Economy

Imports
$467 billion (2021).   Cars ($27.2B), Motor vehicles; parts and accessories (8701 to 8705) ($14.5B), Delivery Trucks ($14.2B), Refined Petroleum ($12.5B), and Crude Petroleum ($11.9B), importing mostly from the United States ($259B), China ($57.1B), Mexico ($17.4B), Germany ($12.4B), and Japan ($9.62B).

Financial inclusion factors (over 15 years of  age)
• 48% have an account with a financial institution
• 24% have a credit card
• 2.4% have a mobile money account
• 19% make online purchases

Ease of doing business
Very easy to conduct business (rated 79.6 out of 100). 14^th out of 34 countries in the OECD and High-income group, 23^rd worldwide out of 190 countries (2020, World Bank)

Exports
$484 billion (2021). Crude Petroleum ($81.2B), Cars ($29B), Petroleum Gas ($15B), Gold ($14.3B), and Sawn Wood ($13.3B), exporting mostly to the United States ($355B), China ($22.5B), Japan ($11.9B), United Kingdom ($11.8B), and Mexico ($7.14B).

Main local online stores
Amazon Canada, eBay Canada, Walmart Canada, Best Buy Canada, Canadian Tire, Costco Canada, Home Depot Canada, Etsy Canada, Hudson’s Bay, Newegg Canada 

Economic freedom
‘Mostly free’ (73.7 out of 100) 1st amongst 32 countries in the Americas region, 16th worldwide out of 186 countries (2022, Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal)

Global Innovation Index
Ranked 2nd out of 2 Northern American countries, 15th out of 132 worldwide.

The Global Innovation Index captures the innovation
ecosystem performance of 132 economies and tracks the most recent global innovation trends.

Media

Media language
French, English, Spanish, Arabic

Information channels
Canada has a long history of public broadcasting. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) was set up in the 1930s in response to the growing influence of American radio. Broadcasting in French and English, CBC’s radio networks carry speech-based and cultural programmes. It operates two national TV channels and TV and radio services for indigenous people in the north. There are hundreds of licensed radio stations in Canada, many of them commercial. There is extensive take-up of multichannel TV. The broadcasting regulator rules that quotas of Canadian material must be carried by TV and radio stations. The media are free to present a wide range of views and opinions. Media freedom “has slipped in ranking due to government transparency issues and controversial antiterrorism legislation”, Reporters Without Borders said in 2019.

The press

The Globe and Mail – Toronto-based national daily
La Presse – Montreal-based daily
Toronto Sun – daily
National Post – daily
Le Journal de Montreal – daily
Vancouver Sun – daily
Montreal Gazette – daily
Maclean’s – weekly news magazine

Television

CBC – public, operates English-language national network
Société Radio-Canada – public, operates national French-language
CTV – major commercial network
TVA – major French-language commercial network
Aboriginal People’s TV Network (APTN) – Winnipeg-based national network, via cable and satellite
CPAC – parliamentary and political channel
CRTC – regulator; its website has information about the main TV groups

Radio

CBC – public, operates English-language network Société Radio-Canada – public, operates French-language Ici
Radio-Canada Premiere and Ici Musique
Radio Canada International – CBC external online outlet, in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic
Los 40 Principales – private FM music network
CRTC – regulator; its website has information about the main radio groups

News agency

The Canadian Press

Internet Data

Internet users
96.5% penetration, 36.89 million

Share of web traffic by device
37.18% mobile phones, 57.11% computers (laptops and desktops), 5.66% tablet devices, others 0.05%

Median speed of mobile Internet connection
72.87 Mbps

Median speed of fixed Internet connection
97.51 Mbps

Mobile connection as a percentage of total population: 101.8%

Percentage of mobile connections that are broadband (3G-5G): 99.4%

Most popular web search engines
Google (92.21%), Bing (4.54%), Yahoo (2.03%),   DuckduckGo (0.86%), Ecosia (0.13%), MSN(0.08%)

Most used social media
Facebook (45.9%), Pinterest (19.55%), Twitter (18.14%), Instagram (12.81%), YouTube (1.6%), Tumbrl (0.89 %)

Social statistics

Life expectancy
82.52 years (2020)

Current healthcare expenditure
11.6% of GDP (2019)

Current education expenditure
92.6% of total expenditure in public institutions

Co2 emissions
15.4 metric tons per capita

Glass Ceiling Index
65.9 out 100, ranked 11th out of 29 countries.

The glass-ceiling index measures the environment for working women combining data on higher education, labor-force participation, pay, child-care costs, maternity and paternity rights, business-school applications, and representation in senior jobs.

Graduates (tertiary education)
In Canada, in 2018, 62% of 25–34 year-olds had completed a tertiary degree compared to 44% on average across OECD countries.

Corruption Perception Index
Canada scored 74 out of 100, ranked 14 out of 180 countries worldwide.

The CPI measures perception of corruption due to the difficulty of measuring absolute levels of corruption.

World Happiness Index
Canada ranked 15 out of 146 countries, with a score of 7.025.

The World Happiness Index measures happiness based on respondent ratings of their own lives, correlated with other life factors.