Newborns helped to keep the City of Thunder Bay’s population from dropping more precipitously than it did between the census of 2011 and the census of 2016.
During that period the city population fell by 450, to just under 108,000 (although the Thunder Bay metropolitan population actually increased marginally.)
In roughly the same time span—2010 to 2015—the city’s birth rate significantly outpaced the death rate, thereby reversing a trend that was in place during the first part of the current decade.
Tbnewswatch.com obtained data for the decade between 2006 and 2015 from the office of Ontario’s Registrar General.
It shows that from 2010 to 2015, more births than deaths were registered in the city in each of those years to parents who listed Thunder Bay as their place of residence. This accounted for a natural population increase just shy of 1,000 people.
That pattern was a turnaround from the period between 2006 and 2009, when more deaths than births were registered each year, resulting in a natural population decrease of almost 500.
The Registrar General is still tabulating vital statistics for Ontario municipalities for the year 2016.
