Alberta had the highest population growth in Q2 2025, despite the numbers falling. (Photo: Wellesenterprises | Dreamstime.com)

By David Opinko

Alberta’s population growth slowed in second quarter, but still highest in Canada

Sep 24, 2025 | 11:23 AM

Statistics Canada says growth in the country’s population slowed down over the last quarter, including in Alberta.

As of July 1, 2025, the province was home to 5,029,346 people. That is an increase of 19,268, or 0.4 per cent, over the previous three months.

Alberta had the biggest increase in population among all Canadian provinces, ahead of second-place Quebec, which saw an additional 17,174 residents.

Still, this marks the smallest single-quarter increase to Alberta’s population since the first quarter of 2022, a little over three years ago.

In 2023 and 2024, Alberta experienced gains in population greater than 45,000 in almost every quarter. The biggest was Q3 2023, where 63,597 residents were added.

International immigration was the biggest factor in the numbers falling over the last few quarters. The federal government has been decreasing the number of immigrants it will be admitting into the country for 2025-27.

There was a net increase of 7,720 immigrants to Alberta in Q2 2025, which is the lowest in the last four years.

Around 6,187 more Canadians moved to Alberta than Albertans went to other parts of the country.

Alberta also had a natural increase to its population of 5,361, which is the number of births minus the number of deaths.

Immigration accounted for 40 per cent of Alberta’s population increase, while interprovincial migration was 32 per cent, and the natural increase was 28 per cent.

Nationally, the Canadian population was 41,651,653 as of July 1, increasing by 47,098 (0.1 per cent).

An interactive dashboard showing population trends can be found below or on Statistics Canada.