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: Monday, 31-Dec-2012 13:23:43 PST;
PDF file, 25KB]
- 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: Friday, 11-May-2012 20:09:19 PDT;
PDF file, 13KB]
- 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, 76KB]
- Immigration into Canada 1955-2008
- Number of immigrants into Canada by region of origin.
[Last updated: Friday, 11-May-2012 20:13:15 PDT;
PDF file, 5.7KB]
- Gross Electricity Production
in Canada by Energy Type 1977-2008
- How much energy is produced by hydro, thermal, and nuclear plants?
[Last updated Friday, 11-May-2012 20:02:30 PDT;
PDF file, 9.3KB]
- 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: Monday, 31-Dec-2012 13:04:51 PST;
PDF file, 10KB]
- 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]