B.C. population loss to other provinces in 2023

B.C. misplaced extra folks to interprovincial migration in 2023 than it gained for the primary time in additional than a decade, in response to figures from Statistics Canada.

The company says B.C. recorded a web lack of 8,624 folks in interprovincial migration final yr, one thing that hasn’t occurred since 2012.

Statistics present nearly 68,000 folks moved from B.C. to different areas in Canada, whereas near 60,000 folks got here to the province from elsewhere within the nation.

Statistics Canada says most of B.C.’s inhabitants loss was to Alberta, which figures present had the most important interprovincial inhabitants achieve final yr, with greater than 55,000 folks shifting in versus out.

The company says Alberta’s inhabitants achieve is the most important nationally because it started monitoring comparable information in 1972.

The report from StatCan says Alberta has been recording features in inhabitants from interprovincial migration since 2022, a reverse of the development seen from 2016 to 2021, when extra folks left the province than arrived from different components of Canada.