Canada hits 40 million!
Canada hits 40 million!
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Canada just hit 40 million people!
Canada just hit 40 million people!
Kinda rude
I still think of Canada as only having 30 million. Crazy to think we've grown by a third since then.
If you’d asked me 2 minutes ago what Canada’s population was, I would have told you just under 33 million with almost 100% confidence. When did we grow that much?
Canada has always been a nation of immigrants but y'all really leaned into that in the past 50 years. Canada broke 20 million in 1966, at which time the population of the US was just under 200 million. Since then, approximately 11,936,700 immigrants have come to Canada, and the total population has doubled in just 57 years.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_immigration_statistics
Currently, 23% of the 40 million Canadians are immigrants.
In contrast, the US population has only increased by 66% in that time frame (200m -> 333m), and the proportion of Americans that are immigrants is just 14.4%.
I'm kinda OCD about demographics, I love to crunch the numbers when I'm in the mood. And 2022 and 2023 have been record breaking years for Canadian immigration, so the 40 million mark definitely did pop up out of nowhere.
Heck yeah, we're now more populous than California! I knew we could do it 👍
Not trying to stoke flames here, honest question, but how much of that growth is thanks to immigration you think?
i dont have an exact answer, but you can look on the website its self
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2018005-eng.htm and on desktop if you hover the mouse over the coloured bars it will tell you how often each one changes.
ie birth 1 min 24 seconds death 1 min 41 seconds immigrant 1 min 7 seconds etc etc.
not sure how linking works on this system yet, maybe a direct video link?
we did it _