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PEI Population Report Quarterly

Date de publication: Juin 18, 2025
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Population Report, First Quarter 2025

DIAGRAM 1: PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND POPULATION, QUARTERLY, 2020 - 2025

Chart showing PEI population from July 2020 to April 2025.

On June 18, 2025 Statistics Canada published its provincial population estimates for the first quarter of 2025. The data shows Prince Edward Island’s population was estimated to be 180,029 as of April 1, 2025. This represents a yearly increase of 2,711 people or a 1.5 percent annual growth rate. This is the fifth highest year-over-year growth rate among provinces and territories, behind Alberta (2.9%), Nunavut (1.8%), Saskatchewan (1.7%), and Yukon (1.6%). PEI’s year-over-year population growth has slowed in each of the past six quarters, after reaching an all-time high of 4.0 percent during the third quarter of 2023.

Canada’s population increased by 510,417 people year-over-year to reach 41,548,787 as of April 1, 2025, an increase of 1.2 percent over one year ago.

The quarterly estimates since January 1, 2023 and growth rates for Canada and Prince Edward Island can be seen in Table 1.

TABLE 1: NATIONAL AND PROVINCIAL POPULATION & GROWTH RATES, QUARTERLY

  Canada Prince Edward Island
Quarter Population Growth rate (%) Population Growth rate (%)
January 1, 2023 39,527,986 0.6 170,077 0.6
April 1, 2023 39,748,878 0.6 171,856 1.0
July 1, 2023 40,083,484 0.8 173,713 1.1
October 1, 2023 40,513,781 1.1 175,871 1.2
January 1, 2024 40,784,356 0.7 176,318 0.3
April 1, 2024 41,038,370 0.6 177,318 0.6
July 1, 2024 41,288,599 0.6 178,550 0.7
October 1, 2024 41,465,298 0.4 179,301 0.4
January 1, 2025 41,528,680 0.2 179,280 0.0
April 1, 2025 41,548,787 0.0 180,029 0.4

All jurisdictions saw a year-over-year population increase April 1, 2025 compared to April 1, 2024. Population estimates for April 1, 2024 and 2025 for all provinces and territories are shown in Table 2 below. The population growth rates and level change for the twelve-month period ending March 31, 2025 are also included.

TABLE 2: POPULATION OF PROVINCES & TERRITORIES, APRIL 1, 2024, 2025 & ANNUAL GROWTH RATES

  April 1, 2024 April 1, 2025 Growth Level
Canada 41,038,370 41,548,787 1.2% 510,417
Newfoundland and Labrador 543,141 545,464 0.4% 2,323
Prince Edward Island 177,318 180,029 1.5% 2,711
Nova Scotia 1,071,498 1,080,418 0.8% 8,920
New Brunswick 849,168 859,839 1.3% 10,671
Quebec 9,003,338 9,110,616 1.2% 107,278
Ontario 16,033,583 16,176,977 0.9% 143,394
Manitoba 1,485,955 1,507,330 1.4% 21,375
Saskatchewan 1,233,068 1,253,569 1.7% 20,501
Alberta 4,842,523 4,980,659 2.9% 138,136
British Columbia 5,666,888 5,719,961 0.9% 53,073
Yukon 46,353 47,111 1.6% 758
Northwest Territories 44,686 45,242 1.2% 556
Nunavet 40,851 41,572 1.8% 721

Components of Growth

The total increase in PEI’s population during the first quarter of 2025 (January 1, 2025 to March 31, 2025) was 749 people.

Natural Increase

There were 383 births and 450 deaths on Prince Edward Island from January 1, 2025 to March 31, 2025, resulting in natural growth (births minus deaths) of -67. Deaths have outpaced births in each quarter since the third quarter of 2021.

International Migration

During first quarter 2025, 815 international immigrants came to the province. At a rate of 4.5 per thousand1, the province had the second highest quarterly immigration rate in the country, behind Yukon at 5.1 per thousand. The immigration rate for Canada was 2.5 per thousand.

Total net international migration was estimated to be +318 people during the first quarter of 2025. This consisted of the aforementioned 815 international immigrants plus 609 non-permanent residents (NPRs)2 and 19 returning Canadians entering the province, while 1,074 NPRs and 51 international emigrants left the province. Net international migration for PEI over the last 12-month period (April 2024 to March 2025) was 2,676. This compares to 5,451 over the previous 12-month period.

It was estimated that 609 non-permanent residents came to PEI during the first quarter of 2025, while 1,074 NPRs left the province for a net change of -465, or -6.3 percent. As of April 1, 2025, there were 10,685 NPRs on PEI consisting of 5,659 work permit holders, 3,640 study permit holders, 884 with both work and study permits, 372 other permit holders, and 130 asylum claimants. The number of study permit holders has declined 13.1 percent since April 1, 2024, while the number of work permit holders dropped 2.5 percent over the same period.

