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Census 2016: P.E.I. region's most youthful province

P.E.I. has the most youthful population in Atlantic Canada, according to 2016 census results released Wednesday, but it is still considerably older than the population of Canada as a whole.

5,000 more seniors than children on the Island

Kevin Yarr · CBC News ·
P.E.I. has the highest population of under 14s in Atlantic Canada. (Stephanie Brown/CBC)

P.E.I. has the most youthful population in Atlantic Canada, according to 2016 census results released Wednesday, but it is still considerably older than the population of Canada as a whole.

The census figures show 15.9 per cent of Islanders are 14 or younger. No other Atlantic province had a percentage over 15 per cent.

Nationally the rate was 16.6 per cent.

While P.E.I. has a higher proportion of children, its proportion of seniors is about the same as the rest of the region, at just under 20 per cent.

The Island has 5,000 more people aged 65 or older than those aged 14 or younger,

Percentage of population by age
14 and younger 15-64 65 and older
Canada 16.6 66.5 16.9
Newfoundland and Labrador 14.3 66.2 19.4
P.E.I. 15.9 64.7 19.4
Nova Scotia 14.5 65.6 19.9
New Brunswick 14.8 65.3 19.9

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kevin Yarr

Web journalist

Kevin Yarr is the early morning web journalist at CBC P.E.I. Kevin has a specialty in data journalism, and how statistics relate to the changing lives of Islanders. He has a BSc and a BA from Dalhousie University, and studied journalism at Holland College in Charlottetown. You can reach him at kevin.yarr@cbc.ca.

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