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TABLE 2:

FIGURE 4:

Highlights:
Tab 2/Fig 4

TABLE 2
TRENDS OF NATURAL POPULATION INCREASES
British Columbia and Canada, 1950 - 2002

FIGURE 4
TRENDS OF NATURAL POPULATION INCREASES
British Columbia and Canada, 1950 - 2002

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HIGHLIGHTS TO TABLE 2/FIGURE 4

• In 2002, the 39,893 births and 29,686 deaths in the province produced a rate of natural population growth of 2.7 per 1,000 population. Immigration and emigration are not included in natural population growth rates.
  
  
• The pattern of natural population growth rates 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 2002 natural population growth rate for B.C. was the lowest since 1950, and the fifth 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.