Canadian Demographic Overview - Anglo-Celtic Connections

Zooming out for an overview of BMD trends in Canada, as compiled by Anthropic’s Claude.

Annual rate per 1,000 people, averaged by decade — from the high-fertility, high-mortality years just after Confederation to a country where deaths now nearly outnumber births. Decade by decade, births and deaths fell together for a century as medicine, sanitation and smaller families spread.

Decade by decade

The early figures are shaky. Before 1921, Canada had no national system of civil registration. Everything from 1921 onward comes from Canada’s national vital statistics registration system and is considered reliable.

The sources: Statistics Canada, Historical Statistics of Canada; the 1990 Canada Year Book, “Components of population growth”; Statistics Canada’s 2022 crude-marriage-rate release; and Statistics Canada’s compiled annual vital-statistics series, 1900–2025.

Note: The AI systems Gemini and ChatGPT gave very similar results.

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Interesting chart!
My thinks Canadians need to rethink a few of their choices if they want to survive as a nation, eh?

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