Inuit
 Percentage of population identifying as Inuit by Canadian census division, 2021 census
0% 0.1–0.2% 0.3–0.4% 0.5–1%
1–2% 3–4% 10–30% 50%+
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| Total population | |
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| 155,066 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Canada | 70,540 (2021) |
| Greenland | 50,878 (2024 estimate) |
| Denmark | 17,067 (2023) |
| United States | 16,581 (2010) |
| Languages | |
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| Religion | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
caption. Replace with image_caption.langs. Replace with languages.rels. Replace with religions.related. Replace with related_groups.| Inu- ᐃᓄ- / nuna ᓄᓇ "person" / "land" | |
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| Person | Inuk ᐃᓄᒃ Dual: Inuuk ᐃᓅᒃ |
| People | Inuit ᐃᓄᐃᑦ |
| Language | Inuit languages |
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Inuit (singular: Inuk) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and Subarctic regions of North America and Russia, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon (traditionally), and Alaska. The Inuit languages are part of the Eskaleut languages, also known as Inuit-Yupik-Unangan and as Eskimo–Aleut.
Many individuals who would have historically been referred to as Eskimo, a controversial umbrella term that refers to groups of related Indigenous peoples, find that term offensive or forced upon them in a colonial way; Inuit is now a common autonym for a large sub-group of these people. The word Inuit (varying forms Iñupiat, Inuvialuit, Inughuit, etc.), however, is an ancient self-referential to a group of peoples which includes at most the Iñupiat of Bering Strait coast of Chukotka and northern Alaska, the four broad groups of Inuit in Canada, and the Greenlandic Inuit. This usage has long been employed to the exclusion of other, related groups (e.g. Yupik, Aleut). Therefore, the Aleut (Unangan) and Yupik peoples (Alutiiq/Sugpiaq, Central Yup'ik, Siberian Yupik), who live in Alaska and Siberia, at least at an individual and local level, generally do not self-identify as Inuit.