Saskatchewan is poised to become a bigger part of the Canadian population base.
StatsCanada has issued a projection of how it sees population growth and shifts in the country over the next 50 years. It sees Ontario and Quebec holding their positions as the most populace provinces but it projects Alberta will push BC out of third place while Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Quebec would see their demographic weight decline.
It also sees the demographic weight of the three Prairie provinces growing in all of its scenarios ranging from slow to high growth.
These projections feature wide ranges. Nationally, Canada could grow by 3 million to 44 million in 50 years or by 35 million to 75 million in 2075.
In the next 25 years, the projections see Saskatchewan’s population reaching 1.388 million under its lowest growth scenario. That is roughly 150,000 ahead of where we are today. But in its highest growth projection, Saskatchewan’s head count would rise to 1.788 million. That’s an increase of 400,000 or roughly one-third higher than where we sit today.
