Nunavik Statistics Program

A new Nunivaat Analytics Bulletin has been added to the databank. Entitled "Housing needs in Nunavik: Portrait and Trends", the Bulletin presents a portrait of the housing needs and challenges in Nunavik, providing an up-to-date synthesis of the data and available knowledge on housing and living accommodations in the region. 

In the early 2000s, researchers at Laval University produced an exhaustive study aimed at drawing up an inventory of abandoned mining exploration sites in Nunavik, i.e. sites containing products that could represent a danger to the environment and human health, in order to lay the foundations for a priority clean-up operation. The inventory showed that there were some 595 abandoned sites at the time, 379 of which were known to the region's population. The research also revealed that two-thirds of all sites were located in the Labrador Trough. This research resulted in several documents. They can be consulted in the data section by selecting Mining Exploration Sites in the indicators drop-down menu.

The Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation du Québec (MAMH) released the 2024 Population Decree for the Northern villages. These data are the reference for the application of laws and regulations as well as for the management of government programs. They can be consulted here.

After the villages population profiles, the Nunavik population profiles are now available on our site. The data they contain are taken from the 2021 Census. They are grouped by theme: labor market, housing, education, income, population by age and sex, etc. These profiles can be viewed in the Data section by selecting Nunavik in the Geography menu and 2021 in the years menu.