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Census facts

By: Staff Writer

Posted: 02/9/2012 1:00 AM | Comments: 0

-- Fewer than one in five Canadians now lives in rural areas

-- One in three Canadians lives in one of the three largest metropolitan areas: Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver

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-- Thunder Bay, Ont., suffered the largest percentage decrease in population, losing 10.3 per cent.

-- Every province experienced positive growth between 2006-11

-- The 33.5 million Canadians counted is nearly the same number of people China added to its 1.3 billion population in the past five years

-- Canada's head count represents a bit less than one-half of one per cent of Earth's seven billion residents

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition February 9, 2012 0

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