Canada’s population in 1956:
16 million.
Number of Tim Hortons restaurants
in 1956: 0.
Number of Tim Hortons restaurants
in 1964: 1.
Number of Tim Hortons restaurants
as of December 14, 2006: 3,000.
Population of Canada, 2006:
31,612,897.
Population of NWT, 2006: 41,464.
Population of NWT, 2001: 37,360.
Percentage change: 11.
Population of Nunavut, 2006: 29,474.
Population of Nunavut, 2001: 26,745.
Percentage change: 10.2.
Population of the Yukon, 2006:
30,372.
Population of the Yukon, 2001:
28,674.
Percentage change: 5.9.
Canada’s population growth from
2001-2006, as a percentage: 5.4.
US Population increase from 2001-
2006, as a percentage: 5.
UK population increase from 2001-
2006, as a percentage: 1.9.
Germany’s: 0.
Total population of Canada’s six,
million-plus cities — Toronto,
Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa-
Gatineau, Calgary and Edmonton:
13.6 million.
Relative size of the six biggest cities
as a percentage of Canada’s popula
tion: 45.
Number of Canadians living in cities:
25 million.
Percentage of national population:
79.
Canada’s rural population: 6 million.
Percentage of national population:
18.
World population as of July, 2005:
6.5 billion.
Global urban population:
3.15 billion.
Percentage: 48 per cent.
Global rural population: 3.31 billion.
Percentage: 51 per cent.
Population of the developed world:
1.2 billion.
Population of the world’s
less-developed regions: 5.3 billion.
Annual global population growth:
76 million.
Daily: 208,219.
Hourly: 8,675.
Since you started reading this: 72.
Estimated population of the world
in 2050: 9.1 billion.
Estimated population of the
developed world, 2050: 1.2 billion.
Percentage change from today: 0.
Estimated population of the less-
developed world, 2050: 7.8 billion.
Percentage change from today: 27.
Average global life expectancy,
1950-1955: 46.
Average global life expectancy,
2000-2005: 65.
Average global life expectancy,
2045-2050: 75.
Average life expectancy in Eastern
Europe 2000-2005: 66.6 years.
Average life expectancy in Eastern
Europe 1955-1960: 67.2 years.
Number of years since the discovery
of the HIV epidemic: 26.
Estimated number of people killed
by the disease, worldwide, since
1981: 25 million.
Estimated number of people killed
by the disease in 2005: 2.9 million.
Number of nations crippled by the
epidemic: 60.
Estimated use of contraceptives by
women of reproductive age, world
wide, in 2005, as a percentage: 61.
In developed countries: 69.
In undeveloped countries: 59.
In the Caribbean: 72.
In Africa: 27.
Average life expectancy in southern
Africa in 1990-1995: 62 years.
Average life expectancy in southern
Africa in 2000-2005: 48 years.
Figures gathered from the UN and
Statistics Canada (R.M.)