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As of June 16, 2023, there are now 40 million Canadians!

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[–] Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Very exciting news! Thank you for sharing.

I found this image that they used quite interesting as well, highlighting some of the major influences on population growth

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Neat, I was just watching a video of the number one contributor of population growth.

[–] BigJim@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

That's #2 for sure

[–] yads@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

First doubling from 5 million took 35 years, next one took 37, and this latest one took 57.

[–] geodev@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A little anticlimactic now that we've gone over the big number, but this dashboard gives a nice slowly ticking view of the data.

That’s really cool!

Love the little bar graphs filling up

[–] moroni@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yay! Taking over the world.

[–] jsstaedtler@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

No one suspects a thing...

[–] pbjamm@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Soon to be 4 more. Moving my family to BC in August!

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is all an estimate however, right? Seeing as they only do a census every 5 years, I don't see how this can be anything but. Admittedly the last one would have been only 2022 so the data is pretty recent, but that's still only a static data point.

[–] jsstaedtler@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, it's impossible to know with total accuracy what the true number of people is, but based on census data/birth and death rates/immigration and emigration stats, they've got a pretty reliable way of calculating an estimate.

I wonder what error those estimates have, expressed in days? Maybe a dumb way of expressing an estimate error band, but if they're saying "40 million today" knowing +/- how many days would be interesting. Or maybe it's just me.

[–] yads@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes it's entirely based off of a mathematical model

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well how about that. How often do you get to tick the ten million place? That will make twice in my lifetime.

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