Over the past fifty years, the proportion of Quebecers speaking both English and French has increased steadily, from 27.6 percent in 1971 to almost half the population (46.4 percent) in 2021. The rate of English-French bilingualism, on the other hand, has declined in the rest of the country: outside Quebec, just over ten percent of people were bilingual in English and French in 2001, compared to 9.5 percent two decades later.
Share of people speaking English and French in Quebec and Canada between 1971 and 2021
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Plus d’une langue à son arc : Le taux de bilinguisme français-anglais augmente au Québec et diminue à l’extérieur du Québec, 1971 to 2021. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
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