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Canada: Population

Millions of people · 1800–2025 · 226 observations · forecasts to 2031 · pop

2025
41.5 millionpeople
Change on 2024
+0.9%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+1.5%a year

Population

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Recent values

Millions of people

YearValue
203143.6Forecast
203043.3Forecast
202943.0Forecast
202842.7Forecast
202742.3Forecast
202642.0Forecast
202541.5
202441.1
202340.1
202238.9
202138.2
202038.0
201937.6
201837.1
201736.5
201636.1

Sources

  • Federico & Tena-Junguito1800–1938
  • Gapminder1800–2023
  • Fouquin & Hugot (CEPII)1827–2014
  • Statistics Canada1867–1977
  • Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1870–2020
  • Maddison Project Database1870–2022
  • Bordo1880–1997
  • Penn World Table1950–2019
  • WDI (archive)1960–1997
  • Piketty & Zucman1960–2010
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • OECD Economic Outlook1970–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • Gapminder (forecast)2023–2030
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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