Manitoba population growth outpaces national average
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Manitoba’s population continues to grow at a faster pace than the national average.
Preliminary numbers released Wednesday by Statistics Canada show Manitoba’s population was 1,318,128 as of July 1 of this year.
That’s up 22,147 people, or 1.7 per cent, from a year earlier, when there were 1,295,981 people living in the province. It was also up 1.1 per cent from the start of this year, when the population was 1,303,896.
During the same period, Canada’s population grew by 1.2 per cent to 36,286,425 from 35,848,610 on July 1, 2015, the data show.
The growth in Manitoba is the result of several factors, including an increase in the number of immigrant arrivals (17,238 compared to 14,799 during the previous 12-month period); a lower net loss of people to other provinces (5,900 versus 6,678) and an increase in the number of births (17,372 versus 17,065).
The rise in the birth rate was partially offset by an increase in the number of deaths (10,676 versus 10,503).
murray.mcneill@freepress.mb.ca