Immigration will make Manitobans the youngest population in Canada
by Harleen Kaur - June 1, 2010
Canada, 1st June: Although Canada will witness a significant increase in the number of older citizens in the next 50 years time, however, Manitobans will be the youngest population on an average in Canada, a recent report by Statistics Canada has revealed.
The beginning of an ambitious program of immigration is being seen as the reason for helping Manitobans become the youngest of the Canadian population, the report by Statistics Canada, Manitoba maintains. There will be a huge increase in the number of kids of school going age, preschoolers and young adults between the year 2010 and 2036.
The Canadian province of Manitoba will see an increase in the number of seniors with almost all the baby boomers start collecting their pensions in old age. However, there is a ray of optimism for Manitoba since higher rates of fertility, mostly in immigrants, and to a lesser extent, in the First Nations communities, will help in keeping the population of Manitoba younger than the population of other provinces.
According to head of the Manitoba Bureau of Statistics, Wilf Falk, immigrants are quite younger than the current population.
Another fact that leads to making immigrants a younger lot than the native population of Canadian provinces is that nearly 80 percent of the new immigrants are under the age of 40 years and come from regions where people have comparatively greater number of kids.
These regions include the Philippines, the Middle East and Latin America.
In 2036, Manitoba is likely to have 113,100 children aged four and below while the present number of children in this age is 78,000. It is being projected by the Stats Canada that the seniors in the age group of 65 and 84 will grow from 144,000 to 293,800.
The total population of Manitoba, which was 1,222,000 in the year 2009, will increase by the year 2036 between 1,434,300 to 1,735,700 depending on the growth scenario of the Stats Canada selected by you.
The median age of Canada in the year 2009 was 39.5. But, it is likely to rise by the year 2036 to 43.6 under the medium-growth scenario. The Manitoba Bureau of Statistics revealed that the median age of population in Manitoba will be around 40.9 years. There will be a decline in the working-age population aged 15-64 years to 60 percent from nearly 70 percent at present.
»
- 904 reads
