https://www.sciencenews.org/article/world-population-8-billion-humans-earth
The ongoing question is, how many more people can the world accommodate? Some countries want to absorb very little of the world's population. In some cases that's because they already have a significant growing population. Immigration_to_Japan has always been heavily controlled, as is the case with immigration_to_Switzerland as well. Both countries have great population density, but also have their low populated mountainous and rural areas. Canada could have the best of both worlds. Great urban density, while retaining plenty of wilderness, parks and farmland.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-new-housing-population-statistics
Even though Canada is the 2nd largest county in area, it still has less than half of 1% of the world's population, as of late 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-population-reaches-8-billion
https://www.un.org/en/desa/world-population-reach-8-billion-15-november-2022
https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20221115/world-population-reaches-8-billion-as-growth-slows
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20221115-world-population-hits-8-billion-un-says
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/8-billion-global-population-1.6646018
When the world's' population reached 8 billion, Canada didn't even have 80 million people. Indeed, Canada won't even have 40 million people in 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada#Demographics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area#Map Of the worlds 6 largest countries, Canada has less people than California and Australia has fewer people than Texas.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualized-the-worlds-population-at-8-billion/
