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As the economy continues to sputter, Alberta again saw more people leave the province than move here, a reversal of the province’s boom years.

It’s the fourth consecutive quarter that Statistics Canada’s population numbers have shown a net outflow. The population figures show that about 22,000 people left Alberta and about 18,000 people arrived in the province, for a net loss of almost 4,000 people in the last quarter. Year to date, there has been a net loss of 8,335 people in Alberta in the past four quarters.

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While people may be moving to other provinces, industrious Albertans have managed to keep the population growing by posting the highest birth rate in the country.

“Births over deaths was nearly 10,000 this last quarter. So despite the fact that we’re a slightly smaller province that’s substantially higher than B.C., it’s almost triple the rate in B.C.,” said Trevor Tombe, an economist at the University of Calgary.