🍁 Canada
“A Mari Usque Ad Mare” — From Sea to Sea
Canada at a Glance
5 of 5 liveHow big Canada's economy is, how fast it's moving, and how 41.4 million people work and live.
Canada's real-time population model, updated quarterly from births, deaths, and migration.
Know About Canada
4 of 4 liveHow Canada works: the Constitution, Parliament, elections, and the federal budget process.
Canada's constitution combines the 1867 Act (structure of government) and the 1982 Act (patriation + the Charter of Rights and Freedoms).
Governance & Justice
4 of 4 liveParliament, party standings, and public safety — the institutions that run the country.
Members of Parliament elected by constituency under first-past-the-post. The 2025 election returned a Liberal minority; the party reached a bare 172-seat majority in April 2026 through by-elections and floor-crossings. Standings from the 45th Parliament.
Living Standards
3 of 3 liveHealth, education, and how long — and how well — Canadians actually live.
Combines birth-year mortality data into a single figure — the standard global measure of population health. Still below the 2019 pre-pandemic peak.
Agriculture & Food
2 of 2 liveWhat Canadian farms grow — and how much of the world's food supply runs through them.
The Field Crop Reporting Series — a joint Statistics Canada / Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada release using satellite-modelled yield estimates.
Natural Resources & Energy
3 of 3 liveHow Canada powers itself — and how much energy and minerals it sends to the world.
Canada set a new annual production record in 2024, driven partly by the Trans Mountain Expansion opening new export capacity.
Infrastructure
2 of 2 liveThe roads, rail, and ports that move Canadians and Canadian goods across the second-largest country on Earth.
Canada's designated National Highway System, including the Trans-Canada Highway's 7,821 km main route between Victoria, BC and St. John's, NL — the world's 4th-longest single highway.
Innovation & Industry
2 of 2 liveStartups, research spending, and trade — where the Canadian economy is placing its bets.
Billion-dollar-valuation Canadian startups. Different trackers report different counts (21–33) depending on methodology and date — shown here as a representative estimate, not a single authoritative government figure, unlike most other stats on this page.
Wildlife & Natural Spaces
3 of 3 liveNearly 9% of the world's forest, and the parks system built to protect what's wild.
369 million hectares of forest — close to 9% of the entire world's forest, tracked through NRCan's National Forest Inventory.
Culture & Heritage
3 of 3 liveUNESCO sites, Olympic history, and the millions who visit Canada every year to see it.
Anticosti Island (Quebec) was added in 2024, bringing Canada's UNESCO World Heritage total to 22 — spanning national parks, historic sites, and cultural landscapes.