Strategic Profile Canada 2012 Editor: Sarah Magee

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1 Strategic Profile Canada 2012 Editor: Sarah Magee Partners: Canadian International Council Conseil International du Canada Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute Institut Canadien de la Défense et des Affaires Etrangères 1 Devonshire Place, Room 064S Toronto Ontario M5S 3K7 Tel Fax info@opencanada.org 8 York Street 2nd Floor Ottawa, Ontario K1N 5S6 Telephone: Fax: contact@cdfai.org PHYSICAL DATA FIGURE/RATE OECD/World Rank ** Area 8,965,121 km 2 2 World Coastline 243,792 km 1 World Length of Border with U.S. 8,890 km DEMOGRAPHIC DATA * FIGURE/RATE RANKING ** Population 34,483, World Population Density 3.7 per km 2 12 Lowest World Population aged % 3 OECD Population aged % 20 OECD Foreign Born Population (2010) 20.1% 5 OECD Population Growth Rate ( ) 1.0% 6 OECD Quality of Life (UNDP) World Unemployment 7.4% 14 OECD Total Labour Force 18,699, OECD Abbreviations: OECD - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; UNDP - United Nations Development Programme denotes increase over previous year; denotes decrease from previous year *Unless otherwise noted, all values reflects 2011 data. ** As a result of a lack of OECD data for 2011, Ranking has been incorporated from the 2010 Strategic Profile. Data for other years has been used as a result of a lack of data for 2011.

2 ECONOMIC DATA * FIGURE/RATE RANKING ** All figures in US dollars to permit international comparisons GDP (2011) $ trillion 8 OECD GDP (PPP) (2010) trillion 10 OECD GDP/capita (PPP) (2010) $40, OECD GDP growth ( ) 2.46% 20 OECD Gross Federal Debt (2008) $921,000 billion As % of GDP 56.7% Gov't Expend. as % of GDP (2010) OECD Taxes as % of GPD (2010) 32.2% 20 OECD Personal Income Tax as % of total 36.3% 6 OECD Corp. Income Tax as % of total 11.0% 11 OECD Goods/Services Tax as % of total 24.3% 27 OECD Global Business Competitiveness n/a 9 World Imports (2010) $392 billion 10 OECD Exports (2010) $ billion 8 OECD As % of GDP (2010) 29.4% Trade balance (2010) -$5.33 billion 4 OECD Current Account Balance (% of GDP) -2.8% 11 OECD GDP by Sector Agriculture (2010) 2.2% 14 OECD Wheat Export [16.1] million tonnes 14% of world Industry (2009) 31.7% 9 OECD Manufacturing (2011) 13.5% 17 OECD Service (2009) 66.1% 21 OECD Primary Energy Supply (2010) Mtoe 4 OECD Production (2010) Mtoe 2 OECD Consumption (2009) Mtoe 4 OECD Total carbon dioxide emissions (2010) 521 million tonnes 4 OECD Per Capita (2010) 14.0 tonnes 4 OECD Research & Development (2009) Expenditure as % of GDP 1.80% 10 OECD Expenditure per capita (PPP) $ OECD Gov't financed (provisional) % 18 OECD Expenditure as % on Defence R&D 4.0% 12 OECD Official Development Assistance (2010) $4.725 billion 9 OECD As % of GNI (2010) 0.33% 15 OECD Health Care As % of GDP (2010) 111.7% 5 OECD Per Capita (PPP) (2009) $5,614 5 OECD Education as % of GDP (2008) 6.04% 5 OECD

