The 2003 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency
purchasing power parity - $934.1 billion (2002 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
3.3% (2002 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $29,300 (2002 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 2.3% industry: 26.5% services: 71.2% (2001 est.)
Population below poverty line:
NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.8% highest 10%: 23.8% (1994)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
31.5 (1994)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.2% (2002 est.)
Labor force:
16.4 million (2001 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
services 74%, manufacturing 15%, construction 5%, agriculture 3%,
other 3% (2000)
Unemployment rate:
7.6% (2002 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $178.6 billion
expenditures: $161.4 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(FY 00/01 est.)
Industries:
transportation equipment, chemicals, processed and unprocessed
minerals, food products; wood and paper products; fish products,
petroleum and natural gas
Industrial production growth rate:
2.2% (2002 est.)
Electricity - production:
566.3 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 28% hydro: 57.9% other: 1.3% (2001) nuclear: 12.9%
Electricity - consumption:
504.4 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - exports:
38.4 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - imports:
16.11 billion kWh (2001)
Oil - production:
2.738 million bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - consumption:
1.703 million bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
2.008 million bbl/day (2001)
Oil - imports:
1.145 million bbl/day (2001)
Oil - proved reserves:
5.112 billion bbl (37257)
Natural gas - production:
186.8 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
82.25 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
109 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
4.46 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
1.691 trillion cu m (37257)
Agriculture - products: wheat, barley, oilseed, tobacco, fruits, vegetables; dairy products; forest products; fish
Exports:
$260.5 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)
Exports - commodities:
motor vehicles and parts, industrial machinery, aircraft,
telecommunications equipment; chemicals, plastics, fertilizers; wood
pulp, timber, crude petroleum, natural gas, electricity, aluminum
Exports - partners:
US 87.7%, Japan 2%, UK 1.1% (2002)
Imports:
$229 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, motor vehicles and parts, crude oil,
chemicals, electricity, durable consumer goods
Imports - partners:
US 62.6%, China 4.6%, Japan 4.4% (2002)
Debt - external:
$1.9 billion $NA (2000)
Economic aid - donor:
ODA, $1.3 billion (1999)
Currency:
Canadian dollar (CAD)
Currency code:
CAD
Exchange rates:
Canadian dollars per US dollar - 1.57 (2002), 1.55 (2001), 1.49
(2000), 1.49 (1999), 1.48 (1998)
Fiscal year:
1 April - 31 March
Communications Canada
Telephones - main lines in use:
20,802,900 (1999)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
8,751,300 (1997)
Telephone system:
general assessment: excellent service provided by modern technology
domestic: domestic satellite system with about 300 earth stations
international: 5 coaxial submarine cables; satellite earth stations
- 5 Intelsat (4 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Pacific Ocean) and 2
Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 535, FM 53, shortwave 6 (1998)
Radios:
32.3 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
80 (plus many repeaters) (1997)
Televisions:
21.5 million (1997)
Internet country code:
.ca
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
760 (2000 est.)
Internet users:
16.84 million (2002)
Transportation Canada
Railways: total: 49,422 km standard gauge: 49,422 km 1.435-m gauge (129 km electrified) (2002)
Highways:
total: 1.408 million km
paved: 497,306 km (including 16,900 km of expressways)
unpaved: 911,494 km (2002)
Waterways:
3,000 km (including Saint Lawrence Seaway)
Pipelines:
crude and refined oil 23,564 km; natural gas 74,980 km
Ports and harbors:
Becancour (Quebec), Churchill, Halifax, Hamilton, Montreal, New
Westminster, Prince Rupert, Quebec, Saint John (New Brunswick), St.
John's (Newfoundland), Sept Isles, Sydney, Trois-Rivieres, Thunder
Bay, Toronto, Vancouver, Windsor
Merchant marine:
total: 122 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 1,840,272