New data from Statistics Canada’s National Household Survey shows that 1,400,685 people had an aboriginal identity in 2011, or 4.3% of the total Canadian population. The aboriginal population increased by 232,385 people, or 20.1% between 2006 and 2011, compared with 5.2% for the rest of Canada’s non-aboriginal population. Projections show that the aboriginal identity population in Canada could be 2.2 million by 2031.