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not reach that level until 1981. In recent decades, both territories have experienced continued
population growth fueled in part by migration and also from having high fertility because of their
younger age structures from having large migrant populations. The newly-formed territory of
Nunavut is also growing but because of the higher fertility of the predominantly indigenous
population as there has been steady out-migration from the region. With increased migration, the
share indigenous has declined and the entire Canadian North is now roughly half indigenous and
half non-indigenous.
Due to an increase in migration, Yukon had the highest population growth of any Canadi