Economic performance of Canada relative to the United States

Chart is a line chart comparing the economic performance of Canada and the United States, measured by labour productivity, real gross domestic product per capita and real gross national income per capita, from the first quarter of 1997 to the third quarter of 2013.

According to the labour productivity measure, Canada fell 18.6% relative to the United States over this time period.

Measured by real gross domestic product per capita, Canada improved relative to the United States by 8.1%.

Measured by real gross national income per capita, Canada improved relative to the United States by 1.4%.

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Economic performance of Canada relative to the United States
Table summary
This table displays the results of Economic performance of Canada relative to the United States. The information is grouped by Year (appearing as row headers), Quater, Real GDP per capita, Real GNI per capita and Labour productivity, calculated using Index (1997=100) units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year Quarter Real GDP per capita Real GNI per capita Labour productivity
Index (1997=100)
1997 I 100.0 100.0 100.0
II 99.8 99.9 99.6
III 99.8 99.8 98.6
IV 100.0 100.2 98.7
1998 I 100.6 99.5 100.0
II 100.0 98.5 99.3
III 99.7 96.9 98.3
IV 99.4 96.7 98.4
1999 I 100.2 97.7 98.6
II 100.4 99.0 98.2
III 100.6 99.7 99.0
IV 100.4 99.0 97.6
2000 I 101.6 102.3 99.5
II 101.0 101.8 98.1
III 102.0 103.7 99.2
IV 101.6 103.6 97.2
2001 I 102.4 104.7 97.6
II 102.0 103.2 97.0
III 102.2 102.0 96.8
IV 102.5 99.8 97.1
2002 I 102.8 101.1 95.3
II 102.9 102.8 94.5
III 103.2 102.7 94.1
IV 103.7 103.1 94.3
2003 I 103.9 105.7 93.2
II 102.8 103.0 93.1
III 101.5 102.7 90.2
IV 101.1 102.6 89.3
2004 I 101.2 103.6 88.7
II 101.7 104.6 88.3
III 101.9 105.4 88.8
IV 101.6 105.2 88.6
2005 I 101.0 104.5 88.4
II 101.2 105.2 88.8
III 101.6 106.9 89.2
IV 101.9 108.0 90.0
2006 I 101.6 107.2 89.6
II 101.3 107.5 88.9
III 101.3 107.7 89.2
IV 100.9 106.5 89.0
2007 I 101.5 107.2 89.2
II 101.6 108.1 88.1
III 101.4 108.0 87.1
IV 101.3 109.5 86.3
2008 I 102.0 112.0 86.7
II 102.0 113.3 86.1
III 103.1 113.3 86.4
IV 104.1 109.0 86.7
2009 I 103.2 106.2 85.9
II 102.3 106.2 84.1
III 102.5 107.1 82.7
IV 102.6 108.7 82.7
2010 I 103.6 109.9 83.4
II 103.3 108.9 82.4
III 102.9 107.9 82.4
IV 103.2 109.3 82.4
2011 I 104.0 111.2 83.6
II 103.1 110.8 82.5
III 104.1 110.9 83.3
IV 103.2 109.7 83.1
2012 I 102.4 109.7 82.8
II 102.4 109.2 82.0
III 101.8 108.1 81.2
IV 101.8 108.3 81.6
2013 I 102.1 109.6 81.6
II 101.8 108.7 81.6
III 101.4 108.1 81.4