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AVERAGE EXCHANGE RATE
$
(Percentage points)
GDP Canada
investment
2018 actual
1.9 1.2 -0.1 0.7 0.2 1 -0.9 -0.3
2019 2020 2021 projected projected projected
1.3 1.9 2 1.2 1.1 1 -0.2 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.4 -0.1 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 -0.4 -0.4 -0.6
0 -0.1 0
USD/CAD EUR/CAD CAD/MXN
37,412,852
2019 feb
1.323 1.495 14.54
€ $
2018
1.296 1.531 14.8
(Source: Bank of Canada, Canada Monetary Report, July 10, 2019) GDP=Gross Domestic Product
GDP = Consumption + Housing + Government + Investment + Exports – Imports +/- Inventory
CANADIAN ECONOMY:
INFLATION (CONSUMER PRICE INDEX)
Between January 1 and April 1, 2019, Canada’s population grew by 98,410
Compared with the first quarter of 2018, the number of new immigrants fell from 79,957 to 65,959.
(Source: Bank of Canada, Canada Monetary Report, July 10, 2019)
Median after-tax income, economic families and persons not in an economic family - canada (2017)
$59,800 3.3%
(annual change)
Median age (years) - canada (July 1, 2018} 40.8
0%
consumer price 1.4%
index-canada
(12-month change)
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
January 2019
0.2 pts
CANADA
5.80%
January 2019
Source: www150.statcan.gc.ca
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+0.3%
On April 1, 2019
2018 actual
2.3
2019 2020 2021
canadian economy: contribution to the gdp growth
Inflation (CPI)
1.8 1.9 2
(year-over-year change)
projected projected
projected