Table 2 
Confirmed and suspected hate crimes, by type of motivation, Canada, 2019 to 2021 

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Confirmed and suspected hate crimes, by type of motivation, Canada, 2019 to 2021
Confirmed – 2019Suspected – 2019Confirmed – 2019Confirmed – 2020Suspected – 2020Confirmed – 2020Confirmed – 2021Suspected – 2021Confirmed – 2021
  numbernumber % numbernumber % numbernumber %
Total 1,462 489 75 2,037 609 77 2,460 900 73
Race or ethnicity 668 216 76 1,228 391 76 1,229 494 71
Religion 471 142 77 418 112 79 716 168 81
Sexual orientation 184 81 69 204 54 79 286 137 68
Language 18 7 72 28 9 76 25 10 71
Mental/physical disability 2 1 67 4 4 50 12 3 80
Sex or gender 43 13 77 39 10 80 42 20 68
Age 7 1 88 4 1 80 8 4 67
Other similar factor1 41 17 71 86 15 85 61 14 81
Motivation unknown 28 11 72 26 13 67 81 50 62
Note(s):
The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey defines a confirmed hate crime as a criminal violation motivated by hate based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other similar factor. Hate crime counts from the UCR Survey include both confirmed and suspected hate crime incidents. A suspected hate crime is a criminal violation with reasonable suspicion that it is motivated by hate, bias or prejudice, but cannot be proven to be solely motivated by hate. The determination of a violation as a hate crime, and subsequently as a confirmed or suspected hate crime, is made at the discretion of the responding police service. Information in this table reflects data reported by police services covering 99.7% of the population of Canada.
Source(s):
Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (3302).

Table note 1

Includes, for example, occupation or political beliefs.
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