According to Statistic Canada projections, Canada will add 13 million new citizens over the next 19 years
, is that Canada will be home to as many as 50 million people by 2041. It’s twice as high as the Canadian population as recently as 1980. It also means that over the next 19 years, we’ll be adding enough new Canadians to equal the present-day equivalent of all of Western Canada .
Naturally, adding 13 million extra Canadians over the next 19 years is going to result in some pretty large demographic shifts – which the number crunchers at Statistics Canada also took time to calculate. We rounded up some of the highlights below …Article contentAccording to Statistics Canada, if the country’s current patterns of low birth rates and high immigration continue, by 2041 half of us will either be immigrants or the children of one.
in the developed world . This trend is set to continue, and by 2041 StatCan projects that up to 40 per cent of the Canadian population will be non-white, and 25 per cent will have been born in either Asia or Africa.Article contentAs it has been doing for quite some time, Ontario is set to receive the largest share of the new influx.
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