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More reasonably, 'natural' growth due to new births (less deaths) among the 1996 Aboriginal The Aboriginal identity population com- iden-tity population accounted for about 80,000 pared to the total population of each province to 90,000 of the increase of 177,295 in the is shown in Table 2. Ontario and all provinces Aboriginal population. [...] As can be seen, most of the Aboriginal of the total population in the Territories - 22.9 identity population (62.2 percent) lives in the four percent in Yukon and 65.0 percent in Nunavut western provinces. [...] In fact, the growth in Figures 4 and 5 show the percentage the proportion of the Aboriginal identity popu- distribution of the Aboriginal identity population lation living in large urban centres is quite small, in. [...] As might be expected, the distribution of The demographics of the working age area of residence of the working age Aboriginal population are otherwise more or less the same identity population is close to that of the Abori- as those for the total Aboriginal identity popu- ginal identity population as a whole. [...] Fully 62 percent of the Aboriginal of the Aboriginal identity population by identity population lives in the west and only 1.1 percentage points between 1996 the north, with the Prairie provinces hav- (27.6 percent of the total) and 2001 (28.7 ing the largest Aboriginal identity pop- percent).