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Location: Northern North America, bordering the North
Atlantic Ocean and North Pacific Ocean, north of the
conterminous US
Map references: North America
People
Population: 28,820,671 (July 1996 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 21% (male 3,032,458; female 2,889,603)
15-64 years: 67% (male 9,663,955; female 9,660,648)
65 years and over: 12% (male 1,501,542; female
2,072,465) (July 1996 est.)
Population growth rate: 1.06% (1996 est.)
Infant mortality rate: 6.1 deaths/1,000 live births
(1996 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 79.07 years
male: 75.67 years
female: 82.65 years (1996 est.)
Ethnic divisions: British Isles origin 40%, French
origin 27%, other European 20%, indigenous Indian and Eskimo
1.5%, other, mostly Asian 11.5%
Religions: Roman Catholic 45%, United Church 12%,
Anglican 8%, other 35% (1991)
Languages: English (official), French (official)
Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1986
est.)
total population: 97%
male: NA%
female: NA%
Government
Country Abbreviation: CA
Type of government: confederation with parliamentary
democracy
Independence: 1 July 1867 (from UK)
National holiday:
Constitution:
Legal system: based on English common law, except in
Quebec, where civil law system based on French law prevails;
accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations
Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal
Economy
Economic overview:
GDP: purchasing power parity - $694 billion (1995 est.)
GDP real growth rate: 2.1% (1995 est.)
GDP per capita: $24,400 (1995 est.)
Unemployment rate: 9.5% (1995)
Communications
Telephones: 15.3 million (1990)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 900, FM 29, shortwave 0
Radios: NA
Television broadcast stations: 70 (repeaters 1,400)
(1991)
Televisions: 11.53 million (1983 est.)
Canadian Armed Forces (includes Land Forces Command or LC,
Maritime Command or MC, Air Command or AC, Communications
Command or CC, Training Command or TC), Royal Canadian Mounted
Police (RCMP)
Manpower availability:
males age 15-49: 7,645,245
males fit for military service: 6,575,057
males reach military age (17) annually: 197,688 (1996
est.)
Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $9.0
billion, 1.6% of GDP (FY95/96)
*Source: World Factbook 1996, U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency
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