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In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Wawa had a population of 2,705 living in 1,213 of its 1,377 total private dwellings, a change of -6.9% from its 2016 population of 2,905. With a land area of 411.89 km 2 (159.03 sq mi), it had a population density of 6.6/km 2 (17.0/sq mi) in 2021. [15]
There is a striking difference between the Toronto CMA [citation needed] (5,862,850) and the rest of Ontario (7,379,310); in particular, in the Toronto CMA visible minorities account for 51.4% of the population (3,011,900), whereas in the rest of Ontario the percentage of visible minorities in the overall population is much lower, at 11.8% ...
The main driver of population growth is immigration, [8] [9] with 6.2% of the country's population being made up of temporary residents as of 2023, [10] or about 2.5 million people. [11] Between 2011 and May 2016, Canada's population grew by 1.7 million people, with immigrants accounting for two-thirds of the increase. [12]
A population centre, in Canadian census data, is a type of census unit which meets the demographic characteristics of an urban area, having a population of at least 1,000 people and a population density of no fewer than 400 persons per square km 2. [1]
The last complete census by Statistics Canada, which was taken in 2021, estimated there were 2,794,356 living in Toronto, [25] making it the most populous city in Canada [26] and the fourth most populous municipality in North America. [27] Toronto's population grew by 2.3 percent from 2016 to 2021, with an annual growth rate of 0.46 percent.
In 2001, females made up 51.2% of the amalgamated Ottawa population, while the median age of the population was 36.7 years of age. [21] Youths under 15 years of age comprised 18.9% of the total population, while those of retirement age (65 years and older) comprised 11.4%. [21]
Since Confederation, Ontario and Quebec have always been Canada's two most populous provinces. However, their combined demographic weight decreased from over 80 percent at Confederation to just over 60 percent in 2016. The Atlantic provinces also lost importance within Canada, from around 20 percent at Confederation to under 7 percent today ...
The 2021 census recorded a total federal population of 36,991,981, living in 14,978,941 of its 16,284,235 private dwellings. With a land area of 8,788,702.80 km 2 (3,393,337.12 sq mi), its population density was 4.21/km 2 (10.90/sq mi). Canada's most- and least-populated provinces were Ontario and Prince Edward Island, respectively.