I don't believe it was mentioned in this thread, but for the first time ever, Canada reached a population of 40 million last month. 30 million was reached in 1997. That now makes Canada more populous than California, something that hasn't been true since 1982.
"Canada's population growth rate currently stands at 2.7 per cent. That's the highest annual growth rate since 1957, when Canada was in the middle of its post-war baby boom, says Statistics Canada."
"Canada's population grew by a record 1.05 million last year and about 96 per cent of the rise was due to international migration, the agency said."
https://twitter.com/StatCan_eng/status/1669780688969560064?s=20
Well, they still don't have the largest economy of an entity abbreviated "CA".
