Interesting Bits of Applied Economics and Noteworthy
Facts about Canada
- Canada's International Trade
and Investment Profile
- This document currently contains four time charts
depicting Canada's trade intensity (the sum of exports
and imports relative to GDP) and its decomposition into
goods and service trade, Canada's trade balance (exports
minus imports, relative to GDP), Canada's capital flow
balances (inflows minus outflows, relative to GDP), the
industrial composition of Canada's exports between 1971
and 2003. Furthermore, the are charts detailing the
country source of merchandise imports and country
destination of merchandise exports.
[Last updated: Friday, 18-Sep-2009 15:03:14 PDT; PDF
file, 23KB]
- Canada's Retail Gasoline
and Diesel Prices
- Five charts containing monthly average fuel prices
since 2000 for diesel and regular gasoline, average
surcharge for premium gasoline, price difference between
diesel and regular gasoline, price differences across the
country, and sesonal price effects.
[Last updated: Tuesday, 21-Jul-2009 11:00:10 PDT;
PDF file, 12KB]
- Canada's Population Pyramid
1921-2001
- This document contains 21 pages, each showing the age
distribution of Canada's population in "pyramid" form in
four-year intervals. By flipping through the pages one
can visualize the movement of cohorts through the
pyramid.
[December 22, 2001; PDF file,
71KB]
- Immigration into Canada
1955-2008
- Number of immigrants into Canada by region of origin.
[Last updated: Tuesday, 21-Jul-2009 11:09:37 PDT;
PDF file, 4.1KB]
- Gross Electricity
Production in Canada by Energy Type
1977-2008
- How much energy is produced by hydro, thermal, and
nuclear plants?
[Last updated Tuesday, 21-Jul-2009 11:11:19 PDT;
PDF file, 8.0KB]
- Canadian Government Debt
1977-2005
- This single-page chart shows the indebtedness of
Canadian federal, provincial, and municipal governments,
expressed as a percentage of current GDP
[Last updated: Wednesday, 20-Feb-2008 08:45:53 PST; PDF
file, 32KB]
- Leading Economic Indicator
Time Series for Canada
- These 3 charts show the smoothed and unsmoothed time
series of Canada's composite index of 10 leading economic
indicators.
[Last updated: Friday, 18-Sep-2009 15:03:22 PDT; PDF
file, 9.4KB]
- Canadian Crime
Statistics
- This is a 15-page document with time trends of major
crime types and interprovincial comparisons (actual
number of offences, crime rate, and crime rate relative
to national average). The interprovincial comparisons
cover the years 1990, 1995, and 2000.
[January 14, 2002; PDF file,
127KB]