Inter-provincial Migration

A total of 1,327 inter-provincial migrants came to PEI during the first quarter of 2025, while 829 people left the province for other areas of Canada, for a net interprovincial gain of 498. This compares to a net gain of 69 people over the same period in 2024. As shown in Table 3, the primary source of PEI’s inter-provincial in-migrants during this period was from Ontario, followed by Quebec and New Brunswick. The main destinations of out-migrants from Prince Edward Island were Ontario, New Brunswick, and Alberta. Ontario gained the most from inter-provincial migration, with 32.3 percent of all interprovincial migrants from other provinces destined for Ontario.

TABLE 3: ORIGIN & DESTINATION OF INTER-PROVINCIAL MIGRANTS, JANUARY 1, 2025 TO MARCH 31, 2025

  DESTINATION
ORIGIN N.L. P.E.I. N.S. N.B. Que. Ont. Man. Sask. Alta. B.C. Y.T. N.W.T. Nvt.
N.L. 0 15 317 68 79 541 47 51 384 163 0 6 10
P.E.I. 45 0 89 151 67 251 0 16 138 72 0 0 0
N.S. 165 125 0 592 239 1,689 83 96 684 315 0 32 57
N.B. 142 128 782 0 739 1,145 124 66 499 228 0 36 19
Que. 88 291 162 328 0 4,682 137 64 705 559 48 18 18
Ont. 763 565 2,113 1,659 3,573 0 1,791 1,285 7,342 4,429 84 72 101
Man. 49 63 40 131 238 1,110 0 489 1,213 824 19 5 65
Sask. 22 0 53 41 79 1,087 537 0 2,743 731 0 20 12
Alta. 323 100 523 466 380 3,768 696 2,165 0 5,334 120 208 76
B.C. 96 18 373 321 610 3,969 800 902 7,217 0 101 87 61
Y.T. 0 6 0 15 21 106 12 27 146 164 0 52 0
N.W.T. 66 10 48 31 19 18 29 12 226 47 23 0 28
Nvt. 0 6 8 4 56 174 96 0 38 53 4 29 0
  N.L. P.E.I. N.S. N.B. Que. Ont. Man. Sask. Alta. B.C. Y.T. N.W.T. Nvt.
IN 1,759 1,327 4,508 3,807 6,100 18,540 4,352 5,173 21,335 12,919 399 565 447
OUT 1,681 829 4,077 3,908 7,100 23,777 4,246 5,325 14,159 14,555 549 557 468
NET 78 498 431 -101 -1,000 -5,237 106 -152 7,176 -1,636 -150 8 -21

Prince Edward Island quarterly components of growth from October 1, 2022 to April 1, 2025 can be seen in table 4.

TABLE 4: PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND QUARTERLY POPULATION AND COMPONENTS OF GROWTH OCTOBER 1 2022 – APRIL 1 2025

Quarter Population (+) Births (-) Deaths (+) Immigrants (+) Other International* (+) Interprovincial In-Migration (-) Interprovincial Out-Migration
October 1, 2022 169,032 320 429 313 425 1,220 804
January 1, 2023 170,077 338 429 1,274 -122 1,838 1,120
April 1, 2023 171,856 292 375 694 753 1,918 1,425
July 1, 2023 173,713 365 422 826 1,427 1,088 1,126
October 1, 2023 175,871 341 443 824 -85 643 833
January 1, 2024 176,318 363 444 1,330 -318 1,203 1,134
April 1, 2024 177,318 310 388 1,169 -100 1,644 1,403
July 1, 2024 178,550 387 434 977 42 825 1,046
October 1, 2024 179,301 357 450 505 -235 440 638
January 1, 2025 179,280 383 450 815 -497 1,327 829
April 1, 2025 180,029  

DIAGRAM 2: PEI COMPONENTS OF GROWTH JANUARY 1 2025 – MARCH 31 2025

Chart showing PEI's components of population change for the first quarter of 2025

Related downloads for this release:

PEI Population Report Quarterly PDF (179KB)

Notes:

These are preliminary data that will be revised over the coming year.

These estimates are based on 2021 Census of Population counts, adjusted for census net undercoverage and incompletely enumerated Indian reserves. To these counts, the population growth estimates for the period from May 11, 2021, to the date of the estimate are added.

1 Immigration rates are calculated by the PEI Statistics Bureau based on Statistics Canada population estimates.

2 NPRs include foreign workers, foreign students, the humanitarian population and other temporary residents. The humanitarian population includes refugee claimants and temporary residents who are allowed to remain in Canada on humanitarian grounds and are not categorized as either foreign workers or foreign students.

Source: Statistics Canada

Table 17-10-0009-01, Estimates of population, Canada, provinces and territories, quarterly

Table 17-10-0040-01, International migration components, Canada, provinces and territories, quarterly

Table 17-10-0020-01, Interprovincial migrants, Canada, provinces and territories, quarterly

Table 17-10-0045-01, Estimates of interprovincial migrants by province or territory of origin and destination, quarterly

Table 17-10-0059-01, Estimates of the components of natural increase, Canada, provinces and territories, quarterly

Table 17-10-0121-01, Estimates of the number of non-permanent residents by type, quarterly

Prepared by  PEI Statistics Bureau

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