New Brunswick Migration

Changes in population from migration and immigration

Positive international immigration overshadowed losses from interprovincial migration, resulting in a net increase of 1,855 people to New Brunswick’s population in the first quarter of 2025. This was a decrease of 67.7% from the first quarter of 2024.

Changes in population from movement within Canada

Some 3,807 people moved to New Brunswick from other provinces in the first quarter of 2025, down 16.8% from a year earlier. A total of 3,908 people left the province for elsewhere in Canada in the first quarter, an increase of 31.6% from the same period in 2024. The result was a net loss of 101 people from New Brunswick’s population in the first quarter. This was a reversal from the net gain of more than 1,600 people from the first quarter of 2024.

Changes in population from immigration

International immigration added 1,956 people to New Brunswick’s population in the first quarter of 2025. This was a decrease of 52.7% from the same period in 2024.

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