NNSL (OCT 07/96) - The territorial population reached 66,568 on July 1 - 747 more than on the same date last year.
In the days in between there were 1,630 births, 250 deaths and 633 more people who moved away from the NWT than who moved into the territory.
Also over that period, about 13 per cent of the entire population either moved to or from the NWT.
About 3,850 people moved into the territories, while 4,551 people moved away.
The 820 births across the NWT from January to June 1996 indicate this could be the year of the most births in the last five years.
If the trend continues, that means 1,640 babies will be born this year. In 1995 there 1,575 births, 1,580 in 1994 1,559 in 1993 and 1,554 in 1992.
From January to March this year 420 babies were born in the NWT. That made it the most prolific three-month period since July 1991. From January to March 1994 there were 417 births, the second most prolific period.
Since 1993, the population in the NWT has grown by almost 3,000. By comparison, over the same period Yukon's population grew only by 1,000.
Canada's population on July 1 was 29,963,631, up from 28,946,768 in 1993.