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The dashboard shows the proportion of the total population by broad age group, the proportion of centenarians, the distribution of the population by age and gender, the average age, the number of people aged 15 to 64 per person aged 65 years and older and the number of men+ per women+ by age group.
- Median Age
Estimated number of persons on July 1, by 5-year age groups...
- Analysis: Population by age and sex
More than one in two baby boomers are aged 65 and older....
- Median Age
More than one in two baby boomers are aged 65 and older. Canada has just over one child or older person for every two working-age people. The number of people aged 55 to 64 compared with youth aged 15 to 24 dropped lately, due to high international migration. The demographic dependency ratio varies from one province and territory to another.
In Canada’s eastern and central provinces and in British Columbia, the proportion of people 65 years and older was higher than the proportion of children aged 0 to 14 years on July 1, 2021. However, the Prairie provinces and the territories showed the reverse, with higher proportions of children aged 0 to 14 than people 65 years and older.
Sep 25, 2024 · Estimated number of persons on July 1, by 5-year age groups and gender, and median age, for Canada, provinces and territories.
- Introduction
- Fast Growth of The Millennial Generation
- Looking Ahead: A Closer Look at The Characteristics of Generations
- Additional Information
- Acknowledgements
The Canadian population is made up of various generations of different sizes, and each influences society according to their world view, characteristics, values and stage in their life cycle. Given that the baby boomer generation is getting older and currently transitioning from the labour force to retirement, their needs are different today. For e...
Millennials, or people aged 25 to 40, represent the fastest-growing population. The number of people in this generation increased 8.6% between 2016 and 2021, compared with 5.2% for the overall population, thanks to higher rates of immigration among the millennial generation compared to other generations. The 2021 Census counted 7,926,575 millennial...
The next releases of the 2021 Census of Population data will update the sociodemographic portrait of the different generations in Canada. What are the emerging health care needs of older generations? How is the diversity of the Canadian population reflected within the different generations? What challenges in terms of access to housing do younger g...
Additional analysis on age, gender, and type of dwellings can be found in the Daily article entitled “In the midst of high job vacancies and historically low unemployment, Canada faces record retirements from an aging labour force: number of seniors aged 65 and older grows six times faster than children 0-14” and in the Census in Brief article enti...
This report was prepared by Arnaud Bouchard-Santerre, Julien Bérard-Chagnon and Laurent Martel of Statistics Canada’s Centre for Demography, with the assistance of other staff members in that centre and the collaboration of staff members of the Census Subject Matter Secretariat, Census Operations Division, Communications Branch and Data Access and ...
Feb 23, 2022 · The average life expectancy is 79.8 years for men and 83.9 years for women. Based on a medium-growth projection, Canada's population proportion aged 65 and older is expected to grow from 18% in 2020 to 22.5% in 2030 and 23.6% in 2040.
Population ages 65 and above, total - Canada. World Bank staff estimates using the World Bank's total population and age/sex distributions of the United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2022 Revision.
