Posted Jan 2, 2019, 5:16 AM
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Originally Posted by roger1818
The city's own website says the population in 2016 was 934,243 (ref). It also says the growth rate over the previous 5 years was 5.8%, which works out to 1.134% per year (compounded annually). To get to a population of 1 million, it would require a growth of 7.039%, so that works out to just over 6 years from 2016, so 2022 (assuming population growth remains constant).
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Those are the census numbers. The City of Ottawa calculates population differently. The city's population numbers are always higher than the census.
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