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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。
4 S# c# r' B1 a2 t$ F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! + p9 e- F: Z+ Z/ m
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- W3 G$ C- L: {) h8 _, m/ ]Edmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth." x C8 g2 Y3 G8 R5 I. T
4 }2 o. [% I r' a8 |: C x6 m3 vStatistics 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.7 k, Y: K8 }1 g0 d! _% r' j
1 [/ @. z) B1 \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.' T) b1 B. Z9 W Q
4 W0 ?" h+ J, Y" }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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* F' F* q b& I) S"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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