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Canada

41,651,653

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+389.32K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+35.7%from 30.69M
Life expectancy82.1 years2024
Fertility rate1.25births per woman · 2024
Urban population82.9%2025
RegionNorth AmericaHigh income

A country at every age

How Canada is shaped by age.

A larger older population makes healthy ageing, care, and a smaller future workforce especially important.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1415.0%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6464.8%Working-age population
Ages 65+20.3%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate8.9births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate7.9deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+1.0births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+326.2Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Canada look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 45.62M in 2050—14.8% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202439.74M
  2. 205045.62M
  3. 210053.61M
Median age in 205045.1years
Births in 2050380.31Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050491.75Kduring the year
Life expectancy86.2years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196017.91M
  2. 197021.32M
  3. 198024.52M
  4. 199027.69M
  5. 200030.69M
  6. 201034.01M
  7. 202038.03M
  8. 202541.65M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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