Country Profile Canada

Canada is the second largest country in the world. and with only about one-tenth of its  land area inhabited, it is one of the most sparsely populated.  Canada has one of the world’s highest rates of energy consumption per person.

 

 Key Statistics

 

Official Name – Canada

Capital – Ottawa

Independence – 1867

Population – 34,835,000

Total Area – 9,984,670 km

Language Spoken – English French Chinese Italian German Ukrainian

Climate –

Summer (Dec/Feb) 14 – 28

Autumn (Mar/May) 3 – 9

Winter (Jun/Aug)  -2 – 5

Spring (Sept/Nov) 1 – 17

 

 

Economic Indicators

 

Currency – Canadian dollar (CAD)

Central Bank – Bank of Canada

GDP – 1,396,131 Billion US$

Inflation – 2.2%

Unemployment Rate – 7.4%

GDP Composition by Sector –

• Agriculture: 1.9%
• Industry: 27.1%
• Services: 71% (2011 estimate)

 

 

Major Industries By Rating –

Across Canada as a whole manufacturing has developed around a diversfield high-quality resource base & a wide range of metallic & non-metallic minerals.

• Aerospace
• Car Manufacture
• Chemical
• Engineering
• Food Processing
• Hi-Tech Industry
• Hydro-Electronic Power
• Oil & Gas
• Mining
• Timber Processing

 

Biggest Companies in Canada are as following –

• Royal Bank of Canada (Major Banks)
• TD Bank Financial Group (Major Banks)
• Bank of Nova Scotia (Major Banks)
• Suncor Energy (Oil & Gas Operations)
• Bank of Montreal (Major Banks)
• Canadian Imperial Bank (Major Banks)
• Sun Life Financial (Life & Health Insurance)
• BCE (Telecommunications services)

 

 The Major Export Items & Its classifications are as follow –

• Motor vehicles and parts
• Industrial machinery
• Aircraft
• Telecommunications equipment
• Chemicals
• Plastics
• Fertilizers

Source –

GDP                                                                   

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2012/01/index.htm

Central Bank                                                     

http://www.bis.org/cbanks.htm

GDP Composition by Sector                          

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Inflation                                                            

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2012/01/index.htm

Unemployment Rate                                       

 http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2012/01/index.htm

Biggest Companies                                        

http://www.forbes.com/lists/

The Major Export Items & Its Classification

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/