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Ontario, one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada, is located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province by a large margin, accounting for nearly 40 percent of all Canadians, and is the second-largest province in total area.
Ontario is the most populous province of Canada with almost 40% of the country's population and the second-largest in terms of land area, or the 4th largest in area when the territories of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories are included.
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.
In the 2021 census, Ontario had a population of 14,223,942 living in 5,491,201 of its 5,929,250 total dwellings, a 5.8 percent change from its 2016 population of 13,448,494. With a land area of 892,411.76 km 2 (344,562.11 sq mi), it had a population density of 15.9/km 2 (41.3/sq mi) in 2021. [ 2 ]
The latest update uses the 2022 population estimates from Statistics Canada (released in February 2022 and based on the 2016 Census) as a base and includes: changes in the base population. changes to reflect the most recent trends in: fertility. mortality. migration.
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.
Annual population estimates as of July 1st, by census metropolitan area and census agglomeration, single year of age, five-year age group and gender, based on the Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) 2021.
Ontario’s population is projected to increase by 41.7 per cent, or over 6.5 million, over the next 28 years, from an estimated 15.6 million on July 1, 2023 to over 22.1 million by July 1, 2051.
Ontario’s population reached 15,996,989 on April 1, 2024, with an increase of 85,704 residents during the first quarter of 2024. This compares to an increase of 78,896 people recorded in the same quarter of 2023.
For the first time in Canadian history, the population of Ontario surpassed 15 million people during 2021/2022. Over the same time period, the population of Nova Scotia passed the one million-mark, New Brunswick surpassed 800,000 residents and Nunavut now has more than 40,000 residents.