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.
Press
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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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Canada's move to
Michael Byers recently released Intent for a Nation: What Is Canada For?—a contemporary response to George Grant's iconic Lament for a Nation. He recently spoke with journalist Am Johal from Vancouver.
A former U.N. special envoy for H.I.V./AIDS discusses new developments in Africa.
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