Statistics Canada says the country's population is expected to reach 63 million by the year 2073. Crowds attend Family Day at the Calgary Stampede parade in Calgary, Sunday, July 9, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
OTTAWA – Statistics Canada says the country’s population is expected to reach 63 million by the year 2073. Here’s a list of figures predicted by the national agency.
– The population of those over 85 could triple in the next five decades.
– The percentage of children between ages 0 and 14 in the overall population continues to decline, falling from 34 per cent in 1962 to 15.4 per cent last year and it will keep falling.
– Growth in the proportion of those over 65 will be less pronounced after 2030 when all baby boomers have reached or passed that age.
– The baby boom cohort ages the population between 2031 and 2050, with those 85 and older increasing from 896,600 last year to between 3.3. and 4.3 million by 2073.
– The average age for Canada’s population would reach between 42.6 and 50.1 years by 2073.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 24, 2024.
