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Methodological note

The population clock counts are based on Preliminary Postcensal Estimates as of July 1^st, 2007. The growth rate calculated for the year ending June 30th, 2007 is applied to this population and kept constant.

Actually, the clock's counter increases according to an annual growth rate of 1.000% as calculated from the following postcensal estimates:

July 1^st, 2006 Population: 32,649,482
July 1^st, 2007 Population: 32,976,026

 

As the July 1^st estimates are being released in October of the same year, the population clock is updated, once a year, during the week following the release of the estimates.

The population universe used for the population estimates is the 2001 Census of Canada universe. This universe, therefore, includes Canadian citizens and landed immigrants living in Canada (or abroad on a Canadian Forces base, attached to a diplomatic mission or aboard merchant vessels) and non-permanent residents. For a complete description of the last census population universe, refer to the 2001 Census Dictionary.