As of June 16, 2023, there are now 40 million Canadians!
Very exciting news! Thank you for sharing.
I found this image that they used quite interesting as well, highlighting some of the major influences on population growth
First doubling from 5 million took 35 years, next one took 37, and this latest one took 57.
Neat, I was just watching a video of the number one contributor of population growth.
Alcohol?
That’s #2 for sure
A little anticlimactic now that we’ve gone over the big number, but this dashboard gives a nice slowly ticking view of the data.
That’s really cool!
Love the little bar graphs filling up
Soon to be 4 more. Moving my family to BC in August!
Yay! Taking over the world.
No one suspects a thing…
Well how about that. How often do you get to tick the ten million place? That will make twice in my lifetime.
This is all an estimate however, right? Seeing as they only do a census every 5 years, I don’t see how this can be anything but. Admittedly the last one would have been only 2022 so the data is pretty recent, but that’s still only a static data point.
Sure, it’s impossible to know with total accuracy what the true number of people is, but based on census data/birth and death rates/immigration and emigration stats, they’ve got a pretty reliable way of calculating an estimate.
I wonder what error those estimates have, expressed in days? Maybe a dumb way of expressing an estimate error band, but if they’re saying “40 million today” knowing +/- how many days would be interesting. Or maybe it’s just me.
Yes it’s entirely based off of a mathematical model