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Quarterly Demographic Estimates
April to June 2006, Preliminary
Highlights
- On July 1, 2006, the population of Canada was estimated at 32,623,500 people,
an increase of 99,600 since April 1. Demographic growth of
the second quarter of 2006 (0.31%) was virtually identical to the
average for same quarters of the last 10 years.
- Near 70.0% of Canada’s demographic growth in the last quarter
resulted net international migration. This proportion, stable since the beginning
of the 2000’s, is higher than what was observed before for a second
quarter.
- Immigration remains high. Although the number of new arrivals (67,900)
does not equal the historical record set in the same period of 2005 (74,500),
it is still slightly higher than the average, for a second quarter, of the 2000 to 2005 period
(66,900).
- Alberta (+0.70%) and Nunavut (+0.96%) continued to show a demographic
growth by far higher than the Canadian average. For both jurisdictions, such
a growth is mainly due to a strong net interprovincial migration.
- Quebec and Alberta registered an important increase in the number of
births. For Quebec, this is the second consecutive quarter in which a considerable
increase in births has been observed.
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