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( Y6 z8 N" V3 X2 j/ k: S+ F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 \" [2 c7 `5 l7 N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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5 T& n/ u6 J% L; m8 J: xEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.$ \+ M3 z; B' C+ p
6 J9 h& ]) f5 DStatistics 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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; c" x8 V- j* rCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.
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6 @. v; c1 F1 h4 J/ O I1 Y+ qThe 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./ h( j5 I+ m0 Y1 i- W5 g) a
/ T; X, n+ `. ~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.
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"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."# W, `3 c+ s4 R9 b- C
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