Toronto's racial diversity facts:
• 43 per cent of Toronto's population (1,051,125 people) reported themselves as being part of a visible minority, up from 37 per cent (882,330) in 1996.
• the top four visible minority groups in Toronto were:
? Chinese at 259,710 or 10.6 per cent of our population
? South Asian at 253,920 or 10.3 per cent
? Black at 204,075 or 8.3 per cent
? Filipino at 86,460 or 3.5 per cent
• 49 per cent of Toronto's population was born outside of Canada, up from 48 per cent in 1996
• new immigrants to Toronto since 1991 number 516,635, representing 21 per cent of our population.
• fully one in five Toronto residents arrived in this country during the 1990s
• one in four children between 5 and 16 in the City of Toronto are new immigrants having arrived between 1991 and 2001
• while the City of Toronto had 48.7 per cent of the GTA's population in 2001, we were home to:
? 57.8 per cent of all GTA immigrants (1,214,625)
? 64.4 per cent of all new immigrants that arrived in the GTA during the 1990s (516,635)
? 60.4 per cent of all GTA residents identified as belonging to a visible minority (1,051,125)
• Toronto has 79 ethnic publications
