(Ottawa) Statistics Canada announces that the country’s population exceeded 41 million in the first quarter of this year, with growth of 0.6%.
The agency indicates that the Canadian population reached 41,012,563 as of April 1, a gain of 242,673 inhabitants during the first three months of the year. Statistics Canada specifies that half of this quarterly increase is attributable to immigration.
This population growth rate of 0.6% is identical to that recorded in the first and fourth quarters of 2023, underlines Statistics Canada.
Net emigration amounted to 12,613 people for the first quarter of 2024.
Canada also added 131,810 non-permanent residents to its population.
Statistics Canada notes that for temporary immigration, most of the growth occurred before the announcement that the number of permits issued to non-permanent residents would be capped in 2024.
