HLTHAGE 1BB3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Dependency Ratio, List Of Sovereign States And Dependent Territories By Immigrant Population, Demographic Transition

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 1BB3
• Professor: Anju Joshi

Document Summary

Demographers study three conditions that affect a population"s size and structure: immigration, death rates, and birth rates which caused the canadian population to age from the mid 1800"s to the present. Immigration played the smallest part in the aging of canada"s population. Waves of immigration in the early 20th century brought new groups of young adults to canada. These young people helped keep canada"s population young at the start of this century. Immigration continued to add to canada"s population until the start of the great depression. These immigrants changed the face of canadian society. This same group of immigrants increased canada"s older population as they aged. In 2001 52% of all immigrants aged 65 and over had arrived in canada before 1961. Many older immigrants came to canada during world war 2 and the first years after the war. More immigrants in the oldest age groups leave canada than arrive.