The population of Canada reached an estimated 41,288,599 on July 1, 2024. With a quarterly growth rate of 0.6%, this means that 250,229 people were added to the Canadian population from April 1 to July 1, 2024.
This growth rate was slower than the same quarter of 2023 (+334,606; +0.8%) and 2022 (+253,510; +0.7%). This marked the first time since 2020 that quarterly growth has been slower than in the same quarter a year earlier (Infographic 1). In 2020, population growth was almost halted following border restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
While the population growth rate in the second quarter of 2024 showed signs of slowing, it remained higher than in any other second quarter before 2022 (since the second quarter of 1972 when comparable data became available).
