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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。7 J& A3 _8 P! U. ^4 m* F7 |
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! , p% r2 {: V% p! W6 y' ]9 Q
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3 L* s7 C6 T6 q" z* ?( MEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.: E+ C6 _5 H: Q# U# j$ @
, m# e; K$ o! s" J7 D6 mStatistics 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." C$ k' l5 a+ a" J7 [) [7 f, F+ ]- Z/ c
" T$ J0 }6 w2 h0 z, x% Y' I8 p1 GCanada'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.
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8 u3 P, b# F( W2 a# o"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."& ]( r) n ?5 t
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