`Tec­tonic shift’ in immig­ra­tion is decreas­ing city’s pop­u­la­tion

Van­couver’s pop­u­la­tion shrank by more than 8,000 people from 2024 to 2025, the largest decrease going back more than 20 years, B.C. Stats fig­ures show.

The only other decrease in pop­u­la­tion dur­ing this time was in 2021, when it fell by around 5,000, which was attrib­uted to COVID-19.

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