Fast Facts Friday: April 5, 2024

Catch up on the latest facts and read more via the links below in case you missed them this week!

1. In 2022, 42% of Canadians aged 15 years or older provided unpaid care to children younger than 15 or to people aged 15 or older with a long-term condition or disability. – Read more
2. In January 2024, primary energy production was down 1.2% year over year to 2.0 million terajoules with four of the six subsectors posting declines. – Read more
3. Gross domestic income (GDI), also known as income-based gross domestic product (GDP), earned by Indigenous people was estimated at $56.1 billion in 2021, an increase of 10.0% from 2020. – Read more
4. In 2022, approximately $528 billion of goods and services moved across provincial and territorial borders– equal to 18.8% of Canada’s GDP. – Read more
5. In February 2024, significant growth was observed in Canada's merchandise exports and imports. Exports increased 5.8%, while imports rose 4.6%. – Read more
6. Employment was little changed in March 2024 and the unemployment rate rose 0.3 percentage points to 6.1%. – Read more
7. New findings from the 2022 Canadian Survey on Disability (CSD) showed that 27% of Canadians aged 15 years and older, or 8.0 million people, had one or more disabilities that limited them in their daily activities. – Read more
8. Are you among the one in six near the eclipse? Our geomatics team did some calculations and figured out that about one in six Canadians are within the path of totality! Of the nearly 37 million Canadians counted in the 2021 Census of Population, that’s about 6.1 million. – Read more