The Daily Wednesday, February 9, 2022
Press Release
Canada tops G7 growth despite COVID
Canada’s population grew at almost twice the pace of every other G7 country from 2016 to 2021. Approximately 1.8 million more people called Canada home in 2021 compared with five years earlier, with most of that growth attributable to new arrivals from around the world. However, Canada’s population growth was halted with the onset of the pandemic.
Canada’s large urban centres continue to grow and spread
From 2016 to 2021, the downtown populations of Canada’s large urban centres grew at almost twice the pace of the urban centres as a whole, despite a pause during the pandemic. At the same time, urban spread continued, and was accelerating in many urban centres, particularly in suburbs located the farthest from downtown.
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