The 1994 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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       industrial and urban. In the 1980s, Canada registered one of the

       highest rates of real growth among the OECD nations, averaging about

       3.2%. With its great natural resources, skilled labor force, and

       modern capital plant, Canada has excellent economic prospects,

       although the country still faces high unemployment and a growing debt.

       Moreover, the continuing constitutional impasse between English- and

       French-speaking areas has observers discussing a possible split in the

       confederation; foreign investors have become edgy.

       National product:

       GDP - purchasing power equivalent - $617.7 billion (1993)

       National product real growth rate:

       2.4% (1993)

       National product per capita:

       $22,200 (1993)

       Inflation rate (consumer prices):

       1.9% (1993)

       Unemployment rate:

       11% (December 1993)

       Budget:

       revenues:

       $92.34 billion (Federal)

       expenditures:

       $123.04 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (FY93 est.)

       Exports:

       $133.9 billion (f.o.b., 1993)

       commodities:

       newsprint, wood pulp, timber, crude petroleum, machinery, natural gas,

       aluminum, motor vehicles and parts; telecommunications equipment

       partners:

       US, Japan, UK, Germany, South Korea, Netherlands, China

       Imports:

       $125.3 billion (c.i.f., 1993)

       commodities:

       crude oil, chemicals, motor vehicles and parts, durable consumer

       goods, electronic computers; telecommunications equipment and parts

       partners:

       US, Japan, UK, Germany, France, Mexico, Taiwan, South Korea

       External debt:

       $435 billion (1993)

       Industrial production:

       growth rate 3.5% (1993)

       Electricity:

       capacity:

       109,340,000 kW

       production:

       493 billion kWh

       consumption per capita:

       17,900 kWh (1992)

       Industries:

       processed and unprocessed minerals, food products, wood and paper

       products, transportation equipment, chemicals, fish products,

       petroleum and natural gas

       Agriculture:

       accounts for about 3% of GDP; one of the world's major producers and

       exporters of grain (wheat and barley); key source of US agricultural

       imports; large forest resources cover 35% of total land area;

       commercial fisheries provide annual catch of 1.5 million metric tons,

       of which 75% is exported

       Illicit drugs:

       illicit producer of cannabis for the domestic drug market; use of

       hydroponics technology permits growers to plant large quantities of

       high-quality marijuana indoors; growing role as a transit point for

       heroin and cocaine entering the US market

       Economic aid:

       donor:

       ODA and OOF commitments (1970–89), $7.2 billion

       Currency:

       1 Canadian dollar (Can$) = 100 cents

       Exchange rates:

       Canadian dollars (Can$) per US$1 - 1.3174 (January 1994), 1.2901

       (1993), 1.2087 (1992), 1.1457 (1991), 1.1668 (1990), 1.1840 (1989)

       Fiscal year:

       1 April - 31 March

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      Railroads:

       146,444 km total; two major transcontinental freight railway systems -

       Canadian National (government owned) and Canadian Pacific Railway;

       passenger service - VIA (government operated); 158 km is electrified

       Highways:

       total:

       884,272 km

       paved:

       250,023 km

       unpaved:

       gravel 462,913 km; earth 171,336 km

       Inland waterways:

       3,000 km, including Saint Lawrence Seaway

       Pipelines:

       crude and refined oil 23,564 km; natural gas 74,980 km

       Ports:

       Halifax, Montreal, Quebec, Saint John (New Brunswick), Saint John's

       (Newfoundland), Toronto, Vancouver

       Merchant marine:

       59 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 448,357 GRT/639,319 DWT, bulk 9,

       cargo 8, chemical tanker 4, container 1, oil tanker 22, passenger 1,

       passenger-cargo 1, railcar carrier 2, roll-on/roll-off cargo 6,

       short-sea passenger 3, specialized СКАЧАТЬ