Excerpts from The Daily article:
Canadian women gave birth to 367,864 babies in Canada in 2007, up 13,247 or 3.7% from 2006 and the fastest annual increase since 1989.
The number of births rose in all age groups, particularly among mothers aged 30 to 34, and in every province and territory, except Prince Edward Island and Yukon.
The total fertility rate, or the average number of children per woman, increased from 1.59 in 2006 to 1.66 in 2007.
While this was the highest total fertility rate since 1992, it remained well below replacement level of 2.1 children per woman. This is the fertility rate that must be maintained to replace the population in the absence of migration.
This upward trend is not unique to Canada. In recent years, other countries with low fertility rates (such as Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and Australia) also experienced an increase in their total fertility rate.
The number of babies born in 2007 was the highest since 1995 and the fifth consecutive annual increase.
-reprinted from Statistics Canada