Quebec welcomed 50,300 permanent immigrants in 2021 and this wandering has been accentuated since the beginning of 2022. Result: this year, population growth will slightly exceed the levels observed before the COVID-19 pandemic.
These figures are taken from the 2022 edition of the demographic report of Quebec published Thursday by the Institute of statistics of Quebec.
Life expectancy, which had experienced a significant drop in 2020, also returned to its pre-pandemic level to stand at 84.9 years for women and 81.1 years for men in 2021.
On the other hand, after the upturn in 2021, excess mortality – the difference between the number of deaths observed and those expected in normal times – is on the rise in 2022, in particular due to the Omicron wave in January.
For the period from March 2020 to mid-September 2022, the Institute estimates that excess mortality […] was 4.4% in Quebec.
“Quebec is nevertheless one of the places where deaths have increased the weakest since the start of the pandemic, can we read. The record of excess mortality in the United States is, on the contrary, one of the heaviest of OECD countries. That of the rest of Canada, initially lower than that of Quebec, gradually approached and even surpassed it in 2021.
As for births, they returned to the pre-pandemic level in 2021, but there is a downward trend in 2022.
Marriages remain significantly fewer than before the pandemic, i.e. 14,700 in 2021, compared to between 22,000 and 23,500 before the pandemic.