Statistics Canada's demographic estimates benefit from ongoing methodological adjustments in order for the program to adapt to societal, economic, and policy changes. This estimated population of 2.2 million non-permanent residents now outnumbers the 1.8 million Indigenous people enumerated during the 2021 Census of Population.

This represents the largest year-over-year increase in the population of non-permanent residents living in Canada since comparable data are available (1971/1972), with the increase in work and study permits accounting for most of the change in the last year. More information on births, fertility levels and the most popular baby names in 2022 can be found in the products Fertility indicators, provinces and territories: Interactive dashboard, Baby Names Observatory, and the new infographic Canada's most popular baby names in 2022.Īs of July 1, 2023, an estimated 2,198,679 non-permanent residents lived in Canada, a 46% increase from the same date one year prior (1,500,978). Fertility reached record-low levels in 2022, with 1.33 children per woman, compared with 1.44 in 2021. Rise in temporary immigration lifts population growthĬlose to 98% of the growth in the Canadian population from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2023, came from net international migration, with 2% coming from the difference between births and deaths. If the rate of population growth seen this past year remained constant in the future, it would lead to the Canadian population doubling in 25 years.

In absolute numbers, the increase observed last year is more than twice the increase observed in 1957 (+555,000).

The population growth on July 1, 2023, marks the highest population growth rate recorded for a 12-month period since 1957 (+3.3%), during the Hungarian refugee crisis and at the height of the baby boom. Today's release of total demographic estimates and related data tables for a reference date of July 1, 2023, is the first since reaching that milestone.Ĭanada continued to lead G7 countries for population growth and was likely among the top 20 fastest growing countries in the world. On June 16, 2023, Statistics Canada announced that Canada's population passed the 40 million mark according to the Canada's population clock (real-time model).

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