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
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(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
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At the recent World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, Russia, Canada, and China announced that they would ratify the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, leaving the United States and Australia isolated in their opposition. World Press Review contributing editor Sarah Coleman reviews the international press.
Allan Thompson, of the Toronto Star, reports on Prime Minister Chretien's proposals for reforming aid to Africa.
Paul Weinberg, of Rome's Inter Press Service, looks at the difficulties of Tamils in Canada in the aftermath of Sept. 11.
'He came, he saw, he left—and hardly anyone seemed to notice,' wrote Andrew Cohen in Toronto’s centrist Globe and Mail (Feb. 7). 'The first meeting between Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and President George W. Bush may have been front-page news in Canada. But it was barely a footnote in the United States, where Americans have trouble finding Canada on a map, let alone naming its leader.'
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