World population/Canada
North America
Population of Canada
40,467,724
Growing by 0.01 people every second
#38
world rank
0.49%
of world population
+0.78%
yearly change
+314,508
people this year
361,315
births a year
331,402
deaths a year
How the figure for Canada is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Canada at 40,467,724 on 1 July 2026, and projects 40,782,232 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.01 people added every second.
That places Canada at number 38 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.49 per cent of everyone alive, and among the largest of the 41 entries in North America.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 361,315 births and 331,402 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in North America
Ranked by population.