Nunavut by the numbers

• In the last national census in 1996, the region that was to become Nunavut reported a population of 24,730.

• Of that number, 52.2 per cent were male, 47.8 per cent were female.

• Fully 47.6 per cent of residents were under the age of 20.

• Only 30 Nunavummuit — .1 per cent — were over the age of 85.

• Inuit made up 83.6 per cent of the population. Most of the non-Inuit were Caucasians, though Nunavut reported 45 blacks, 35 Filipinos, 30 Chinese, 15 South Asians, 15 Arabs or West Asians and 10 Japanese.

• Only 6.9 per cent of people over age 15 had a university education. Nineteen per cent had less than a grade 9 education.

• Francophones made up 1.6 per cent of the population.

• Of residents over 15 years of age, 33.7 per cent were in the labour force.

• The average individual income of residents was $24,193 per year.

• Of the 5,265 families in Nunavut, 18.5 per cent were headed by single parents.

• 73.7 per cent of Nunavummuit said the first language they learned was Inuktitut, but only 63.6 per cent said they still speak Inuktitut at home.

• In Canada as a whole, 41,000 people listed themselves as Inuit. Of those, 27,000 said that Inuktitut was their mother tongue.