Yukon is the westernmost of Canada's three northern territories. Its capital is Whitehorse. People from Yukon are known as Yukoners (}
}}: Yukonnais).
Estimated population of Yukon: 30,989 (July 2007 est[1])
Percentage of Canadian population : 0.1%
Population growth rate for 2007: -0.7%
Contents
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Population of Yukon since 1901 1
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Major communities 2
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Visible minorities and Aboriginals 3
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Languages 4
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Migration 5
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Immigration 5.1
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Internal migration 5.2
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See also 6
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References 7
Population of Yukon since 1901
Year
|
Population
|
Five-year
% change
|
Ten-year
% change
|
Rank among provinces
and territories
|
1901
|
27,219
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
10
|
1911
|
8,512
|
n/a
|
-68.7
|
10
|
1921
|
4,157
|
n/a
|
-51.1
|
10
|
1931
|
4,230
|
n/a
|
1.8
|
11
|
1941
|
4,914
|
n/a
|
16.2
|
11
|
1951
|
9,096
|
n/a
|
85.1
|
12
|
1956
|
12,190
|
34.0
|
n/a
|
12
|
1961
|
14,628
|
20.0
|
60.8
|
12
|
1966
|
14,382
|
-1.7
|
18.0
|
12
|
1971
|
18,390
|
27.9
|
25.7
|
12
|
1976
|
21,835
|
18.7
|
51.8
|
12
|
1981
|
23,150
|
6.0
|
25.9
|
12
|
1986
|
23,505
|
1.5
|
7.6
|
12
|
1991
|
27,797
|
18.3
|
20.1
|
12
|
1996
|
30,766
|
10.7
|
30.9
|
12
|
2001
|
28,674
|
-6.8
|
3.2
|
12
|
2006
|
30,372
|
5.9
|
-1.3
|
12
|
2011
|
33,897
|
11.6
|
18.2
|
12
|
Source: Statistics Canada [2][3][4]
Major communities
Visible minorities and Aboriginals
Yukon to Canada Comparison[5]
|
|
Total population
|
Total aboriginal
|
First Nation
|
Métis
|
Inuit
|
Multiple
|
Other
|
Percentage of total
|
Yukon
|
Total
|
30,650
|
6,175
|
5,330
|
550
|
95
|
30
|
170
|
20.1%
|
|
Male
|
15,810
|
2,965
|
2,850
|
260
|
40
|
10
|
80
|
18.7%
|
|
Female
|
14,840
|
3,210
|
2,750
|
290
|
55
|
20
|
90
|
21.6%
|
Canada
|
Total
|
28,528,125
|
799,010
|
529,035
|
204,115
|
40,225
|
6,415
|
19,215
|
2.8%
|
|
Male
|
14,046,880
|
390,870
|
258,330
|
101,435
|
20,180
|
3,175
|
7,750
|
2.8%
|
|
Female
|
14,481,245
|
408,140
|
270,700
|
102,685
|
20,040
|
3,240
|
11,465
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2.8%
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Communities in order of percent of aboriginal population[5]
Rk
|
Name
|
Total pop.
|
Aboriginal pop.
|
Percent
|
Rk
|
Name
|
Total pop.
|
Aboriginal pop.
