TIL despite making up only 8% of the population of Saskatchewan, aboriginals make up 76% of the inmate population.

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While slower population growth and an aging population characterize Canada's current and projected demographic trends, this pattern is not true for Canada's Aboriginal population.

The Aboriginal population has been experiencing its own recent baby boom, proportionally, quite similar in dimensions to what the non-Aboriginal population experienced just after WW II. This baby boom is occurring just when the first of the baby boomers born to the non-Aboriginal population begin to reach late middle age.

As a consequence there continues to be both a higher rate of population growth, and the average age of the Aboriginal population remains much younger than the non-Aboriginal population.

The 1996 prison survey also found that the population of adult inmates was significantly younger than the Canadian population as a whole: the median age of Canadians in 1996 was 41 years whereas the median age of adult inmates was 32 years; the median age of inmates in provincial prisons was 31 years, and in federal penitentiaries it was 34 years.

Canada's Aboriginal population is still in the midst of its own baby boom, at least among the Registered Indian population that resides on reserve.

The proportion of young people aged 15-24 was also greater among the Aboriginal population than in the total population.

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