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HIGHLIGHTS TO TABLE 2/FIGURE 4
- In 1999, the 41,739 births and 27,794 deaths in the province produced a rate of natural population increase of 3.5 per 1,000 population. Immigration and emigration are not included in natural population increase rates.
- The pattern of rates of natural population increase over the last five decades follows trends set in the provincial crude birth rates. After high rates in the 1950s, natural population growth rates decreased rapidly in the 1960s as birth rates and death rates both declined. Since the mid 1980s, the small but steady decline in the natural population growth rate resulted from the declining birth rate and relatively stable death rates. The 1999 rate of natural population increase for B.C. was the lowest since 1950, and the second year in a row with a rate below 4.0 per 1,000 population. Except for four years from 1981 to 1984, the B.C. rate of natural population increase has been consistently below the Canadian rate each year.
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