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This is a list of francophone communities in Alberta. Municipalities with a high percentage of French -speakers in the Canadian province of Alberta are listed. The provincial average of Albertans whose mother tongue is French is 1.5%, with a total of 64,855 people in Alberta who identify French as their mother tongue in 2021.
In the 2016 census, 411,315 Albertans, or 10.5 per cent of the provincial population, reported having partial or full French ancestry. [5] French is the sixth most commonly reported ethnic group in Alberta after Canadian, English, German, Scottish, and Irish. [5]
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, the Alberta population grew by 4.8%.
The 2021 Canadian census reported Alberta had a population of 4,262,635 living in 1,633,220 of its 1,772,670 total dwellings, an 4.8% change from its 2016 population of 4,067,175. With a land area of 634,658.27 km 2 (245,042.93 sq mi), it had a population density of 6.7/km 2 in 2021. [ 2 ]
According to the OECD/World Bank population statistics, for the same period the world population growth was 27%, a total of 1,423 million people. [33] However, over the same period, the population of France grew by 8.0%. And from 1991 to 2011, the population of the UK increased by 10.0%. The current population growth rate for Canada in 2022 was ...
Most populous municipality: Toronto, Ontario, 2,794,356 [1] Highest percentage increase in population from 2016: Kapawe'no First Nation 229, Alberta, 1,840.0% [1] This geographic area underwent a boundary change since the 2016 Census that resulted in an adjustment to the 2016 population and/or dwelling counts for this area.
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.
French is the mother tongue of approximately 10 million Canadians (22 percent of the Canadian population, second to English at 56 percent) according to the 2021 Canadian Census. [1] Most Canadian native speakers of French live in Quebec, the only province where French is the majority and the sole official language. [2]