Canada
Canada in numbers
38 measures of Canada from 1800 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending1.63% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$37.5B in 2025
- Military spending per person$939 in 2025
- Military share of state spending3.7% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel72,000 people in 2020
- National power0.81% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.35% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports83 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports312 million TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Canada with…
- Canada vs India
- Canada vs China
- Canada vs United States
- Canada vs Indonesia
- Canada vs Pakistan
- Canada vs Nigeria
- Canada vs Brazil
- Canada vs Bangladesh
- Canada vs Russia
- Canada vs Ethiopia
- Canada vs Mexico
- Canada vs Japan
- Canada vs Egypt
- Canada vs Philippines
- Canada vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Canada vs Vietnam
- Canada vs Iran
- Canada vs Türkiye
- Canada vs Germany
- Canada vs Thailand
- Canada vs Tanzania
- Canada vs United Kingdom
- Canada vs France
- Canada vs South Africa
- Canada vs Italy
- Canada vs Kenya
- Canada vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Canada vs Colombia
- Canada vs South Korea
- Canada vs Sudan
- Canada vs Spain
- Canada vs Argentina
- Canada vs Saudi Arabia
- Canada vs Poland
- Canada vs Australia
- Canada vs Netherlands
- Canada vs Belgium
- Canada vs United Arab Emirates
- Canada vs Sweden
- Canada vs Israel
- Canada vs Austria
- Canada vs Switzerland
- Canada vs Singapore
- Canada vs Ireland
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time