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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。
W' Q5 m' p8 b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! 7 k5 l9 b3 }5 w8 J5 I: i( t; g
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2 `6 H. c" R6 p* WEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.& ]: D; ?5 ^! x0 K P0 I; N" V
% H6 q8 h, A9 K& u; BStatistics 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 2011.0 j# K4 {, I# R% _ k+ g$ ]
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The 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.
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Edmonton 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.. W4 K1 x6 H2 h2 j- R% O, Q1 ~
, B% x- F! B6 i) |1 o. G$ W7 Q. k( B"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." D+ g# I' I; Z- s$ ]/ O" ^9 ]
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