Table 4 
Persons living below the poverty line1, by selected demographic groups, Canada, 2019 to 2021 

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Persons living below the poverty line, by selected demographic groups, Canada, 2019 to 2021
  2019 2020 2021 2019 2020 2021
  thousandsthousandsthousands % of population% of population% of population
All persons 3,793 2,357 2,762 10.3 6.4 7.4
Visible minority population .. 802 1,033 .. 8.0 9.5
South Asian .. 192 194 .. 7.5 7.0
Chinese .. 185 247 .. 9.6 11.7
Black .. 111 179 .. 7.5 11.5
Filipino .. 37 33 .. 3.6 2.9
Arab .. 79 114 .. 10.0 12.8
Latin American .. 57 41 .. 8.7 6.8
Southeast Asian .. 56 54 .. 10.3 9.1
Other visible minority .. 84 173 .. 8.0 14.4
Not a visible minority .. 1,555 1,728 .. 5.8 6.5
Persons 16 years and over 3,177 2,054 2,363 10.4 6.7 7.6
Indigenous people 133 89 102 18.6 11.8 13.9
First Nations living off-reserve2 80 54 55 22.8 14.2 17.2
Métis3 47 28 42 13.6 8.1 10.5
Inuit F F F F F F
Recent immigrants4 412 219 279 17.2 8.6 10.3
Persons with a disability5 1,165 761 979 13.7 8.5 10.6
..
not available for a specific reference period
F
too unreliable to be published
Source(s):
Tables 11-10-0093-01 and 11-10-0090-01.

Table note 1

Based on the Market Basket Measure (2018 base).

Table note 2

Persons who identified as First Nations only (those who reported multiple identities are excluded).

Table note 3

Persons who identified as Métis only (those who reported multiple identities are excluded).

Table note 4

Who arrived in Canada in the last 10 years.

Table note 5

Disability-related estimates are produced using a different weighting methodology and comparisons with estimates produced from the entire survey should be made with caution.
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