Canada Population

In Canada’s larger urban areas, traffic congestion has become a fact of life. (Black Press file photo)

QUIZ: How much do you know about Canada’s growing population?

Today, there are more than 41 million people who live in Canada

 

Statistics Canada says the country posted its highest annual population growth rate in more than six decades last year. People walk along the boardwalk in Toronto’s east end on Sunday, April 4 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

Canada’s population growing faster than any time in the past 65 years

2023 population growth of 3.2% was the highest recorded since 1957

 

Statistics Canada says there are now more millennials than baby boomers in the country, ending the 65-year rein of the post-Second World War generation as the largest in the population.People walk in an overhead pedestrian crossing in Toronto on Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston

Millennials surge past boomers in Canada’s population rolls for first time

Boomers have held a 65-year reign as the nation’s biggest cohort that ended last year

 

Canada’s population grew by more than 430,000 during the third quarter, marking the fastest pace of population growth in any quarter since 1957. Children stand to sing O Canada after being sworn-in as Canadian citizens at the Halifax Citadel in Halifax on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese

Canada’s population growth in the last quarter fastest in history

Statistics Canada reports record population growth in Q3, population grows by 430,000

Canada’s population grew by more than 430,000 during the third quarter, marking the fastest pace of population growth in any quarter since 1957. Children stand to sing O Canada after being sworn-in as Canadian citizens at the Halifax Citadel in Halifax on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
Statistics Canada says immigration is almost solely responsible for the largest annual population boom Canada has seen since 1957. Signage marks the Statistics Canada offices in Ottawa on July 21, 2010.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Immigration powers Canada’s largest population jump since 1957

Statistics Canada says country grew by more than a million people in the year ending July 2023

Statistics Canada says immigration is almost solely responsible for the largest annual population boom Canada has seen since 1957. Signage marks the Statistics Canada offices in Ottawa on July 21, 2010.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
FILE - Crowds of people walk along the White Rock in 2020. On June 16, 2023, Canada’s population hit the 40-million mark, with the 40 millionth person possibly a non-permanent resident in B.C. (Aaron Hinks photo)

A non-permanent B.C. resident might have been Canada’s 40 millionth person

Canada hit the milestone last week, following a record-setting growth in 2022

FILE - Crowds of people walk along the White Rock in 2020. On June 16, 2023, Canada’s population hit the 40-million mark, with the 40 millionth person possibly a non-permanent resident in B.C. (Aaron Hinks photo)
Statistics Canada says the country’s population has reached more than 40 million. Fans cheer during the Raptors Championship parade in Toronto on Monday, June 17, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Lahodynskyj

Canada passes 40 million population milestone amid immigration push

Country added 1.1 million people in 2022, most of them permanent and temporary immigrants

Statistics Canada says the country’s population has reached more than 40 million. Fans cheer during the Raptors Championship parade in Toronto on Monday, June 17, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Lahodynskyj
A birth is recorded in Saskatchewan as Canada’s population moves to surpass 40 million people today. Everyone with an internet connection can watch it happen in real time. (Stats Canada website screen grab)

Watch Canada’s population surpass 40 million people in real time

Stats Canada website shows births, deaths and immigration/emigration

A birth is recorded in Saskatchewan as Canada’s population moves to surpass 40 million people today. Everyone with an internet connection can watch it happen in real time. (Stats Canada website screen grab)
Rapid population growth is challenging economists’ understanding of the economy as they monitor how businesses and consumers are responding to high interest rates. Crowds attend the Canadian Tulip Festival at Commissioners Park in Ottawa, on Saturday, May 13, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

How population growth is affecting everything from jobs to housing in the economy

Canadian economy is outperforming expectations so far in 2023

Rapid population growth is challenging economists’ understanding of the economy as they monitor how businesses and consumers are responding to high interest rates. Crowds attend the Canadian Tulip Festival at Commissioners Park in Ottawa, on Saturday, May 13, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Ukrainian nationals fleeing the ongoing war in Ukraine, left, arrive in Montreal, Sunday, May 29, 2022. Canada’s population experienced a surprise boom in the third quarter, increasing at the fastest quarterly rate since 1957. The federal agency is attributing the boom to a rise in non-permanent residents, including work permit holders and refugees fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

Canada’s population growing faster than it has in decades: StatCan

Statistics Canada says the country’s population grew by 362,453 people between July and October

Ukrainian nationals fleeing the ongoing war in Ukraine, left, arrive in Montreal, Sunday, May 29, 2022. Canada’s population experienced a surprise boom in the third quarter, increasing at the fastest quarterly rate since 1957. The federal agency is attributing the boom to a rise in non-permanent residents, including work permit holders and refugees fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
FILE- Senior citizens make their way down a street in Peterborough, Ont. on Monday May 7, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

‘It is your new normal’: Canada’s aging work force root of national labour shortage

Canada’s labour force growth rate has been trending downward since 2000, and is intensifying

FILE- Senior citizens make their way down a street in Peterborough, Ont. on Monday May 7, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
Nuu-chah-nulth and Kwakwaka’wakw drummers sing the Grease Trail Song during a totem pole unveiling ceremony in Port Alberni. Canada’s Indigenous population is expected to grow faster than the country’s non-Indigenous population in the next 20 years, including in B.C. (Black Press Media file photo)

B.C. could be home to 500,000 Indigenous people by 2041

Canada’s Indigenous population growth projected to outpace non-Indigenous in next 20 years

Nuu-chah-nulth and Kwakwaka’wakw drummers sing the Grease Trail Song during a totem pole unveiling ceremony in Port Alberni. Canada’s Indigenous population is expected to grow faster than the country’s non-Indigenous population in the next 20 years, including in B.C. (Black Press Media file photo)