Canada 
Facts
Population: 33,390,141 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 17.3% (male 2,967,383/female 2,824,189)
15-64 years: 69.2% (male 11,604,723/female 11,490,839)
65 years and over: 13.5% (male 1,927,035/female 2,575,972) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 0.869% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 10.75 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 7.86 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 5.79 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.051 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.748 male(s)/female
total population: 0.977 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 4.63 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 5.08 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 4.17 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 80.34 years
male: 76.98 years
female: 83.86 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 1.61 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.3% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 56,000 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 1,500 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Canadian(s)
adjective: Canadian.
Ethnic groups: British Isles origin 28%, French origin 23%, other European 15%, Amerindian 2%, other, mostly Asian, African, Arab 6%, mixed background 26%.
Religions: Roman Catholic 42.6%, Protestant 23.3% (including United Church 9.5%, Anglican 6.8%, Baptist 2.4%, Lutheran 2%), other Christian 4.4%, Muslim 1.9%, other and unspecified 11.8%, none 16% (2001 census).
Languages: English (official) 59.3%, French (official) 23.2%, other 17.5%.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 99% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $1.178 trillion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 2.7% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $35,600 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 2.3%
industry: 29.2%
services: 68.5% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 17.59 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 2%, manufacturing 14%, construction 5%, services 75%, other 3% (2004).
Population below poverty line: 15.9%; note - this figure is the Low Income Cut-Off (LICO), a calculation that results in higher figures than found in many comparable economies; Canada does not have an official poverty line (2003).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.8%
highest 10%: 23.8% (1994).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 6.4% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $183.5 billion
expenditures: $181.8 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2005 est.).
Agriculture - products: wheat, barley, oilseed, tobacco, fruits, vegetables; dairy products; forest products; fish.
Industries: transportation equipment, chemicals, processed and unprocessed minerals, food products, wood and paper products, fish products, petroleum and natural gas.
Industrial production growth rate: 0.7% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 573 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 522.4 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 33.01 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 22.48 billion kWh (2004).
Exports: $405 billion f.o.b. (2006 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 84.2%, Japan 2.1%, UK 1.8% (2005).
Imports: $353.2 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, motor vehicles and parts, crude oil, chemicals, electricity, durable consumer goods.
Imports - partners: US 56.7%, China 7.8%, Mexico 3.8% (2005).
Debt - external: $684.7 billion (30 June 2006).
Economic aid - donor: ODA, $2.6 billion (2004).
Currency (code): Canadian dollar (CAD).
Exchange rates: Canadian dollars per US dollar - 1.1334 (2006), 1.2118 (2005), 1.301 (2004), 1.4011 (2003), 1.5693 (2002).
Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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(Anti-consumerist magzine), Vancouver
http://www.adbusters.org
(conservative), Calgary
http://www.calgaryherald.com/
Canadian Business
(Business monthly), Toronto
Canadian Consumer
(Bimonthly), Ottawa
Canadian Forum
(Liberal monthly), Toronto
(News agency), Toronto
http://www.cp.org/english/hp.htm
Canadian, The
(Supplement to Toronto Star), Toronto
Canada in the News
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Stephen Leahy, writing for Maclean's magazine, reports on the reappearance of an enormous, oxygen-deprived dead zone in Lake Erie.
If you think irony’s dead, you’ve never heard of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. The commission wrapped up its annual six-week meeting in Geneva this week. Among the more disquieting developments, it rejected resolutions to criticize Cuba’s crackdown on opposition voices, to condemn Russia’s record in Chechnya, and to scrutinize the behavior of the governments of Zimbabwe and Sudan,’ writes The Vancouver Sun.
Rachel S. Taylor profiles Dave Irvine-Halliday, who has devised a novel means of bringing electricity to remote, disadvantaged areas.
Paul Jackson, writing for the conservative tabloid, The Calgary Sun, writes, 'The most unconscionable and cowardly act of the past decade has been the betrayal of President George W. Bush by virtually every country in the Western democratic world.'
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