Annual Demographic Estimates: Subprovincial Areas, July 1, 2016
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Census metropolitan areas
- On July 1, 2016, 25,534,700 people, or 7 in 10 Canadians (70.4 %), were living in a census metropolitan area (CMA).
- Between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016, the five CMAs with the highest population growth were in the Prairies.
- Moreover, the population growth rate was 20.0 per thousand or higher in those five CMAs: Saskatoon (+31.1 per thousand), Regina (+26.0 per thousand), Calgary (+24.6 per thousand), Edmonton (+24.3 per thousand) and Winnipeg (+21.3 per thousand).
- The overall CMA growth in the 2015/2016 period (+15.9 per thousand) exceeded the growth of the previous annual period (+11.1 per thousand). Immigration, the main source of growth, reached a record number in many CMAs over the last year.
- The population decreased in the CMAs of Thunder Bay (-2.5 per thousand) and Saguenay (-2.0 per thousand).
Economic regions
- With a population growth rate of 26.5 per thousand, the economic region (ER) of Saskatoon–Biggar (Sask.) was the fastest growing ER in 2015/2016. The strongest population decrease was recorded in the North Coast ER (-21.2 per thousand) in British Columbia.
- On July 1, 2016, Quebec’s Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine ER had the oldest median age, at 52.0 years.
Census divisions
- The fastest growing census division (CD) was Mirabel in Quebec with a population growth rate of 31.1 per thousand between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016. The CD with the largest population decrease was Kitimat-Stikine (-24.7 per thousand) in British-Columbia.
- On July 1, 2016, Nova Scotia’s Guysborough CD had the oldest median age, at 56.3 years, and the highest proportion of people aged 65 years and older, at 32.1%. Nunavut’s Keewatin CD had the highest proportion of people aged under 15 years (33.3%) and the lowest median age (24.2 years).
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