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本帖最后由 青萝 于 2012-2-9 21:35 编辑 2 I1 {* g' P1 M: A6 s5 A0 A
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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。0 z2 ^' i7 P) w! j* ? V
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！ 4 Y9 r- [0 k n! l3 a; \
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2 [% ~6 M; ?( d/ S) wEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth./ V/ a2 }! ?+ u) n
! N- L4 h3 B3 r- ~& U) h6 `& B2 _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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Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.
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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., _7 Q0 b( J9 |3 z5 Y' h
4 l7 F: `3 X* z8 x! M0 c+ v9 L+ c"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." [9 R S8 e4 q+ t7 i
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