Canada just hit 40 million people!

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    1 year ago

    Canada has always been a nation of immigrants but y’all really leaned into that in the past 50 years. Canada broke 20 million in 1966, at which time the population of the US was just under 200 million. Since then, approximately 11,936,700 immigrants have come to Canada, and the total population has doubled in just 57 years.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_immigration_statistics

    Currently, 23% of the 40 million Canadians are immigrants.

    In contrast, the US population has only increased by 66% in that time frame (200m -> 333m), and the proportion of Americans that are immigrants is just 14.4%.

    I’m kinda OCD about demographics, I love to crunch the numbers when I’m in the mood. And 2022 and 2023 have been record breaking years for Canadian immigration, so the 40 million mark definitely did pop up out of nowhere.

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      1 year ago

      And 2022 and 2023 have been record breaking years for Canadian immigration

      In absolute terms or also as annual percentage increase?

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        During this period, the highest annual immigration rate in Canada occurred in 1913, when 400,900 new immigrants accounted for 5.3 percent of the total population while the greatest number of immigrants admitted to Canada in single year occurred in 2022, with 437,500 persons accounting for 1.1 percent of the total population.

        In absolute terms

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          1 year ago

          I don’t know why you even bother citing sources when lazy jerks like that guy won’t even click on them.

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            1 year ago

            Lmao you said it, not me.

            It’s worse because it’s literally the second sentence of the Wikipedia article 😅