REAL WDI EVIDENCE · VERIFIED VINTAGE COMPARISON
Canada's published 2023 population estimate decreased between two 2025 WDI releases.
A reproducible comparison of official archived World Development Indicators releases.
28 Jan 2025
40,097,761
people
2 Jul 2025
40,083,484
people
Revision
-0.0356%
-14,277 people
What changed?
The value published for Canada's 2023 population changed by -14,277 people (-0.0356%) between the two archived releases. This is a revision of a published estimate, not population growth between January and July 2025.
Provenance
Indicator: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) · Archived series name verified in both releases: Population, total · Archived country identity verified in both releases: Canada (CAN) · Unit: people · Reference year: 2023 · Finding type: DOWNWARD_REVISION · Methodology gate: wdi-population-estimates-2024-note-v1. Regional aggregates are excluded. Source license: CC BY 4.0. Archive fingerprints: Jan 7ff8c66e5a07… · Jul b33fef211eee…; exact hashes, archived country/series names and archive members are included in JSON/CSV.