Definitions
This term refers to the number of births recorded each year for every 1,000 people.
What is the Birth Rate?
In 1960, with the baby boom in "full swing," Canada saw a record 479,000 _______.
What are births?
Statistics Canada predicts that Canada’s overall growth rate will actually become this by the year 2030.
What is negative?
This is calculated by finding the difference between the birth rate and the death rate.
What is the Rate of Natural Increase?
In 2005, Canada had a positive ________ of 112,000 because there were more births than deaths.
What is natural increase?
Based on the "medium growth scenario," this 5-year window is when negative natural increase is projected to begin.
What is 2026–2030?
This is the difference between the number of people immigrating to Canada and those emigrating from it.
What is Net Migration?
Between 1921 and 2006, Canada's death rate _______
What is dropped?
In the 2051 to 2061 projection, this specific type of increase is expected to be the only driver keeping Canada's total growth positive.
What is migratory increase?
When the number of deaths in a country exceeds the number of births, the rate of natural increase is described as this.
What is negative?
The total________ in Canada peaked at nearly 4.0 children per woman during the 1950s.
What is fertility rate?
Projections show that after 2030, the number of these will consistently exceed the number of births.
What are deaths?
In Canada and other countries of this type, the birth rate is generally "fairly low."
What is a developed country?
Between 1950 and 2010, the _________dropped from 27.8 to 10.8
What is Birth Rate?
While natural increase is declining, this component of population growth has historically peaked during periods like 1901–1911 and 1951–1961.
What is migratory increase?