OTTAWA
Statistics Canada says the country posted its highest annual population growth rate in more than six decades last year
The agency says the population grew 3.2 per cent, its fastest pace since 1957 when it grew 3.3 per cent
The increase brought the population to 40,769,890 on Jan. 1, 2024
The total was up by 1,271,872 people compared with the start of 2023
Statistics Canada says most of the growth was due to temporary immigration last year
Without temporary immigration, it says Canada’s population growth rate would have been 1.2 per cent
