OTTAWA, March 13 (Xinhua) -- The number of hate crimes reported by police in Canada rose from 3,355 incidents in 2021 to 3,576 in 2022, a 7 percent increase, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.
This followed two sharp annual increases, resulting in a cumulative rise of 83 percent from 2019 to 2022, said the national statistical agency.
When accounting for population size, the rate of police-reported hate crime in the country rose 5 percent in 2022 to 9.2 incidents per 100,000 population. From 2019 to 2022, the rate of police-reported hate crime rose 77 percent, the agency said.
According to the agency, higher numbers of hate crimes targeting a race or an ethnicity and a sexual orientation accounted for most of the increase in 2022.
Less than one-third of hate crimes were cleared in 2022, Statistics Canada said. ■
