In 2018, there were 37,000 Indigenous-owned businesses among the 2,537,000 Canadian-controlled private corporations and unincorporated businesses in Canada for which the sex, Indigenous identity and age of the owners, as well as the province and employment size, can be defined. Similar to businesses owned by non-Indigenous individuals (66.6%), the majority of Indigenous-owned businesses (67.8%) did not have employees. Among Indigenous-owned businesses, 94.1% were controlled by First Nations people or Métis, while Inuit owned 1.6% of them. The remaining 4.3% were owned by individuals with other Indigenous identities.
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