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North America > Canada > People

CANADIAN PEOPLE STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Age at first marriage for men 29 years [17th of 19]
Age at first marriage for women 27.4 years [14th of 19]
Age structure > 0-14 years 17.9 [188th of 226]
Average size of households 2.6 [5th of 17]
Birth rate 10.29 births/1,000 population Time series [191st of 226]
Chinese population 910,000 [9th of 127]
Death rate 7.61 deaths/1,000 population Time series [120th of 226]
Divorce rate 2.46 per 1,000 people [8th of 34]
Ethnic groups
British Isles origin 28%, French origin 23%, other European 15%, Amerindian 2%, other, mostly Asian, African, Arab 6%, mixed background 26%
Nobel prize laureates 10 [12th of 44]
Population 33,212,696 Time series [37th of 242]
Population growth rate 0.83% Time series [136th of 235]
Population in 2015 35,051 [40th of 225]
Projected population growth 18.05% [96th of 141]
Sex ratio > 15-64 years 1.01 [91st of 223]
Sex ratio > Under 15 years 1.05 male(s)/female Time series [85th of 224]
Teenage birth rate 20.2 [8th of 28]
Total fertility rate 1.57 children born/woman Time series [182nd of 225]
Total Population 33,098,932 [36th of 227]
Urbanization 79 [40th of 204]

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SOURCES: 1980 figures and 1999 figures for EU countries are from European Social Statistics Demography 2001. Australian figures are from ABS, Year Book Australia 2003 - Population. Marriages and Divorces and the latest figure is for 2001. Figures for other European and North American countries come from UN Economic Commission for Europe, Trends in Europe and North America 2001 (UN, NY, 2001). New Zealand figures from Maureen Baker, Families, Labour and Love (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2001). Japanese figures from Japan Almanac 1998 (Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo). Figures for other countries from UN Statistics Division, The World's Women 2000: Trends and Statistics. Spanish Statistical Institute; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Division, Trends in Europe and North America 2001 (UN Economic Commission for Europe, NY, 2001), p. 74; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; University Libraries, Ohio University; divorcereform.org2004; The Nobel Foundation; World Development Indicators database and CIA World Factbook; Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision and World Urbanization Prospects: http://esa.un.org/unpp; Population Reference Bureau, 2001 World Population Data Sheet, Washington, DC: PRB, 2001. via ciesin.org; UNICEF; U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, International Programs Center Spanish Statistical Institute; Population Division of the United Nations Secretariat, World Urbanization Prospects: The 2001 Revision, Data Tables and Highlights (ESA/P/WP.173, 20 March 2002)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Canada, Canada & Newfoundland

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