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A list of the population of Canada by year from its official establishment in 1867 to present.

Historical population of Canada, 1867-2009

Canada's current annual population growth rate is 1.238%, or a daily increase of 1,137 individuals. Between 1867 and 2009 Canada's population grew by 9.79x, and is projected to be 34,630,000, or exactly ten times greater in size, in January of 2011. It will have taken 144 years to do so.

Canada in New France, and subsequently the British Colonies notoriously faced dwindling or stagnant population. Conversely, the population has consistently risen every year since the establishment of the country (1867), however to a great degree of variability. The year with the least population growth (in real terms) was 1882-1883 when only 30,000 new Canadians were counted. The year with the most population growth was during the peak of the Post-World War II baby boom in 1956-1957, when the population of Canada grew by over 529,000, in a single twelve month period.

• Canada's population growth is broken down into; natural growth (births-deaths), and immigration (immigration-emigration):

•Natural growth accounts for an annual increase of 137,626 persons, at a yearly rate of 0.413%.
•Immigration accounts for an annual increase of 277,683 persons, at a yearly rate of 0.827%.

Canada makes up 0.5% of the world population, and Canadians make up 0.53% or 1 in 189 globally.

(All data is provided by Statistics Canada at the end of the calendar year. The years with census' (administered on the second and sixth year of every decade), which count the numbers at a time period prior to the end of the calendar year, are adjusted by Statistics Canada to be accurate.)

See also

• Demographics of Canada

References