About Population Projections for Canada, Provinces and Territories

You can choose Population Projections for Canada, Provinces and Territories in the format that’s the most convenient for you.

• A unilingual analytical report available in print or via the Internet (in HTML or PDF format) in the official language of your choice
• A bilingual CD-ROM

About the analytical report

The projections report is designed to provide an overview of plausible future population trends and has three main parts:

1. A methodology section that clearly and simply describes the base population, the assumptions on the components of population growth, the projection scenarios chosen and the methods used
2. An analysis of the main results of the six projection scenarios developed for the report. This analysis, illustrated by many explanatory tables and charts, focuses primarily on the growth of the Canadian population, the sources of population growth, the changing age structure of the population and the distribution of the population among the provinces and territories.
3. An appendix containing detailed data on which the analysis is based, namely projection data by age group and sex and by component for six projection scenarios to 2056 for Canada and to 2031 for the provinces and territories

The population projections report is written in precise, accessible language and includes a bibliography and a glossary of relevant terms.

About the CD-ROM

If you are a user who prefers electronic access to detailed data and a larger number of projection scenarios, then this version is for you.  The CD-ROM on the projections includes:

1. English and French versions of the analytical report in PDF format
2. Tables (in spreadsheet format) that present data by sex, single year of age, province/territory and year of projection for thirteen projection scenarios, including the six scenarios that are also in the analytical report. These detailed data are available to 2031 for the provinces/territories and to 2056 for Canada. The CD-ROM also contains data on the total population of the provinces and territories from 2031 to 2056.

User-friendly and easy to install on your computer, the CD-ROM on population projections also includes data tables by component of population growth.