The number of people living in Canada rose 1.2%, or 457,888, to 38.5 million in 2021, according to Statistics Canada estimates released Thursday in Ottawa. That’s more than 160,273 the year before and closer to record population growth in the years before the Covid-19 pandemic.

This post Canada’s population will increase by nearly half a million in 2021

was original published at “https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/canada-s-population-jumped-by-nearly-half-a-million-in-2021”