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Between 2018 and 2024, the administration recorded the seven highest years of per-person spending in Canada's history. By 2024, inflation-adjusted spending per person, excluding debt interest costs, reached $11,856, exceeding the 2007-09 financial crisis spending by 10.2% and World War II peak spending by 28.7%. [11]
In 2024 the population of Canada was estimated to be 40,784,365 (Q1, 2024) [1] compared to 36,991,981 in 2021 [2] while the population of the United States was estimated to 339,268,209 in Q1 2024, [3] more than eight times larger than Canada. The United States GDP was $24.8 trillion in 2021. [4]
The index (kuluttajahintaindeksi) is calculated and published by Statistics Finland [10] Finnish food prices have been increasing almost fastest in European Union. In the current year, consumer prices for food are forecast to increase by 4.5 per cent on average. [11]
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) revealed headline inflation rose 0.1% over last month and 5.0% over the prior year in March, a slowdown from February's0.4% month-over-month increase and 6% annual gain.
A CPI is a statistical estimate constructed using the prices of a sample of representative items whose prices are collected periodically. Sub-indices and sub-sub-indices can be computed for different categories and sub-categories of goods and services, which are combined to produce the overall index with weights reflecting their shares in the total of the consumer expenditures covered by the ...
For example, a report may show how June 2024 prices compare to June 2023 prices. Generally, the year-over-year figure is what most people use when talking about inflation.
July 2024 data showed that the inflation rate had dropped to 2.9%, the lowest since March 2021, with used car prices returning to normal following the 2020–2023 global chip shortage. [182] Increases in rent, [183] childcare [184] and electricity [185] still outpaced inflation at around 5%.
Instead, by the end of 2021, the Canadian Real Estate Association's House Price Index had risen by 26.6%, the fastest annual pace on record. [50] Condominiums accounted for the bulk of new housing in BC (54%) and Ontario (59%), [ 51 ] and investors constituted an increasing share of the buyers of these units (41% in Ontario).