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Everything you wanted to know about Canada and then some

This is the result of a project that I completed with the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies. You can find all of this information and then some in the Institute's Strategic Profile: Canada (2002/2003)

Please note that these statistics are meant for 2002/03. Anything beyond that you are going to want to do some serious fact checking.

Physical Data Internal Comparison of the Provinces
Demographic Data Military Data
Economic/Social Data Sources

Physical Data

Data Figure/Rate Rank
Area 9,984,670 km2 2 world
Coastline 243, 792 1 world
Length of borders 8,890 km  

Demographic Data

Data (2001) Figure/Rate Rank
Population (estimate) 31, 413, 990 33 world
Population density 3.0 per km2 2 lowest world (tied)
Population growth rate 1.1% 3 OECD (tied)
Adult literacy 99% 1 world (tied)
Life expectancy 76.0/81.5 3 world
Human Development Index (2002) 0.94 3 world

Economic/Social Data

Data (2001) Figure/Rate Rank
GDP (PPP) $898.6 billion (US) 9 OECD
GDP/capita (PPP) $28,911 (US) 8 OECD
Federal debt $536 billion (CDN)  
Imports $221.5 billion (US) 7 OECD
Exports $259.6 billion (US) 5 OECD
GDP by Sector    
     Agriculture 2.60% 19 OECD (tied)
     Industry 30.1% 11 OECD
     Services 66.3% 18 OECD

Internal Comparison by Province

Province Pop % Total

Area km2

 % Total GDP $M % Total GDP/Cap
Nunavut 28,715 0.1 2,093,190 13.5 912 0.08 $32,387.57
NWT 41,403 0.14 1,346,106 21.0 2,920 0.27 N/A
Yukon 29,924 0.1 482,443 4.8 1,131 0.10 $37,845.07
BC 4,141,272 13.19 947,800 9.5 130,396 12.02 $31,835.47
Alberta 3,113,586 9.92 661,848 6.6 150,284 13.85 $49,044.32
Sask 1,011,808 3.22 651,036 6.5 33,059 3.05 $32,545.34
Manitoba 1,150,848 3.67 647,797 6.5 35,084 3.23 $30,506.92
Ontario 12,068,301 38.42 1,076,395 10.8 440,051 40.56 $37,058.69
Quebec 7,455,208 23.74 1,542,056 15.4 228,516 21.06 $30,836.77
NB 756,652 2.41 72,908 0.7 20,211 1.86 $26,696.10
NS 944,765 3.01 55,284 0.6 24,917 2.30 $26,431.78
PEI 139,913 0.45 5,660 0.1 3,423 0.32 $24,712.30
NFLD 533,761 1.70 405,212 4.1 13,916 1.28 $26,071.59
Total/AVG 31,413,990 100% 9,984,670 100% 1,084,820 100% $32,164.32

Population, GDP and GDP/Cap data from 2001 figures.

Military Data

Data 2002-2003 Rank
Regular Force (Effective) 52,000 10 NATO/9 OECD/56 World
     as % of population 0.17% 9 NATO/12 OECD/118 World
Primary Reserve 23,000 17 NATO/24 OECD/77 WORLD
Total defence budget $11.5 Billion (CDN) 6 NATO/9 OECD/14 WORLD
Total defence expenditure $12.4 Billion (CDN) 15 World
      as % GDP 1.1% 17 NATO/24 OECD/153 World

Regular force ranking out of 162 countries; Primary reserve ranking out of 169 countries; NATO ranking out of 18 countries (Iceland excluded); OECD ranking out of 29 countries.

Sources

Statistics Canada
 http://www.statcan.ca

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
http://www.oecd.org

United Nations Development Program - Human Development Index
http://hdr.undp.org/

The Economist Intelligence Unit
http://www.eiu.com/

International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) Military Balance 2002-2003
http://www.iiss.org

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