Data collection reflects changing societal perspectives on gender, StatsCan says
Rob Easton · CBC News · Posted: Apr 27, 2022 11:53 AM MT | Last Updated: April 27
Statistics Canada in its second release of data from the 2021 census has given a comprehensive tally of how many cisgender men and women, transgender and non-binary people live in Canada.
Of the more than 30.5 million Canadians aged 15 and over who were counted on the census, 100,815 of them identify as transgender or non-binary. That’s 0.33 per cent of the total population, or about one in 300 people.
That number is broken up further with 59,460 people as transgender and 41,355 as non-binary.
Generation Z Canadians, aged 17 to 24 years, were seven times more likely to identify as trans or non-binary than those in the oldest generation, aged 76 years and older.
Statistics Canada says this new way of reporting information is important because Canadians are evolving on how they identify themselves, and the census needs to reflect that.
