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Geography

Location: Northern North America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean and North Pacific Ocean, north of the conterminous US

Area:
total area: 9,976,140 sq km
land area: 9,220,970 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than US

Land boundaries: total 8,893 km, US 8,893 km (includes 2,477 km with Alaska)

Coastline: 243,791 km


People

Population: 28,434,545 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 21% (female 2,874,705; male 3,016,050)
15-64 years: 67% (female 9,529,272; male 9,531,107)
65 years and over: 12% (female 2,022,324; male 1,461,087)

Population growth rate: 1.09% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 13.74 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 7.43 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 4.55 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 6.8 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 78.29 years
male: 74.93 years
female: 81.81 years

Total fertility rate: 1.83 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: British Isles origin 40%, French origin 27%, other European 20%, indigenous Indian and Eskimo 1.5%

Religions: Roman Catholic 46%, United Church 16%, Anglican 10%, other 28%

Languages: English (official), French (official)

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1986)
total population: 97%
male:
female:


Government

Names:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Canada

Type: confederation with parliamentary democracy

Capital: Ottawa

Independence: 1 July 1867 (from UK)

Constitution: amended British North America Act 1867 patriated to Canada 17 April1982; charter of rights and unwritten customs


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $639.8 billion

National product real growth rate: 4.5%

National product per capita: $22,760

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 0.2%

Unemployment rate: 9.6%

Electricity:
capacity: 108,090,000 kW
production: 511 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 16,133 kWh



Olympic Factoid
Pin trading was one of the most popular Olympic sports, with more than 1.2 million pins changing hands during the Games in the Coca Cola Pin Trading Center at Centennial Olympic Park.