Canada's population growth at 0.0% so far this year: StatCan

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 18, 2025 1:28 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 infinitesimal ago

Statistics Canada says the country's colonisation maturation stalled successful the archetypal 4th of 2025.

The bureau says the Canadian colonisation roseate by 20,107 radical from Jan. 1 to April 1, the smallest summation since the 3rd 4th of 2020 — during the COVID-19 pandemic — erstwhile it contracted by 1,232 people.

StatsCan says Canada present has a colonisation of 41,548,787 people. The summation was truthful tiny that it amounted to 0.0 per cent growth, the bureau said.

"This was the second-slowest quarterly maturation complaint successful Canada since comparable records began (first 4th of 1946), down lone the 3rd 4th of 2020 and tied with the 4th fourth of 2014," the bureau said successful its merchandise Wednesday.

It was the sixth consecutive 4th of slower colonisation maturation aft a determination by the national authorities successful 2024 to little the levels of some impermanent and imperishable immigration.

However, migration inactive accounted for each of the colonisation maturation successful the 4th arsenic determination were 5,628 much deaths than births successful Canada.

Canada admitted 104,256 immigrants successful the archetypal 4th of 2025, portion nett emigration totalled 17,410.

Significant driblet successful non-permanent residents

Meanwhile, the fig of non-permanent residents dropped by 61,111.

While the complaint of colonisation maturation slowed during the archetypal quarter, Statistics Canada said migration levels stay high, though comparatively little than successful caller years.

The bureau said it was the smallest fig of immigrants admitted during a archetypal 4th successful 4 years.

"However, anterior to 2022, Canada had ne'er welcomed much than 86,246 immigrants successful a archetypal 4th (which occurred successful the archetypal 4th of 2016)," the bureau said.

In October, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada released accusation connected its 2025-27 Immigration Levels Plan, which included targets for planetary students and impermanent overseas workers for the archetypal time.

"In caller years, Canada welcomed newcomers to enactment our system and code labour marketplace needs. As we determination distant from post-pandemic measures, determination is simply a request to amended align impermanent and imperishable nonmigratory migration levels with assemblage capacity," the national authorities said astatine the time.