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Quarterly demographic statistics
October-December 2005
Highlights
- The population of Canada grew by 44,800 in the fourth quarter
of 2005, reaching 32,422,900 on January 1, 2006.
This was the largest fourth-quarter increase since 2001.
- This rise in Canadian population growth was due mainly to the arrival
of 55,400 immigrants in the last three months of 2005, up 7,300 from
the same period in the previous year. Not since 2000 has Canada
received such a large number of immigrants in a fourth quarter.
- Alberta’s net interprovincial migration reached 17,100, a
new fourth-quarter high. Alberta’s economic growth has exerted a powerful
draw on Canadians nationwide, and this has led to much faster population growth
in Alberta than elsewhere in Canada.
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