Statistics Canada reported on Wednesday that Canada’s population was estimated at 39,292,355 people on October 1, an increase of 362,453 people (+0.9 per cent) from July 1 and this was the highest quarterly population growth rate since the second quarter of 1957 (+1.2 per cent). At the time, Canada’s population was 16.7 million people and it increased by 198,000 people.
It said the rapid population growth then was related to the high number of births during the post-war baby boom and the high immigration of refugees following the Hungarian Revolution in 1956.
Statistics Canada
“This recent three-month growth of over 362,000 people is a similar level of growth that Canada used to see in an entire year about one decade ago. For example, during the whole of 2011, Canada’s population grew by 350,253 people,” explained StatsCan.
“Canada’s total population growth for the first nine months of 2022 (+776,217 people) has already surpassed the total growth for any full-year period since Confederation in 1867. This high level of growth was mostly (94.0 per cent) due to international migration (+340,666 people), which pushed Canada’s population over 39 million for the first time.
“In the third quarter of 2022, Canada welcomed 122,145 immigrants, about the same number as in the third quarter of 2021 (122,911) and the second-highest number of immigrants in any third quarter since 1946, the year quarterly data became available. Immigration levels remained elevated, reflecting higher targets from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.”
Statistics Canada said Ontario continued experiencing net losses to interprovincial migration, which began in the first quarter of 2020. The loss in the third quarter of 2022 (-11,581) was the largest net loss for Ontario in a third quarter since the third quarter of 1980 (-18,244). Alberta (+19,285) had the highest net gain from interprovincial migration in a third quarter since 1980 (+20,706), while British Columbia (-4,799) had net losses to interprovincial migration for the first time in any quarter for almost one decade (first quarter of 2013, -383).
(Mario Toneguzzi is Managing Editor of Canada’s Podcast. He has more than 40 years of experience as a daily newspaper writer, columnist, and editor. He worked for 35 years at the Calgary Herald, covering sports, crime, politics, health, faith, city and breaking news, and business. He works as well as a freelance writer for several national publications and as a consultant in communications and media relations/training. Mario was named in 2021 as one of the Top 10 Business Journalists in the World by PR News – the only Canadian to make the list)
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