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Canada has six population centres with more than one million people: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa. The large size of Canada's north, which is currently not arable, and thus cannot support large human populations, significantly lowers the country's carrying capacity.
Canada's population clock provides information on the pace of population renewal of the Canadian population. In this tool, the components of population growth are modelled in real time in order to adjust the population of the country, provinces and territories.
The current population of Canada is 39,847,373 based on projections of the latest United Nations data. The UN estimates the July 1, 2024 population at 39,742,400.
The 2021 Canadian census had a total population count of 36,991,981 individuals, making up approximately 0.5% of the world's total population. [ 5 ][ 20 ] A population estimate for 2024 put the total number of people in Canada at 41,012,563. [ 21 ][ 22 ]
This table displays the results of Census population counts by province or territory 2011, 2016, 2021 and 2011 to 2021, calculated using number and percent change units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Canada’s population reaches 38.2 million. On July 1, 2021, Canada’s population was estimated at 38,246,108, up 208,904 from July 1, 2020 (+0.5%). This growth is lower than what had been seen in recent years with a growth rate of 1.4% in 2018/2019 and 1.2% in 2019/2020.
The 2021 Census of Population Program offers a wide range of analysis, data, reference and geographical information according to topics (subjects) that paint a portrait of Canada and its population. The population and dwelling counts are the first major release of data from the 2021 Census of Population.
This profile presents information from the 2021 Census of Population for various levels of geography, including provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas, communities and census tracts.
These products provide statistical information about the population, households, dwellings, families, immigration and ethnocultural diversity, Aboriginal peoples, education and labour, mobility and migration, language of work, income and housing as measured in the census program.
In 2022, the number of Canadians rose by 1,050,110. This marks the first time in Canadian history that our population grew by over 1 million people in a single year, and the highest annual population growth rate (+2.7%) on record since 1957 (+3.3%).