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Canada's fertility rate hit a record low of 1.4 children born per woman in 2020, [32] below the population replacement level, which stands at 2.1 births per woman. In 2020, Canada also experienced the country's lowest number of births in 15 years, [32] also seeing the largest annual drop in childbirths (−3.6%) in a quarter of a century. [32]
Canada spends an average of about 5.3 percent of its GDP on education. [29] The country invests heavily in tertiary education (more than US$20,000 per student). [30] As of 2022, 89 percent of adults aged 25 to 64 have earned the equivalent of a high-school degree, compared to an OECD average of 75 percent.
The average eligible voter turnout for Canada's general elections since 1867 has been 70.5% [citation needed] The highest voter turnouts were in 1958, 1962, and 1963, when eligible voter turnout was 79% and over, roughly 45% the total population. [citation needed] The lowest voter turnout on record was in 2008, when eligible voter turnout fell ...
Note: "Poverty among the elderly in Canada is at 6.7 per cent, much lower than for children or the working-age population." 2018 U.S. News & World Report Best Countries for Education [12] 4 - Measures quality of education in the 80 most developed countries 2022 State of World Liberty Project: State of World Liberty Index [13] 4 Top 5%
Map of the provinces and territories of Canada by HDI in 2021. This is a list of Canadian provinces and territories by their Human Development Index, which is a comparative measure of life expectancy, literacy, education, standard of living and overall well-being of the citizens in each province and territory. All Canadian provinces and ...
Canada by province and territory, showing the percentage of the population aged 25 to 64 who had a bachelor's degree or higher, and the percentage point change from 2016 to 2021. [1] Higher education in Canada includes provincial, territorial, Indigenous and military higher education systems. The ideal objective of Canadian higher education is ...
An Education index is a component of the Human Development Index published every year by the United Nations Development Programme. Alongside the Economical indicators and Life Expectancy Index, it helps measure the educational attainment. GNI (PPP) per capita and life expectancy are also used with the education index to get the HDI of each country.
According to the 2021 census by Statistics Canada, 1,547,870 Canadians identified as Black, constituting 4.3% of the entire Canadian population. [18] Of the black population, 10 per cent identified as mixed-race of "white and black". [19] The five most black-populated provinces in 2021 were Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, British Columbia, and ...