|
Percent
|
1
|
Upper Liard
|
110
|
110
|
100%
|
12
|
Beaver Creek
|
w130
|
60
|
46.1%
|
2
|
Two Mile Village
|
100
|
100
|
100%
|
13
|
Haines Junction
|
575
|
230
|
40.0%
|
3
|
Two and 1/2 Mile Village
|
40
|
40
|
100%
|
14
|
Ibex Valley
|
320
|
90
|
28.2%
|
4
|
Old Crow
|
280
|
250
|
89.3%
|
15
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Watson Lake
|
995
|
220
|
27.1%
|
5
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Pelly Crossing
|
240
|
205
|
84.5%
|
16
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Dawson City
|
1280
|
345
|
26.9%
|
6
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Ross River
|
350
|
275
|
78.6%
|
17
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Tagish
|
165
|
40
|
26.7%
|
7
|
Carcross
|
275
|
185
|
67.3%
|
18
|
"Unorganised"
|
1855
|
345
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18.6%
|
8
|
Burwash Landing
|
60
|
40
|
66.7%
|
19
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Whitehorse
|
20,960
|
2,775
|
13.2%
|
9
|
Teslin
|
305
|
195
|
63.9%
|
20
|
Mount Lorne
|
400
|
35
|
8.75%
|
10
|
Carmacks
|
465
|
295
|
63.4%
|
21
|
Faro
|
1260
|
80
|
6.34%
|
11
|
Mayo
|
320
|
200
|
62.5%
|
22
|
Stewart Crossing
|
45
|
0
|
0%
|
Visible minority and Aboriginal population (Canada 2006 Census)
|
Population group
|
Population
|
% of total population
|
White
|
21,395
|
7001709000000000000♠70.9%
|
Visible minority group
Source:[6]
|
South Asian
|
195
|
6999600000000000000♠0.6%
|
Chinese
|
325
|
7000110000000000000♠1.1%
|
Black
|
125
|
6999400000000000000♠0.4%
|
Filipino
|
210
|
6999700000000000000♠0.7%
|
Latin American
|
100
|
6999300000000000000♠0.3%
|
Arab
|
20
|
6999100000000000000♠0.1%
|
Southeast Asian
|
145
|
6999500000000000000♠0.5%
|
West Asian
|
10
|
5000000000000000000♠0%
|
Korean
|
10
|
5000000000000000000♠0%
|
Japanese
|
40
|
6999100000000000000♠0.1%
|
Visible minority, n.i.e.
|
15
|
5000000000000000000♠0%
|
Multiple visible minority
|
40
|
6999100000000000000♠0.1%
|
Total visible minority population
|
1,220
|
7000400000000000000♠4%
|
Aboriginal group
Source:[7]
|
First Nations
|
6,280
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7001208000000000000♠20.8%
|
Métis
|
800
|
7000260000000000000♠2.6%
|
Inuit
|
255
|
6999800000000000000♠0.8%
|
Aboriginal, n.i.e.
|
190
|
6999600000000000000♠0.6%
|
Multiple Aboriginal identity
|
55
|
6999200000000000000♠0.2%
|
Total Aboriginal population
|
7,580
|
7001251000000000000♠25.1%
|
Total population
|
30,195
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100%
|
Languages
The
2006 Canadian census showed a population of 30,372.
Of the 29,940 singular responses to the census question concerning 'mother tongue' the most commonly reported languages were:
1.
|
English
|
25,655
|
85.69%
|
2.
|
French
|
1,105
|
3.69%
|
3.
|
German
|
775
|
2.59%
|
4.
|
Athapaskan languages
|
650
|
2.17%
|
|
Gwich'in
|
75
|
0.25%
|
|
North Slavey
|
30
|
0.10%
|
5.
|
Chinese
|
260
|
0.87%
|
|
Cantonese
|
85
|
0.28%
|
|
Mandarin
|
70
|
0.23%
|
6.
|
Malayo-Polynesian languages
|
165
|
0.55%
|
|
Tagalog
|
145
|
0.48%
|
7.
|
Dutch
|
140
|
0.47%
|
8.
|
Spanish
|
130
|
0.43%
|
9.
|
Vietnamese
|
105
|
0.35%
|
10.
|
Yugoslavian languages
|
95
|
0.32%
|
|
Slovenian
|
45
|
0.15%
|
11=
|
Hungarian
|
80
|
0.27%
|
11=
|
Panjabi
|
80
|
0.27%
|
13.
|
Tlingit
|
70
|
0.23%
|
14=
|
Algonquian languages
|
55
|
0.18%
|
|
Cree
|
50
|
0.17%
|
14=
|
Russian
|
55
|
0.18%
|
14=
|
Inuktitut
|
55
|
0.18%
|
There were also about 40 single-language responses for Ukrainian; 30 each for Czech and the Scandinavian languages; and about 25 single-language responses each for Italian and Japanese. In addition, there were also 130 responses of both English and a 'non-official language'; 10 of both French and a 'non-official language'; 110 of both English and French; and about 175 people who either did not respond to the question, or reported multiple non-official languages, or else gave some other unenumerated response. The Yukon's official languages are shown in bold. (Figures shown are for the number of single language responses and the percentage of total single-language responses.)[8]
Migration
Immigration
The 2006 Canadian census counted a total of 3,010 immigrants living in Yukon.
