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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