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Originally Posted by lio45
Montreal is adding more people per year than Vancouver, in other words the population gap between the two is increasing every passing year. i.e. Montreal is growing and leaving Vancouver behind.
Growth rates are medieval thinking; I guess our homo sapiens brains are basically wired to assume that everyone stays their entire life in the same village in which they were born and population growth only comes from the rate at which the locals are having babies.
The only useful use of growth rate these days (in a country like Canada) is to measure approximate infrastructure strain.
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Yes, the gap is increasing, albeit slightly. In 2011, the gap was roughly 1.5M and now it's roughly 1.6M.
In demographically mature countries, growth rates tend to fall off as cities become larger. They still add lots of people, just less relative to their larger size.
Exactly what we observe in this case - Montreal with a higher popultion and lower growth rate is adding more people than Vancouver, in typical years (non-Covid).
Vancouver has now reached 1991 Montreal population levels while Montreal has reached 2001 Toronto population levels.
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