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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。
. Q4 }% i! w- E8 k- {+ U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 G% j; V/ z! J/ u ?5 j) v) MEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.
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/ ?3 a Z8 O7 |Statistics 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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6 x6 s# t) g6 NCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.% p4 Z' R; B0 p' w7 x
! Z9 ?0 r% |" c$ [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.2 V) y- \: l! y, P
) M V2 c0 n7 h3 E( d: \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.: @) {! }) ~) b/ @1 h
# F5 N1 I4 ^) |9 G' p; n"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."
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