Table 3
Summary statistics on the value of unpaid household work by method, Canada, 2015 to 2019

Summary statistics on the value of unpaid household work by method, Canada, 2015 to 2019
	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
	millions of dollars	millions of dollars	millions of dollars	millions of dollars	millions of dollars
Comparative statistics
Household disposable income (HDI)	1,129,880	1,132,758	1,189,367	1,224,918	1,283,163
Gross domestic product (GDP)	1,990,441	2,025,535	2,140,641	2,235,675	2,311,294
	millions of hours	millions of hours	millions of hours	millions of hours	millions of hours
Hours of unpaid household work	31,592	31,592	31,592	31,592	31,592
	millions of dollars	millions of dollars	millions of dollars	millions of dollars	millions of dollars
Value of unpaid household work
Net opportunity cost	682,823	702,577	713,848	732,662	754,943
Gross opportunity cost	778,238	798,884	810,958	834,383	860,150
Replacement cost	516,915	530,857	543,506	571,181	581,645
	%	%	%	%	%
Value of unpaid household work as a percentage of GDP
Net opportunity cost	34.3	34.7	33.3	32.8	32.7
Gross opportunity cost	39.1	39.4	37.9	37.3	37.2
Replacement cost	26.0	26.2	25.4	25.5	25.2
Value of unpaid household work as a percentage of HDI
Net opportunity cost	60.4	62.0	60.0	59.8	58.8
Gross opportunity cost	68.9	70.5	68.2	68.1	67.0
Replacement cost	45.7	46.9	45.7	46.6	45.3
	dollars	dollars	dollars	dollars	dollars
Value of unpaid household work per capita
Net opportunity cost	27,280	28,070	28,520	29,270	30,160
Gross opportunity cost	31,100	31,920	32,400	33,340	34,370
Replacement cost	20,650	21,210	21,720	22,820	23,240

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