Despite limited population growth since the pandemic, Metro Vancouver planners project the region will have more than one million additional residents by 2050. 

According to new data shared with the Metro Vancouver board on Friday, planners project there will be 3.8 million people living in Metro Vancouver in the next 30 years — an average growth of 35,000 people per year.

Sean Galloway, the director of regional planning for Metro Vancouver, says the estimate is on par with previous projections, which only went