bc_population

Population of a B.C. region by year from BC Stats' sub-provincial estimates (July 1, back to 2001 for municipalities and regional districts, 1971 for development regions and 1976 for the other region types) and projections (to 2046): the total and, with age_bands, five-year age bands, for the total, female or male population. Region types: municipality, regional district, development region, health authority, health service delivery area, school district, college region, children and family development region (code 0 is the province in every file). Pick an area_type, then an area by name words or code, a year or range, and estimate or projection. Estimates are not census counts; projections are one scenario. Not income, households or Indigenous population (separate BC Stats files), and not community health service areas, local health areas or school trustee areas.

Cost: 2 units of your allowance (see Rate limits).

ParametersCopy Anchor Link

• area_type (regional_district, municipality, development_region, health_authority, health_service_delivery_area, school_district, college_region, cfd_region, optional): default "municipality"
• area (string, optional): min length 1, max length 60
• area_code (string, optional)
• year (integer, optional): min 1971, max 2100
• year_from (integer, optional): min 1971, max 2100
• year_to (integer, optional): min 1971, max 2100
• kind (estimate, projection, optional)
• gender (total, female, male, optional): default "total"
• age_bands (boolean, optional): default false
• limit (integer, optional): min 1, max 100, default 30

RESTCopy Anchor Link

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/v1/tools/bc_population \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

MCPCopy Anchor Link

Call the tool bc_population with these arguments. Over raw JSON-RPC:

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/mcp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"bc_population","arguments":{}}}'

What comes backCopy Anchor Link

Every answer is the same envelope, over REST and over MCP: available, data, citations, freshness and notes. See Citations and freshness.