The rural share of the population is higher in the territories and Atlantic provinces

• Over the past 50 years, between 1961 and 2011, the share of the Canadian population living in rural areas declined considerably, from 30% to 19%.
• Even during the five year period between 2006 and 2011 the proportion of the rural population dropped from 19.8% to 18.9% for Canada overall. By 2011, the proportion had dropped for all provinces and territories to about two-fifths or more of the population in the territories and the Atlantic provinces and less than one-fifth in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia.

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