For three straight years, Alberta has been the most popular destination, on net, for Canadian residents moving within the country, according to new data released Wednesday by Statistics Canada.

The influx of people from other provinces, along with a surge in babies being born and the arrival of new immigrants, has pushed Alberta's population over the five-million mark.

The province was home to 5,029,346 people as of July 1, according to the latest estimates from Statistics Canada.

Over the second quarter of 2025 (April through June), Alberta's population grew by roughly 0.4 per cent.

Canada's population grew by just 0.1 per cent over the same period. That marks the country's lowest second-quarter growth rate, outside of pandemic years, since 1946, when comparable record-keeping bega

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