The most commonly reported countries of birth for these immigrants were:
[9]
|
|
|
1.
|
United States
|
600
|
2.
|
United Kingdom
|
555
|
3.
|
Germany
|
405
|
4.
|
Philippines
|
160
|
5.
|
Switzerland
|
125
|
6.
|
Netherlands
|
110
|
7.
|
Vietnam
|
90
|
8.
|
China
|
85
|
9.
|
former Yugoslavia
|
80
|
10.
|
France
|
75
|
11.
|
India
|
70
|
12.
|
Hungary
|
50
|
There were also about forty immigrants from Austria and New Zealand, thirty from the Czech Republic and South Africa, and about twenty-five each from Belgium, Ireland and Poland.
Internal migration
A total of 7,400 people moved to Yukon from other parts of Canada between 1996 and 2006 while 10,505 people moved in the opposite direction. These movements resulted in a net influx of 230 from the Northwest Territories; and a net outmigration of 2,505 to Alberta, 915 to British Columbia and 115 to New Brunswick. There was a net influx of 120 francophones from Quebec during this period. (All net inter-provincial and official minority movements of more than 100 persons are given.)[10][11]
See also
YT
References
-- Module:Hatnote -- -- -- -- This module produces hatnote links and links to related articles. It -- -- implements the and meta-templates and includes -- -- helper functions for other Lua hatnote modules. --
local libraryUtil = require('libraryUtil') local checkType = libraryUtil.checkType local mArguments -- lazily initialise Module:Arguments local yesno -- lazily initialise Module:Yesno
local p = {}
-- Helper functions
local function getArgs(frame) -- Fetches the arguments from the parent frame. Whitespace is trimmed and -- blanks are removed. mArguments = require('Module:Arguments') return mArguments.getArgs(frame, {parentOnly = true}) end
local function removeInitialColon(s) -- Removes the initial colon from a string, if present. return s:match('^:?(.*)') end
function p.findNamespaceId(link, removeColon) -- Finds the namespace id (namespace number) of a link or a pagename. This -- function will not work if the link is enclosed in double brackets. Colons -- are trimmed from the start of the link by default. To skip colon -- trimming, set the removeColon parameter to true. checkType('findNamespaceId', 1, link, 'string') checkType('findNamespaceId', 2, removeColon, 'boolean', true) if removeColon ~= false then link = removeInitialColon(link) end local namespace = link:match('^(.-):') if namespace then local nsTable = mw.site.namespaces[namespace] if nsTable then return nsTable.id end end return 0 end
function p.formatPages(...) -- Formats a list of pages using formatLink and returns it as an array. Nil -- values are not allowed. local pages = {...} local ret = {} for i, page in ipairs(pages) do ret[i] = p._formatLink(page) end return ret end
function p.formatPageTables(...) -- Takes a list of page/display tables and returns it as a list of -- formatted links. Nil values are not allowed. local pages = {...} local links = {} for i, t in ipairs(pages) do checkType('formatPageTables', i, t, 'table') local link = t[1] local display = t[2] links[i] = p._formatLink(link, display) end return links end
function p.makeWikitextError(msg, helpLink, addTrackingCategory) -- Formats an error message to be returned to wikitext. If -- addTrackingCategory is not false after being returned from -- Module:Yesno, and if we are not on a talk page, a tracking category -- is added. checkType('makeWikitextError', 1, msg, 'string') checkType('makeWikitextError', 2, helpLink, 'string', true) yesno = require('Module:Yesno') local title = mw.title.getCurrentTitle() -- Make the help link text. local helpText if helpLink then helpText = ' (help)' else helpText = end -- Make the category text. local category if not title.isTalkPage and yesno(addTrackingCategory) ~= false then category = 'Hatnote templates with errors' category = string.format( '%s:%s', mw.site.namespaces[14].name, category ) else category = end return string.format( '%s', msg, helpText, category ) end
-- Format link -- -- Makes a wikilink from the given link and display values. Links are escaped -- with colons if necessary, and links to sections are detected and displayed -- with " § " as a separator rather than the standard MediaWiki "#". Used in -- the template.
