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Tab 2/Fig 4
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- In 2000, the 40,467 births and 27,273 deaths in the province produced a rate of natural population growth of 3.2 per 1,000 population. Immigration and emigration are not included in natural population growth rates.
- The pattern of rates of natural population growth over the last five decades follows trends seen in the provincial birth rates. After high rates in the 1950s, natural population growth rates decreased rapidly in the 1960s as birth and death rates both declined. Since the mid 1980s, the small but steady decline in the natural population growth rate resulted from declining birth rates and relatively stable death rates. The 2000 rate of natural population growth for B.C. was the lowest since 1950, and the third 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 growth has been consistently below the Canadian rate each year.
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