CANADA

Capital Ottawa
Area (km2) 9 970 610
Total population (thousands, 2021) 38 226
Population density (per km2) 4
National currency Canadian dollar (CAD)
National statistical office www.statcan.ca
Statistics Canada
Women in the labour force, 2021
   percentage of total for both sexes 47%
Gender pay gap
   monthly earnings, 2019 22%
   hourly wage, 2019 12%
Women in part-time employment, 2019
   percentage of employed women 26%
Female tertiary students, 2020
   percentage of total for both sexes 56%
Female victims of homicide, 2021
   percentage of total for both sexes 25%
Women researchers, 2021
   percentage of total for both sexes 59%
Life expectancy at birth, 2020
   females, years 84.0
   males, years 79.5
Life expectancy at 65, 2020
   females, years 22.1
   males, years 19.4
Total fertility rate, 2021
   average number of children per woman 1.4
Adolescent fertility rate, 2021
   number of live births per 1000 women aged 15-19 4.9
Mean age of women at birth of first child, 2019
   age in years 29.4
 
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
Employment
 (% change over previous year)
2.1
1.8
2.1
-5.6
5.0
4.0
Unemployment rate
 (%)
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Youth unemployment rate
 (%)
11.6
11.1
11.0
20.2
13.5
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GDP
   current prices, millions of US dollars, PPP, 2021 2 002 776
GDP, per capita
   current prices, US dollars, PPP, 2021 52 422
Exports of goods and services
   % of GDP, 2022 33.7
Imports of goods and services
   % of GDP, 2022 33.5
Final consumption expenditure, per capita
   current prices, US dollars, PPP, 2021 39 975
Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
   CAD per USD, US=1, 2021 1.253
Forest resources
   Area of forest
 (percentage of land area, 2015)
 38
   Wood volume
 (m3 per inhabitant, 2015)
 1 320

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Transport infrastructure, road accidents and traffic
   Railways
      total length in kilometres, 2020 67 023
   Motorways
      total length in kilometres, 1995 16 571
   Persons injured in road accidents
      per million inhabitants, 2020 2 746
   Persons killed in road accidents
      per million inhabitants, 2020 46
   Traffic, railways
      million passenger-kilometres, 2020 235
      million tonne-kilometres, 2020 420 233
   Traffic, roads
      million passenger-kilometres, 2009 494 700
      million tonne-kilometres, 2018 269 285