Canada’s inhabitants grew at a file tempo in 2022, including over one million new folks, virtually fully on account of immigration into the nation.

In response to the most recent information launched by the Authorities information company, Statistics Canada or StatCan, the nation’s inhabitants is at 39,566,248, “after a file inhabitants development of 1,050,110 folks from January 1, 2022, to January 1, 2023.”

Newcomers from India comprise the biggest cohort on immigrants to the nation. In response to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada or IRCC figures 431,645 everlasting residents or PRs had been admitted in 2021, and India was the highest supply nation, with 127,933.

StatCan mentioned this was the primary 12-month interval in Canadian historical past “the place inhabitants grew by over 1 million folks, and the best annual inhabitants development fee (+2.7%) on file since that seen for 1957 (+3.3%).”

Worldwide migration accounted for practically all of the inhabitants development, contributing 9.5 per cent of the full.

It estimated that not solely does Canada have the best inhabitants rise among the many G7 nations, but additionally among the many nations constituting the Organisation for Financial Cooperation and Growth or OECD.

In truth, it famous “Canada’s inhabitants development fee of two.7% in 2022 would put it among the many high 20 on the planet. Nearly all nations with a better tempo of inhabitants development had been in Africa.”

At this fee of development, Canada’s inhabitants might double by the center of this century.

In 2022, Canada welcomed 437,180 PRs and noticed a internet enhance of the variety of non-permanent residents estimated at 607,782. “Each of those numbers signify the best ranges on file,” StatCan mentioned.

“The estimated positive factors in non-permanent residents recorded for 2022 are the best for a single calendar yr for which comparable information can be found. Moreover, it’s the first time these positive factors are superior to these from immigrants over the identical interval,” it added. These non permanent immigrant classes embody staff and worldwide college students, amongst others.