page_title: Demographics of British Columbia
section_title: Interprovincial Migration
hierarchical_section_title: Demographics of British Columbia / Migration / Interprovincial Migration
caption_attribution_description: English: Number of Years each Provinces and Territories had with positive interprovincial immigration from 1971 to 2019. &#160;&#160; 0 years &#160;&#160; 1 to 5 years &#160;&#160; 6 to 10 years &#160;&#160; 11 to 15 years &#160;&#160; 16 to 20 years &#160;&#160; 21 to 25 years &#160;&#160; 26 to 30 years &#160;&#160; Over 31 years Note: Out of 48 years.
context_page_description: Population of British Columbia 5.071 million
  Percentage of National Population: 13.2%
  Population Growth Rate: 5.6%
context_section_description: British Columbia has also traditionally been gaining from interprovincial migration. Over the last 50 years, British Columbia had 12 years of negative interprovincial immigration: the lowest in the country. The only time the province significantly lost population to this phenomenon was during the 1990s, when it had a negative interprovincial migration for 5 consecutive years.
  Source: Statistics Canada
caption: Number of Years each Provinces and Territories had with positive interprovincial immigration since 1971
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