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Between 1981 and 2017, Quebec lost 229,700 people below the age of 45 to interprovincial migration, according to a new report published by the Montreal Economic Institute.

“Over the last 35 years, there’s been a significant loss of people less than 45 years old,” said Marcel Boyer, the author of the report and a distinguished senior fellow at the MEI.

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While the number of people under 45 increased in Quebec between 2010 and 2017, the province is still losing people to interprovincial migration, and Boyer warns that if things don’t change, “we’re going to face significant social problems later on.”

The report comes as employers in Quebec increasingly say they’re facing a shortage of workers.

“There is a major problem here. We’re not addressing it sufficiently,” he said.

Between 1981 and 2010, the number of people under 15 in Quebec decreased by 177,300, a 12.6-per-cent decline, according to Boyer’s analysis of Statistics Canada data.