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Many of Alberta's cities and towns have also experienced high rates of growth in recent history. From a population of 73,022 in 1901, Alberta has grown to 4,262,635 in 2021 and in the process has gone from less than 1.5% of Canada's population to 11.5%. [3] It is the fourth most populated province in Canada. Between the 2016 and 2021 censuses ...
Canada is divided into 10 provinces and three territories.The majority of Canada's population is concentrated in the areas close to the Canada–US border.Its four largest provinces by area (Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, and Alberta) are also its most populous; together they account for 86.5 percent of the country's population.
The Calgary–Edmonton Corridor is the most urbanized area in the province and is one of the most densely populated areas of Canada. [61] Many of Alberta's cities and towns have experienced very high rates of growth in recent history. [when?] Alberta's population rose from 73,022 in 1901 [62] to 3,290,350 according to the 2006 census. [63]
Alberta has six specialized municipalities, which are recognized as census subdivisions by Statistics Canada. [2] [13] In the 2021 Census of Population, they had a cumulative population of 202,461, a total land area of 155,463.32 km 2 (60,024.72 sq mi). [3] These totals represent 5% of Alberta's population yet 24.5% of its land area.
Alberta has 19 cities that had a cumulative population of 3,023,641 (not including the population in the Saskatchewan portion of Lloydminster) and an average population of 159,139 in the 2021 Census of Population. [2] Alberta's largest and smallest cities are Calgary and Wetaskiwin, with populations of 1,306,784 and 12,594, respectively. [2]
The table below lists the 100 largest census subdivisions (municipalities or municipal equivalents) in Canada by population, using data from the 2021 Canadian census for census subdivisions. [1] This list includes only the population within a census subdivision's boundaries as defined at the time of the census.
[3] [4] [5] Ten of the fifteen fastest-growing CAs in Canada between the two most recent censuses were located in Alberta. The other five were located in British Columbia with two, and Manitoba, Ontario and Yukon each with one. Between 2006 and 2011, twenty-four CAs experienced population decline.
In the 2021 Census, the City of Calgary had a population of 1,306,784 residents, representing 30.7% of the 4,262,635 residents in all of Alberta, and 3.5% compared to a population of 36,991,981 in all of Canada. [23] The total population of the Calgary census metropolitan area was 1,481,806. [24] Calgary is the largest city in Alberta, and the ...