The rush of people moving to New Brunswick from other provinces has slowed down to a trickle, with international immigration continuing to lead as a source of population growth.
New Brunswick gained 40,000 permanent immigrants since 2021, Statistics Canada estimates
Hadeel Ibrahim · CBC
· Posted: Jan 09, 2025 5:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 9 hours ago
New Brunswick’s population has risen by an estimated 72,400 since January 2021. (CBC)
The rush of people moving to New Brunswick from other provinces has slowed down to a trickle, with international immigration continuing to lead as a source of population growth.
Since the pandemic, more people have moved to New Brunswick from other provinces than internationally, but international immigration continues to increase, while interprovincial migration is returning to pre-pandemic levels.
As a whole, New Brunswick gained about 72,400 people since January 2021.
Interprovincial migration — people moving to New Brunswick from other provinces such as Ontario and Alberta — did spike in 2020 and 2021. But Statistics Canada estimates show that New Brunswick is returning to the trend of more people moving out, than in.
Estimates show the province has lost more than 70 per cent of people it gained from interprovincial migration since 2021.
About 65,500 people have moved to New Brunswick from other provinces — the majority from Ontario — since January 2021,
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