Happy Belated and Sparsely Populated Canada Day

Stumbled upon a cool population statistics site (yes I know, I did use those words in the same phrase) called Geohive.

Some interesting stats on how Canada stacks up against the rest of the world:

Category/ Measure/ Rank in the world/ Other Notables

Population
- 33,321,679 people (37th)
- China #1, India #2,  US #3, Mexico #11

Pop. Growth   
+755 people added today  (50th)
- India #1, China #2, Nigeria #3, US #4, Ger. #222

Density/Km 
- 3.3  people/sq. km   (180th)   
Macao #1, Monaco #2,  Singapore #3, US #164, Greenland #228

Given no other intervention, we're likely to slip down the rankings to be the  42nd most populous country by the year 2050 with 42.7 million people, but are only part of 3 countries of the G8 that are even growing their population. Read declining population in Europe article.

Population of Canada's top 6 metro areas comprises 44.6% of the population, in the US, the top 6 metros comprise 19.6% of the population (buy why does everybody root for the Yankees, I ask). Canada has 6 cities above 1 million people, Australia has 5 cities, France has 4 cities above 1 mil and the U.S. has 50 cities with populations above 1 million people.

On an environmental footprint standpoint,  with an average of 13.1 people per square kilometre, each of us could lay fairly to a stake of 76,000 square metres each. Sounds like a lot, but when you have to add in where we get our food, where we grow our trees, where we play our trade, produce our stuff and subtract out places we just can't live (est. 505), it 's getting awfully crowded out there, isn't it?