
Canada and the United States share the world’s longest land border, which handles daily over $2 billion in trade and the thousands of people who cross it for business or pleasure.
Here are a few key numbers that highlight the close ties that bind our two countries:
- The United States was again Canada’s largest trading partner in 2022, with over $960.9 billion in total trade (on a customs basis), accounting for close to two-thirds (63.4%) of the more than $1.5 trillion in worldwide trade.
- Energy products made up one-third (33.5%) of the $598.0 billion worth of exports to the United States in 2022.
- Motor vehicles and parts made up nearly one-fifth (19.4%) of the $362.9 billion in imports from the United States.
- The direct investment position from the United States in Canada was $500.7 billion in 2021, accounting for nearly half (46.9%) of the total direct investment in Canada. Canada’s direct investment position in the United States was $744.9 billion, or 47.9% of its total direct investment abroad.
- The 14.0 million US residents that visited Canada in 2022 was four times the number of US arrivals recorded in 2021 and over half (55.9%) of that recorded in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- In February 2023, US residents took 618,900 trips by automobile to Canada and Canadian residents made 1.3 million return trips by automobile from the United States. Both were roughly three-quarters of such trips taken in pre-pandemic February 2020.
- In 2021, two out of three Canadians (66%) lived within 100 kilometres of the southern Canada-US border.
To learn more, visit the International trade statistics hub.
For more data and insights on areas touched by the socioeconomic relationship between Canada and the United States, see the Focus on Canada and the United States webpage.
Contact information
For more information, contact the Statistical Information Service (toll-free 1-800-263-1136; 514-283-8300; infostats@statcan.gc.ca) or Media Relations (statcan.mediahotline-ligneinfomedias.statcan@statcan.gc.ca).