Geoff Smith <geoffs@interchange.ubc.ca> wrote:
>Last time I checked, Canada had a little under 28 milion people
<snip>
>Canada's birth replacement rate per couple is around 1.2, and even with
>immigration it's still around 1.8, not enough to even sustain the
>current population!
Taking a page from Harvey Newstrom's book and consulting the CIA World
Factbook
(Now I find this a highly credible source because they are in the business
of building credibility in areas where it doesn't count so they can lie
effectively, and stand some chance of being believed, when it does.), which
states re Canada:
>Population: 31,006,347 (July 1999 est.)
>
>Age structure:
>0-14 years: 20% (male 3,105,944; female 2,960,171)
>15-64 years: 68% (male 10,587,553; female 10,461,455)
>65 years and over: 12% (male 1,652,044; female 2,239,180) (1999 est.)
>
>Population growth rate: 1.06% (1999 est.)
>
>Birth rate: 11.86 births/1,000 population (1999 est.)
>
>Death rate: 7.26 deaths/1,000 population (1999 est.)
>
>Net migration rate: 5.96 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1999 est.)
>
>Sex ratio:
>at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
>under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
>15-64 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
>65 years and over: 0.74 male(s)/female
>total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (1999 est.)
>
>Infant mortality rate: 5.47 deaths/1,000 live births (1999 est.)
>
>Life expectancy at birth:
>total population: 79.37 years
>male: 76.12 years
>female: 82.79 years (1999 est.)
>
>Total fertility rate: 1.65 children born/woman (1999 est.)
Best, Jeff Davis
"Everything's hard till you know how to do it." Ray Charles