Canada reached a new high for population growth last year, increasing by over 1 million people, making it the highest recorded annual population growth on record since 1957.
Statistics Canada released new demographic estimates for Canada on March 22, indicating that the provinces and territories grew in population by 1,050,110 during the period from Jan. 1, 2022, to Jan. 1, 2023.
The population growth in 1957, the year that held the previous record, is attributed to higher births “during the post-war baby boom and the high immigration of refugees following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956,” according to the agency.
International migration is what accounted for 95.9 percent of all of Canada’s population growth last year. With Canada’s population growth rate of 2.7 percent in 2022, it places the country in the top 20 in the world, said Statistics Canada….