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The population of an area can increase in two ways only, by births and by immigration. Also it can decrease in two ways only, by deaths and by emigration. If there is no immigration or emigration, population changes in number either by growing according to the net natural increase, which is the excess of births over deaths, or by declining if deaths exceed births. Similarly, if there is no net natural increase, or decrease, population grows if there is a net in-migration, that is, if the number of immigrants exceeds the number of emigrants, or declines if there is a net out-migration.
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Nathan Keyfitz, “New Patterns in the Birth Hate”, in V. W. Bladen, ed., Canadian Population and Northern Colonization (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962), pp. 32–42.
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Camu, P., Weeks, E.P., Sametz, Z.W. (1968). The People. In: Blishen, B.R., Jones, F.E., Naegele, K.D., Porter, J. (eds) Canadian Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81601-9_2
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