Table 4 
Persons living below the poverty line1, by selected demographic group, Canada, 2019 to 2022 

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Persons living below the poverty line, by selected demographic group, Canada, 2019 to 2022
  2019 2020 2021 2022 2019 2020 2021 2022
  thousandsthousandsthousandsthousands % of population% of population% of population% of population
All persons 3,793 2,357 2,762 3,772 10.3 6.4 7.4 9.9
Visible minority population .. 802 1,033 1,437 .. 8.0 9.5 13.0
South Asian .. 192 194 346 .. 7.5 7.0 11.5
Chinese .. 185 247 273 .. 9.6 11.7 15.6
Black .. 111 179 233 .. 7.5 11.5 13.9
Filipino .. 37 33 77 .. 3.6 2.9 6.2
Arab .. 79 114 157 .. 10.0 12.8 18.7
Latin American .. 57 41 85 .. 8.7 6.8 11.3
Southeast Asian .. 56 54 73 .. 10.3 9.1 12.3
Other visible minority .. 84 173 193 .. 8.0 14.4 16.2
Not a visible minority .. 1,555 1,728 2,335 .. 5.8 6.5 8.7
Persons 15 years and over2 3,177 2,054 2,363 3,164 10.4 6.7 7.6 9.9
Indigenous people 133 89 102 167 18.6 11.8 13.9 17.5
First Nations living off-reserve3 80 54 55 112 22.9 14.2 17.2 22.1
Métis4 47 28 42 50 13.6 8.1 10.5 11.9
Inuit F F F F F F F F
Recent immigrants5 412 219 279 373 17.2 8.6 10.3 14.0
Very recent immigrants6 288 148 179 239 21.8 11.2 12 16.4
Persons with a disability7 1,165 761 979 1,110 13.7 8.5 10.6 12.3
..
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 16 years and over for years prior to 2022.

Table note 3

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

Table note 4

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

Table note 5

Who arrived in Canada in the previous 10 years.

Table note 6

Who arrived in Canada in the previous 5 years.

Table note 7

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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