Population Change

Topic Box from the 2011 Final Benchmark Report

British Columbia’s population grew by 1.3 million people between 1990 and 2009. BC’s 39 percent increase was well above the national average and second only to Alberta’s 48 percent growth.

Newfoundland and Labrador is the only province where population fell over the period. Its population declined in every year between 1992 and 2008, grew for two and then fell again last year.

Population growth returned to Saskatchewan in 2007 after nine declines in the prior ten years.

Immigration has kept Quebec’s population growing in spite of inter-provincial outflows for the last twenty years.