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 416-946-7209 Fax 416-946-7319 www.opencanada.org info@opencanada.org 8 York Street 2nd Floor Ottawa, Ontario K1N 5S6 Telephone: 403-231-7624 Fax: 403-231-7598 www.cdfai.org 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 34,483,000 36 World Population Density 3.7 per km 2 12 Lowest World Population aged 15-64 69.2% 3 OECD Population aged 65+ 14.4% 20 OECD Foreign Born Population (2010) 20.1% 5 OECD Population Growth Rate (2010-2011) 1.0% 6 OECD Quality of Life (UNDP) 0.908 6 World Unemployment 7.4% 14 OECD Total Labour Force 18,699,400 11 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.
ECONOMIC DATA * FIGURE/RATE RANKING ** All figures in US dollars to permit international comparisons GDP (2011) $1.6797 trillion 8 OECD GDP (PPP) (2010) 1.395 trillion 10 OECD GDP/capita (PPP) (2010) $40, 440 8 OECD GDP growth (2009-2010) 2.46% 20 OECD Gross Federal Debt (2008) $921,000 billion As % of GDP 56.7% Gov't Expend. as % of GDP (2010) 43.82 21 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) $386.67 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) 255.3 Mtoe 4 OECD Production (2010) 395.8 Mtoe 2 OECD Consumption (2009) 204.98 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) $724 13 OECD Gov't financed (provisional) 31.42 % 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
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 2011-2012; 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 2011. [ ] indicates an estimated value. MILITARY DATA 2011 2010 Rank (b) Regular Force (a) 65,700 65,722 11 NATO/58 World as % of population 0.19% 0.19% Reserve Force 33,950 33,967 15 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 $612.00 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 2012. Most recent Canadian Forces data is detailed below. DND Personnel, 2011-2012 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 19,681 921 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
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, http://www.cefcom.forces.gc.ca/pa-ap/ops/index-eng.asp
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 510,600 1.5 405,212 4.0 28,192 1.7 55,140 Prince Edward Island 145,900 0.4 5,660 0.1 5,010 0.3 34,938 Nova Scotia 945,400 2.7 55,284 0.6 36,352 2.2 38,475 New Brunswick 755,500 2.2 72,908 0.7 29,448 1.8 39,116 Quebec 7,979,700 23.1 1,542,056 15.4 319,348 19.7 40,395 Ontario 13,373,000 38.8 1,076,395 10.8 612,494 37.7 46,304 Manitoba 1,250,600 3.6 647,797 6.5 54,257 3.4 43,949 Saskatchewan 1,057,900 3.1 651,036 6.5 63,557 3.9 60,877 Alberta 3,779,400 11.0 661,848 6.6 263,537 16.2 70,826 British Columbia 4,573,300 13.3 944,735 9.5 203,147 12.5 44,848 Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut 111,700 0.3 3,921,739 39.3 8,781 0.6 78,950 TOTAL 34,483,000 100% 9,984,670 100% 1,624,123 100% 553,818 (1) Statistics Canada, Population by year, by province and territory, Data last modified: September 28, 2011, http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/demo02a-eng.htm (2) Statistics Canada, Land and freshwater area, by province and territory, Data last modified: June 28, 2011, http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/12-581-x/2011000/envi-eng.htm#t36 (3) Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Provincial Pocket Factbook: March 13, 2012 Edition, http://www.international.gc.ca/economist-economiste/assets/pdfs/data/facts-fiches/provincial_pfact_eng.pdf GDP/Cap $(2011) is not available.