Geography 2010A/B Lecture 5: Week 5 – Canada’s Population
13 Feb 2017
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Today, the population is estimated to be 36 million. At the time of confederation, the population was approximately 3 million. Only 20% of countries have a population higher than canada. Current trends in canada(cid:495)s population: the rate of natural increase is declining, the population is aging, there is high birth rate among the indigenous population, highest growth is occurring in ontario, b. c. , alberta and saskatchewan. Population density: the number of people divided by the land area people per km2) Canada is the 2nd largest country in the world by land area. As a result, its population density is one of the lowest in the world (3. 7. (owever, canada(cid:495)s physiological density (cid:523)the amount of arable land per person) is similar to that of the u. s. Ontario has the highest population density of the six regions (14. 1 people per km2). This is despite the fact that northern ontario is sparsely populated.
