Canada's population growth continues to slow, consistent with lowered immigration targets

Canada has just marked its lowest year-over year population growth since the Second World War, according to a new report from Statistics Canada.The population reached an estimated 41,798,407 people on July 1, 2026, an increase of 189,425 people from July 1, 2025, however this is the lowest annual growth since 1944/1945, says StatCan, when it grew by 126,000.“The rapid changes in the population growth rate since 2020 are almost entirely attributable to changes in international migration,&r