Canada’s inhabitants grew at a report tempo in 2022, including over 1,000,000 new individuals, virtually fully because of immigration into the nation.
In keeping with the most recent knowledge launched by the Authorities knowledge company, Statistics Canada or StatCan, the nation’s inhabitants is at 39,566,248, “after a report inhabitants progress of 1,050,110 individuals from January 1, 2022, to January 1, 2023.”
Newcomers from India comprise the biggest cohort on immigrants to the nation. In keeping with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada or IRCC figures 431,645 everlasting residents or PRs had been admitted in 2021, and India was the highest supply nation, with 127,933.
StatCan mentioned this was the primary 12-month interval in Canadian historical past “the place inhabitants grew by over 1 million individuals, and the best annual inhabitants progress fee (+2.7%) on report since that seen for 1957 (+3.3%).”
Worldwide migration accounted for almost all of the inhabitants progress, contributing 9.5 per cent of the entire.
It estimated that not solely does Canada have the best inhabitants rise among the many G7 nations, but additionally among the many nations constituting the Organisation for Financial Cooperation and Growth or OECD.
In reality, it famous “Canada’s inhabitants progress fee of two.7% in 2022 would put it among the many prime 20 on the planet. Virtually all nations with the next tempo of inhabitants progress had been in Africa.”
At this fee of progress, Canada’s inhabitants may double by the center of this century.
In 2022, Canada welcomed 437,180 PRs and noticed a internet improve of the variety of non-permanent residents estimated at 607,782. “Each of those numbers characterize the best ranges on report,” StatCan mentioned.
“The estimated good points in non-permanent residents recorded for 2022 are the best for a single calendar yr for which comparable knowledge can be found. Moreover, it’s the first time these good points are superior to these from immigrants over the identical interval,” it added. These non permanent immigrant classes embody staff and worldwide college students, amongst others.