Canada Census 2011 For those that love numbers

Canada Census today’s released some very interesting numbers on the age of the Canadian population.

Canada has a total population of 33,476,690 broken down into three age groups 0-14, 15-64 and 65+.

For the whole of Canada 16.8% of the populations is between 0-14, 68.4% is between 15-64 and 14.8% is 65+ with the median age for the country being 41.5.

Alberta not surprisingly is younger than most of the rest of Canada the 0-14 represents 18.8% of the population the 15-64 group 70.1% and the 65+ is 11.1% with the median age for the province being 37.1.

On a local level how do we compare in the Crowsnest Pass, the 0-14 group sits at 12% the 15-64 is at 66% and the 65+ makes up 21% of our population with our median sitting at 51.3.