function p.formatLink(frame) local args = getArgs(frame) local link = args[1] local display = args[2] if not link then return p.makeWikitextError( 'no link specified', 'Template:Format hatnote link#Errors', args.category ) end return p._formatLink(link, display) end
function p._formatLink(link, display) -- Find whether we need to use the colon trick or not. We need to use the -- colon trick for categories and files, as otherwise category links -- categorise the page and file links display the file. checkType('_formatLink', 1, link, 'string') checkType('_formatLink', 2, display, 'string', true) link = removeInitialColon(link) local namespace = p.findNamespaceId(link, false) local colon if namespace == 6 or namespace == 14 then colon = ':' else colon = end -- Find whether a faux display value has been added with the | magic -- word. if not display then local prePipe, postPipe = link:match('^(.-)|(.*)$') link = prePipe or link display = postPipe end -- Find the display value. if not display then local page, section = link:match('^(.-)#(.*)$') if page then display = page .. ' § ' .. section end end -- Assemble the link. if display then return string.format('%s', colon, link, display) else return string.format('%s%s', colon, link) end end
-- Hatnote -- -- Produces standard hatnote text. Implements the template.
function p.hatnote(frame) local args = getArgs(frame) local s = args[1] local options = {} if not s then return p.makeWikitextError( 'no text specified', 'Template:Hatnote#Errors', args.category ) end options.extraclasses = args.extraclasses options.selfref = args.selfref return p._hatnote(s, options) end
function p._hatnote(s, options) checkType('_hatnote', 1, s, 'string') checkType('_hatnote', 2, options, 'table', true) local classes = {'hatnote'} local extraclasses = options.extraclasses local selfref = options.selfref if type(extraclasses) == 'string' then classes[#classes + 1] = extraclasses end if selfref then classes[#classes + 1] = 'selfref' end return string.format( '
%s
', table.concat(classes, ' '), s )
end
return p-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Module:Hatnote -- -- -- -- This module produces hatnote links and links to related articles. It -- -- implements the and meta-templates and includes -- -- helper functions for other Lua hatnote modules. --
local libraryUtil = require('libraryUtil') local checkType = libraryUtil.checkType local mArguments -- lazily initialise Module:Arguments local yesno -- lazily initialise Module:Yesno
local p = {}
-- Helper functions
local function getArgs(frame) -- Fetches the arguments from the parent frame. Whitespace is trimmed and -- blanks are removed. mArguments = require('Module:Arguments') return mArguments.getArgs(frame, {parentOnly = true}) end
local function removeInitialColon(s) -- Removes the initial colon from a string, if present. return s:match('^:?(.*)') end
function p.findNamespaceId(link, removeColon) -- Finds the namespace id (namespace number) of a link or a pagename. This -- function will not work if the link is enclosed in double brackets. Colons -- are trimmed from the start of the link by default. To skip colon -- trimming, set the removeColon parameter to true. checkType('findNamespaceId', 1, link, 'string') checkType('findNamespaceId', 2, removeColon, 'boolean', true) if removeColon ~= false then link = removeInitialColon(link) end local namespace = link:match('^(.-):') if namespace then local nsTable = mw.site.namespaces[namespace] if nsTable then return nsTable.id end end return 0 end
function p.formatPages(...) -- Formats a list of pages using formatLink and returns it as an array. Nil -- values are not allowed. local pages = {...} local ret = {} for i, page in ipairs(pages) do ret[i] = p._formatLink(page) end return ret end
function p.formatPageTables(...) -- Takes a list of page/display tables and returns it as a list of -- formatted links. Nil values are not allowed. local pages = {...} local links = {} for i, t in ipairs(pages) do checkType('formatPageTables', i, t, 'table') local link = t[1] local display = t[2] links[i] = p._formatLink(link, display) end return links end
function p.makeWikitextError(msg, helpLink, addTrackingCategory) -- Formats an error message to be returned to wikitext. If -- addTrackingCategory is not false after being returned from -- Module:Yesno, and if we are not on a talk page, a tracking category -- is added. checkType('makeWikitextError', 1, msg, 'string') checkType('makeWikitextError', 2, helpLink, 'string', true) yesno = require('Module:Yesno') local title = mw.title.getCurrentTitle() -- Make the help link text. local helpText if helpLink then helpText = ' (help)' else helpText = end -- Make the category text. local category if not title.isTalkPage and yesno(addTrackingCategory) ~= false then category = 'Hatnote templates with errors' category = string.format( '%s:%s', mw.site.namespaces[14].name, category ) else category = end return string.format( '%s', msg, helpText, category ) end
-- Format link -- -- Makes a wikilink from the given link and display values. Links are escaped -- with colons if necessary, and links to sections are detected and displayed -- with " § " as a separator rather than the standard MediaWiki "#". Used in -- the template.
