Comparing Canada with Several other Countries

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Canada United States of America United Kingdom Japan
Area- Total km2 9,984,670 9,629,091 244,820 377,835
Area-water km2 891,163 470,131 3,230 3,019
Coastline km 243,791 19,924 12,429 29,751
Population 30.491,000 272,878,000 59,501,000 126,686,000
Population Density 3.3 29.1 242.0 335.3
Pop. Growth rate 1.06 0.85 0.24
Literacy Rate* 97% 97% 99%
Value of Exports $210.7 billion $663 billion $271 Billion $440 Billion
Life Expectancy- total population 79.37 years 76.23 77.37 80.11
Birth Rate- per 1000 11 14.3 11.8 9.3
Death rate 7.4 8.5 10.6 7.8
% Arable Land 5 19 25 11
% Forest 54 30 10 67

*Literacy is defined differently by different countries, groups and individuals.The whole topic is a mine field.

Some of this data was drawn from the CIA Factbook site and the rest from StatsCan 

chart " Population density, births and deaths for selected countries- 1999"

 

Provincial population

2001 rankings % change
from 1996
Ontario 11,410,046 +6.1%
Quebec 7,237,470 +1.4%
British Columbia 3,907,738 +4.9%
Alberta 2,974,807 +10.3%
Manitoba 1,119,583 +0.5%
Saskatchewan 978,933 -1.1%
Nova Scotia 908,007 -0.1%
New Brunswick 729,498 -1.2%
Newfoundland 512,930 -7.0%
PEI 135,294 +0.5%

CANADA BY NUMBERS
30,007,094: The number of Canadians counted in the 2001 census
33,871,000: The population of California
30,291,000: The population of Algeria
4: Percentage growth of Canada's population between 1996 and 2001
14.6: Percentage growth of Canada's population between 1951 and 1956
235,000: Estimated number of immigrants who came to Canada in 2001
63,854: Estimated number of people who left Canada in 2001
277,981: Growth of Alberta's population between 1996 and 2001
38,862: Shrinkage of Newfoundland's population between 1996 and 2001
1.5: As of 2001, the average number of children a woman will have over her lifetime
4: As of 1956, the average number of children a woman would have over her lifetime
79.4: Percentage of Canadians who lived in urban centres of 10,000 or more in 2001
51: Percentage of Canada's population living in four major urban centres -- the metropolitan Montreal area; the Golden Horseshoe in Southern Ontario; the Calgary-Edmonton corridor and British Columbia's Lower Mainland.

 

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