Monday, February 3, 2014

Rank and Economy

The rank of Canada from thw poorest is 162 and from the richest is 24 with gdp per capita using atlas method  in 2003 being 23,930 $. In other measurement IMF,WB, and  CIA using nominal method in 2007, 2007 and 2008
IMF..................................................WB........................................................CIA
rank/measre......................................rank/meaure.....................................rank/measure
14/43,674.......................................15/40,222............................................18/43,478
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Rank11th (nominal) / 14th (PPP)
CurrencyCanadian dollar (CAD)
Fiscal year1 April – 29 March
Trade organisationsNAFTAOECDWTO and others
Statistics
GDP$1.839 trillion (2013 est.)[1]
GDP growth2.0% (2013 est.)[2]
GDP per capita$52,300 (nominal; 2012)[2]
GDP by sectoragriculture: 1.7%, industry: 28.5%, services: 69.8% (2012 est.)
Inflation (CPI)1.2% (2013 est.)[3]
Population
below poverty line
9.4% (relative) (2008)
Gini coefficient32.1 (2005)
Labour force18.89 million (2012 est.)
Labour force
by occupation
agriculture: 2%, manufacturing: 13%, construction: 6%, services: 76%, other: 3% (2006 est.)
Unemployment6.9% (September 2013)[4]
Main industriestransportation equipment, chemicals, processed and unprocessed minerals,food products, wood and paper products, fish products, petroleum andnatural gas
Ease of doing business rank17th[5]
External
Exports$462.528 billion (2012)[6]
Export goodsmotor vehicles and parts, industrialmachinery, aircraft,telecommunications equipment;chemicalsplasticsfertilizerswood pulptimbercrude petroleum, natural gas, electricity, aluminum
Main export partners United States 73.2%
 EU 4.6%
 UK 4.3%
 China 4.3%
 Germany 3.4%
 Israel 3.1% [7]
Imports$474.544 billion (2012)[8]
Import goodsmachinery and equipment, motor vehicles and parts, crude oil, chemicals, electricity, durableconsumer goods
Main import partners United States 50.6%
 China 11.0%
 UK 6.2%

 Japan 6.2%
 Mexico 5.5%
 South Korea 4.5% (2012 est.)[9]
FDI stock$528.7 billion (31 December 2010 est.)
Gross external debt
 Canada has the eleventh-largest economy in the world (measured in US dollars at market exchange rates), is one of the world's wealthiest nations, and is a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Group of Eight (G8). As with other developed nations, the Canadian economy is dominated by the service industry, which employs about three quarters ofCanadians. Canada is unusual among developed countries in the importance of the primary sector, with the logging and oil industries being two of Canada's most important. Canada also has a sizable manufacturing sector, centred in Central Canada, with the automobile industry and aircraft industryespecially important. With a long coastal line, Canada has the 8th largest commercial fishing and seafood industry in the world. Canada is one of the global leaders of the entertainment software industr..