to 100%.^[3]

German 28.6%
"Canadian" 25.0%
English 24.5%
Scottish 17.9%
Irish 14.5%
Ukrainian 12.6%
French 11.4%
"North American Indian" First Nations 10.6%
Norwegian 6.3%
Polish 5.3%
Métis 4.2%
Dutch (Netherlands) 3.4%
Swedish 3.1%
Russian 2.9%
Hungarian (Magyar) 2.5%
Austrian 1.5%
Welsh 1.4%
American (USA) 1.2%
Romanian 1.1%
Danish 1.0%
Chinese 1.0%

[edit] See also

Demographics of Canada's provinces and territories

[edit] References

^ The history of Saskatchewan's population from Statistics Canada
^ Canada's population. Statistics Canada. Last accessed September 28, 2006.
^ Ethnic origins from Statistics Canada

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