According to the latest data made available by a top think-tank of Canada, the nation’s populace is expanding much quickly, as compared to other countries from the G8 (it’s a medium for the administrations of 8 of the globe’s biggest economies), even as the same is mainly fuelled by mass movement of people from overseas.
The report brought out by the said research group, suggests that the Canadian province of Saskatchewanhas emerged as a big draw for fresh entrants, with immigration propelling a much bigger piece of its populace growth, as compared to any other Canadian territory or province.
Making the yearly growth rate of the nation the most remarkable and the highest among the nations of the G8, the population of the Maple Country, Canada, neared 35 million as on July 1 even while it is up 1.1% from a year before. During the same time period, the populace of the US grew by 0.7% even as Japan’s nose-dived by 0.3%. Immigration was the chief reason behind the population surge of Canada, much like it has been for nearly the last 20 years. Migration was behind 70% or two-thirds of the swell for the year concluding on June 30.
The West continues to be source of power for the nation’s numerical growth, with the populace of the Canadian province of Alberta increasing by 2.5%, and the populace of Saskatchewan heading north by 2.1% during 2011-12. Registering the biggest rate of growth across the nation, migration to the province of Saskatchewan headed north by 1.3%. The overall populace of the Maple Country also continues to become old, even as its average age touches 40 years.
The report in question further says that the number of old people across the nation is almost identical with the number of kids in the country. The number of those aged 65 and above swelled 57.6% during the last two decades even as the number of children dipped 3.6%. While old people constituted 14.9% of the populace as of July, up from 11.6% 20 years back; the young adults, aged 14 and below, characterized 16.2% of the populace, down from 20.7% during 1992, concludes the report.
