Country comparison: Canada / Ireland

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Canada and Ireland. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Canada	Ireland
Region:	North America	Northern Europe
Area:	9,984,670 km²	70,280 km²
National language:	English, French	English, Irish
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic (under constitutional monarchy)	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1867 AD	1921 AD
Capital:	Ottawa	Dublin

Population

Details for Canada and Ireland

	Canada	Ireland
Population:	38,246,000	5,033,000
Inhabitants/km²:	3.8	71.6
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 80 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 84 years
Average age:	Ø 41.8 years	Ø 37.8 years
Birth rate:	9.60 ‰	11.60 ‰
Death rate:	7.80 ‰	6.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	5.37 ‰	3.76 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Canada	Ireland
Political stability:	85	82
Civil rights:	93	93
Health:	79	81
Climate:	33	2
Cost of Living:	35	35
Popularity:	45	37

Economy

Details for Canada and Ireland

	Canada	Ireland
Currency:	Canadian dollar (1 CAD = 100 Cents)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	5.2 %	4.4 %
Inflation rate:	6.80 %	7.81 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	102.51 %	111.50 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	24.50 %	26.10 %
Average income:	48,310 US$	76,110 US$
Government debt (% of GDP):	112.85 %	55.33 %
Government debt (% of GDP):	55.55 %	61.87 %
Corruption index:	26 (good)	23 (good)

	CAN: total	per 1000 inh.	IRL: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,988,336 M US$	51.99 M US$	504,183 M US$	100.17 M US$
Gross national product:	1,847,687 M US$	48.31 M US$	383,084 M US$	76.11 M US$
Exported goods:	721,859 M US$	18.87 M US$	677,028 M US$	134.51 M US$
Imported goods:	717,826 M US$	18.77 M US$	477,544 M US$	94.88 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Canada and Ireland

	CAN: total	per 1000 inh.	IRL: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,042,300 km	27.25 km	99,830 km	19.83 km
Railways:	77,932 km	2.04 km	4,301 km	0.85 km
Waterways:	636 km	0.02 km	956 km	0.19 km
Harbours:	679	0.0178	96	0.0191
Passenger airports:	234	0.0061	12	0.0024

Energy balance

Details for Canada and Ireland

	CAN: total	per 1000 inh.	IRL: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	1.342 tn kWh	35.10 m kWh	100.13 bn kWh	19.89 m kWh
Energy consumption:	539.70 bn kWh	14.11 m kWh	30.63 bn kWh	6.09 m kWh
Energy production:	630.03 bn kWh	16.47 m kWh	33.09 bn kWh	6.57 m kWh
Energy export:	67.20 bn kWh	1.76 m kWh	1.91 bn kWh	380,078.94 kWh
Energy imports:	9.80 bn kWh	256,235.22 kWh	1.76 bn kWh	349,879.25 kWh
CO2 emissions:	580.21 m t	15,170.51 t	35.75 m t	7,103.07 t

Telecommunication

Details for Canada and Ireland

	Canada	Ireland
International dialing:	+1	+353
Internet domain:	.ca	.ie

	CAN total	CAN per 1000 inh.	IRL total	IRL per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	12,928,000	338	1,595,061	317
Mobile cellulars:	32,723,000	856	5,373,865	1068
Internet server:	8,743,000	229	1,387,000	276
Internet users:	35,301,158	923	4,630,506	920
Broadband Internet:	16,051,704	420	1,576,997	313

Healthcare system

Details for Canada and Ireland

	Canada	Ireland
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	2.52	2.97
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.61	3.09
Diabetes:	7.6 %	3.2 %
Tuberculosis:	0.05 ‰	0.05 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	79.0 %	6.0 %
Smokers:	13.0 %	20.8 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Canada and Ireland

	Canada	Ireland
Daytime temperatures:	7.5 °C	13.2 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	-2.4 °C	6.8 °C
Rel. humidity:	72 %	83 %
Rain days:	8.1	14.6
Sunshine hours per day:	5.4	3.8

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
Ireland
Canada

Native languages

	Canada	Ireland
English:	58.7 %	98.4 %
French:	22.0 %	n/a
Irish:	n/a	1.6 %
Punjabi:	1.4 %	n/a
German:	1.3 %	n/a
Italian:	1.3 %	n/a
Spanish:	1.3 %	n/a
Chinese:	1.2 %	n/a
Tagalog:	1.2 %	n/a
Arabic:	1.1 %	n/a
Portuguese:	0.7 %	n/a
Polish:	0.7 %	n/a
Ukrainian:	0.6 %	n/a
Dutch:	0.5 %	n/a
Russian:	0.4 %	n/a
Eskimo:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	7.5 %	0.0 %

Religions

	Canada	Ireland
Christianity:	67.2 %	90.1 %
Nondenominational:	23.9 %	5.7 %
Islam:	3.2 %	1.1 %
Hinduism:	1.5 %	n/a
Sikhism:	1.4 %	n/a
Buddhism:	1.1 %	n/a
Jewry:	1.1 %	n/a
other:	0.6 %	3.1 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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