Table 1:

Demographic characteristics of First Nations people, including those living in and outside First Nations communities, and other people in Ontario, 2014/15

Characteristic	First Nations people, no. (%)^*			Other people in Ontario, no. (%)^* n = 13 248 443
Characteristic	Overall^† n = 158 241	Living in First Nations communities^‡ n = 55 311	Living outside First Nations communities^‡ n = 102 889	Other people in Ontario, no. (%)^* n = 13 248 443
Age, yr
Mean ± SD	34.11 ± 19.84	33.07 ± 20.52	34.68 ± 19.45	40.79 ± 22.54
Median (IQR)	32 (18–50)	30 (16–49)	32 (19–50)	41 (22–58)
Age group, yr
≤ 19	44 856 (28.3)	17 965 (32.5)	26 884 (26.1)	2 829 983 (21.4)
20–34	40 855 (25.8)	13 019 (23.5)	27 815 (27.0)	2 635 661 (19.9)
35–49	32 926 (20.8)	10 660 (19.3)	22 258 (21.6)	2 745 274 (20.7)
50–64	27 606 (17.4)	9324 (16.9)	18 279 (17.8)	2 863 509 (21.6)
65–74	8060 (5.1)	2885 (5.2)	5174 (5.0)	1 213 258 (9.2)
≥ 75	3938 (2.5)	1458 (2.6)	2479 (2.4)	960 758 (7.2)
Sex
Female	78 877 (49.8)	26 557 (48.0)	52 299 (50.8)	6 759 006 (51.0)
Male	79 364 (50.2)	28 754 (52.0)	50 590 (49.2)	6 489 437 (49.0)
Rurality
Urban	52 343 (33.1)	2990 (5.4)	49 338 (48.0)	9 693 463 (73.2)
Semiurban	30 268 (19.1)	5527 (10.0)	24 732 (24.0)	2 545 162 (19.2)
Rural	32 134 (20.3)	13 639 (24.7)	18 486 (18.0)	941 948 (7.1)
Remote/missing	43 496 (27.5)	33 155 (59.9)	10 333 (10.0)	67 870 (0.5)
Comorbidity
Low	71 452 (45.2)	30 635 (55.4)	40 782 (39.6)	5 116 120 (38.6)
Medium	57 760 (36.5)	17 421 (31.5)	40 334 (39.2)	5 605 860 (42.3)
High	29 029 (18.3)	7255 (13.1)	21 773 (21.2)	2 526 463 (19.1)

Note: IQR = interquartile range, SD = standard deviation.
↵* Except where noted otherwise.
↵† This includes all First Nations people included in the Indian Register, regardless of whether we could determine whether they lived within a First Nations community.
↵‡ We were unable to determine location of residence for 41 people.