3 Abbreviations: Mtoe = millions of tonnes of oil equivalent; PPP = Purchasing Power Parity; GDP = Gross Domestic Product; GNI = Gross National Income; R&D = Research and Development Sources: OECD, OECD StatExtracts; OECD Factbook 2010; OECD Country statistical profile: Canada ; UNDP, Human Development Statistical Index 2011; The World Bank; International Monetary Fund; Statistics Canada; Bank of Canada; SSWG, 2010 Strategic Profile. *Unless otherwise noted, all values reflects 2011 data. ** As a result of a lack of OECD data for 2011, Ranking has been incorporated from the 2010 Strategic Profile. Data for other years has been used as a result of a lack of data for [ ] indicates an estimated value. MILITARY DATA Rank (b) Regular Force (a) 65,700 65, NATO/58 World as % of population 0.19% 0.19% Reserve Force 33,950 33, NATO/59 World as % of population 0.09% 0.10% Defence Budget $21.8 billion Cdn $20.6 billion Cdn 6 NATO/13 World as % of GDP 1.14% 1.5% 6 NATO/14 World as % of population Not available 1.37% 20 NATO/92 World per capita $ Cdn $615 Cdn 8 NATO/20World (a) Total Regular Force including those on terminal leave, disability, and those awaiting basic or qualification training. (b) As a result of a lack of data for 2011, Ranking has been incorporated from the 2010 Strategic Profile. Data has been collected from the IISS Military Balance 2011 and Most recent Canadian Forces data is detailed below. DND Personnel, Service Line/Activity Regular Force Primary Reserves Army 24,696 25,402 Royal Canadian Navy 9,761 3,798 Royal Canadian Air Force 13,582 2,330 Command, Training and Specialist Forces 19, TOTAL 67,720 32,451 Canadian Rangers: 4,675; Supplementary Ready Reserve: 15,756; Cadet Organizations Administration and Training Service (COATS): 10,278; Coast Guard (Civilian): 4,554

4 FORCES ABROAD (Operation, Location, and Number of personnel as of May, 2012) Operation Location Personnel Op Attention Afghanistan 925 (USCENTCOM) Op Foundation Tampa, FL/Bahrain 7 (MINUSTAH) Op Hamlet Haiti 5 (UNAMID/MINUAD) Op Saturn Darfur, Sudan 6 (MONUC) Op Crocodile DRC 9 (IMATT) Op Sculpture Sierra Leone 9 (UNMISS) Op SOPRANO Sudan 14 (Coalition Task Force CTF 150) Op Artemis Maritime ops Arabian Sea 250 Op Metric Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, Horn of Africa Currently no CF assets deployed Op Saiph Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, Horn of Africa Variable (MFO/FMO) Op Calumet Siani 28 (UNDOF/FNUOD) Op Gladius Golan Heights 3 (USSC) Op Proteus Jerusalem 18 (UNTSO/ONUST) Op Jade Jerusalem 8 (UNFICYP) Op Snowgoose Cyprus 1 (KFOR) Op Kobold Kosovo 5 TOTAL 1,288 Source: Data collected from National Defence and the Canadian Forces, International Operations,

5 CANADA INTERNAL COMPARISONS (all figures are in Canadian dollars) Province Population (2011) (1) % Total Area (sq km) (2) % Total GDP $M % Total (2010) (3) (2010) GDP/Cap $ (2010) (3) Newfoundland and Labrador 510, , , ,140 Prince Edward Island 145, , , ,938 Nova Scotia 945, , , ,475 New Brunswick 755, , , ,116 Quebec 7,979, ,542, , ,395 Ontario 13,373, ,076, , ,304 Manitoba 1,250, , , ,949 Saskatchewan 1,057, , , ,877 Alberta 3,779, , , ,826 British Columbia 4,573, , , ,848 Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut 111, ,921, , ,950 TOTAL 34,483, % 9,984, % 1,624, % 553,818 (1) Statistics Canada, Population by year, by province and territory, Data last modified: September 28, 2011, (2) Statistics Canada, Land and freshwater area, by province and territory, Data last modified: June 28, 2011, (3) Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Provincial Pocket Factbook: March 13, 2012 Edition, GDP/Cap $(2011) is not available.

Federal and Provincial/Territorial Tax Rates for Income Earned

Federal and Provincial/Territorial Tax Rates for Income Earned by a CCPC Effective January 1, 2015 and 2016 by a CCPC Effective January 1, 2015 1 Federal rates General corporate rate 38.0% 38.0% 38.0% Federal abatement (10.0) (10.0) (10.0) 28.0 28.0 28.0 business