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Canada's 2021 Census Confirms the Second-Largest Sikh Population Outside India

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Canada's 2021 census, whose religion figures Statistics Canada released on 26 October 2022, counted 771,790 Sikhs, 2.12 percent of the national population, a rise of 69.6 percent from 454,965 in 2011. The count made Canada home to the world's largest national Sikh proportion and, after India itself, the world's second largest Sikh population by raw numbers.

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Start YearSourced to the subject's own account
from 2021 1
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Established 1
Sourced to the subject's own accountEstablished marks the Canadian state's own census count of an already well established community, not a claim about the timing or manner of Sikh settlement in Canada, which the map's own 1897 and 1914 entries already record.
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Canada, Countries
Source Sikhs In Canada (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

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Sikhism, Religions

Closes a two year gap since 2019's opening of the Kartarpur Corridor, moving the map's Canadian thread from Sikh migrants first reaching Canada in 1897 to the state's own count of what that migration, and the century of arrivals since, had become.

Source Sikhs In Canada (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
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1. Sikhs In Canada (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors, Wikipedia, 2026View the Source
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