Northwest Territories Population 2024

Northwest Territories (abbreviated as NT or NWT), region of northern and northwestern Canada, borders Nunavut to the east, the provinces of Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia to the south, and Yukon to the west. According to statcan, Northwest Territories population in 2024 is estimated to be 44,893, ranks eleventh populous, Its area is 1,346,106 sq.km (519,734 sq mi), third in area rank. The creation in 1999 of the territory of Nunavut out of the eastern portion of the Northwest Territories reduced the area of the latter by more than half. Yukon was ceded from the Northwest Territories in 1898. Alberta and Saskatchewan were created from parts of the Northwest Territories in 1905. Yellowknife is the capital, most populous community, and only city in the territory, with population 19,569 as of the 2016 census, and other cities are Fort Simpson, Inuvik and Sachs Harbour.

According to 2016 census the population of Northwest territories is 41,786, around 324 people increased from 2011 census of 41,462 with the percentage change of 0.8. Average age of the population is 34.9 years and Median age of the population is 34 years. The age group from 0 to 14 years is 8,875, 15 to 64 years is 29,690, 65 years and over is 3,220 and 85 years and over is 225.

Ethnic groups in Northwest Territories

People up to third generation are officially termed as non-immigrants and thereon the people inflow is termed as immigrants. Below table indicates Northwest Territory Citizenship details:

Languages in Northwest Territories

The Northwest Territories region of Canada recognizes 11 official languages, nine official Aboriginal languages, as well as English and French through its Official Languages Act. Of these, nine belong to three different Indigenous language families: Dene-Athapaskan (Chipewyan, Gwich'in, North Slavey, South Slavey, and Tłı̨chǫ), Inuit (Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, and Inuvialuktun), and Algonquian (Cree).

Marital status for 2016 census of Northwest Territory was reported for each person as either married, widowed, divorced, separated, or never married. Individuals who were living together (unmarried people, people in common-law marriages) reported the marital status which they considered most appropriate. Northwest Territories population in 2023 is estimated to be 40,784, population in 2022 is estimated to be 40,927, Northwest Territories population in 2021 is estimated to be 41,070.

Income Distribution

10.66 percent of the Northwest population having an annual income of under $10,000, 21.65 percent having annual income between $10,000 to $39,000 representing the largest group, Moreover, some 8 percent had an annual income between 60,000 and 79,999 Canadian dollars, 18 percent of the NWT population had an annual income of 100,000 Canadian dollars or more.