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% }* P4 y" O$ Q% x4 @" A$ u统计表明最近五年(2006-2011)的人口增长率,卡尔加里12.6%,埃德蒙德12.1%,成为全加拿大人口增长最快的两个城市。
7 d9 _: Z1 i5 [' b1 D埃德蒙顿2011年人口已达81.2万。这个被我们昵称为屯子的地方,至少得改名叫“大屯子”了!
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" D. s. y7 {: K8 \1 o O1 v2 w) FEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.( A( L: ] V$ r0 L4 J
$ u' g# t h* V! L2 X$ RStatistics Canada reported Wednesday that Alberta's population increased at twice the national average, while results of the 2011 federal census showed the Edmonton area's population grew at a faster rate than any other metro region in Canada from 2006 to 2011, with the exception of Calgary.
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Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.
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. |/ K8 e0 K' `: D" _9 GThe capital region - including municipalities such as Beaumont, Spruce Grove and Fort Saskatchewan - grew from slightly more than a million people in 2006 to nearly 1.2 million people in 2011. That's a 12percent increase in the five-year span measured by the census., A3 b) }. ^ o8 g' K
; x% w& O4 w2 Y5 \& U5 @0 OEdmonton alone added nearly 82,000 people in that time, bringing the population to 812,200. Originally, the city's chief economist John Rose thought Edmonton might see a slight slowdown from the impressive 9.6-per-cent growth it reported in the 2006 census. Instead, he said, strong job numbers in the past year helped push it to 11.2 per cent.
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& p6 D$ P3 `: O5 j4 M"What we have here is a very good news story," Rose said. "It suggests the City of Edmonton is no longer just a place you go to for a job, work that job for a few years and then you go on to something else when the boom is over.": b! Y7 }5 Z4 H* _, ^2 G t
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