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Highlights

1. On January 1, 2008, Canada’s population stood at 33,143,600, up 52,400 from October 1, 2007. In absolute numbers, this was the strongest demographic growth since 1992 for a fourth quarter (59,800).
2. While the four provinces and two territories west of Ontario experienced an annualized demographic growth rate exceeding 10.0 per thousand, the country’s other jurisdictions all had growth rates below that of Canada as a whole (6.3 per thousand).
3. Especially owing to positive net interprovincial migration, Saskatchewan registered the strongest demographic growth of any province in Canada (13.3 per thousand) for a second consecutive quarter.
4. Alberta’s demographic growth still exceeds that of the country overall, despite losses in interprovincial migration. Owing to the strongest natural growth of any province and a steady increase in the number of immigrants and non-permanent residents, the province’s population continues to grow.
5. The number of births in Quebec continues to rise. The province registered its greatest number of newborns for a fourth quarter since 1994.
6. For the first time in a fourth quarter, natural growth in the four Atlantic provinces was negative. Nevertheless, the population of Newfoundland and Labrador grew by 600 in the last three months of 2007. Not since 1992 (1,200) has there been a greater increase in a fourth quarter.