function p.formatLink(frame) local args = getArgs(frame) local link = args[1] local display = args[2] if not link then return p.makeWikitextError( 'no link specified', 'Template:Format hatnote link#Errors', args.category ) end return p._formatLink(link, display) end
function p._formatLink(link, display) -- Find whether we need to use the colon trick or not. We need to use the -- colon trick for categories and files, as otherwise category links -- categorise the page and file links display the file. checkType('_formatLink', 1, link, 'string') checkType('_formatLink', 2, display, 'string', true) link = removeInitialColon(link) local namespace = p.findNamespaceId(link, false) local colon if namespace == 6 or namespace == 14 then colon = ':' else colon = end -- Find whether a faux display value has been added with the | magic -- word. if not display then local prePipe, postPipe = link:match('^(.-)|(.*)$') link = prePipe or link display = postPipe end -- Find the display value. if not display then local page, section = link:match('^(.-)#(.*)$') if page then display = page .. ' § ' .. section end end -- Assemble the link. if display then return string.format('%s', colon, link, display) else return string.format('%s%s', colon, link) end end
-- Hatnote -- -- Produces standard hatnote text. Implements the template.
function p.hatnote(frame) local args = getArgs(frame) local s = args[1] local options = {} if not s then return p.makeWikitextError( 'no text specified', 'Template:Hatnote#Errors', args.category ) end options.extraclasses = args.extraclasses options.selfref = args.selfref return p._hatnote(s, options) end
function p._hatnote(s, options) checkType('_hatnote', 1, s, 'string') checkType('_hatnote', 2, options, 'table', true) local classes = {'hatnote'} local extraclasses = options.extraclasses local selfref = options.selfref if type(extraclasses) == 'string' then classes[#classes + 1] = extraclasses end if selfref then classes[#classes + 1] = 'selfref' end return string.format( '
%s
', table.concat(classes, ' '), s )
end
return p
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^ http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/070927/d070927a.htm Statcan Annual demographic estimates
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^ Population urban and rural, by province and territory. Statistics Canada. Last accessed February 13, 2007.
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^ Canada's population. Statistics Canada. Last accessed September 28, 2006.
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^
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^ a b http://www.eco.gov.yk.ca/stats/census/census96/aboriginal.pdf Aboriginal Data - Census '96
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^ [1], Community Profiles from the 2006 Census, Statistics Canada - Province/Territory
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^ [2], Aboriginal Population Profile from the 2006 Census, Statistics Canada - Province/Territory
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^ Detailed Mother Tongue (186), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age Groups (17A) and Sex (3) (2006 Census)
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^ Immigrant Status and Period of Immigration (8) and Place of Birth (261) (2006 Census)
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^ Province or Territory of Residence 5 Years Ago (14), Mother Tongue (8), Age Groups (16) and Sex (3) (2006 Census)
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^ Province or Territory of Residence 5 Years Ago (14), Mother Tongue (8), Age Groups (16) and Sex (3) (2001 census)
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