17/06/2026
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For the first time on record, Canada's population has now declined for 3 straight quarters. Statistics Canada estimates the population declined by 55,025 people in the first quarter of 2026, bringing the total population to 41.4 million.
The drop was largely driven by a decrease of nearly 118,000 non-permanent residents, while Canada also welcomed fewer permanent immigrants than it did during the same period last year.
The only other quarterly population decline on record happened in Q4 2020, during the height of COVID-19 restrictions — and even then, that decrease was just 1,232 people.
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