Country comparison: Canada / Italy

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

General information

	Canada	Italy
Region:	North America	Southern Europe
Area:	9,984,670 km²	301,340 km²
National language:	English, French	Italian
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic (under constitutional monarchy)	Parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1867 AD	1861 AD
Capital:	Ottawa	Rome

Population

Details for Canada and Italy

	Canada	Italy
Population:	38,246,000	59,110,000
Inhabitants/km²:	3.8	196.2
Life expectancy males:	Ø 80 years	Ø 80 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 84 years	Ø 85 years
Average age:	Ø 41.8 years	Ø 46.5 years
Birth rate:	9.50 ‰	6.80 ‰
Death rate:	8.10 ‰	12.50 ‰
Migrationrate:	5.37 ‰	3.20 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Canada	Italy
Political stability:	85	65
Civil rights:	93	66
Health:	79	87
Climate:	33	57
Cost of Living:	35	31
Popularity:	45	59

Economy

Details for Canada and Italy

	Canada	Italy
Currency:	Canadian dollar (1 CAD = 100 Cents)	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	5.2 %	8.1 %
Inflation rate:	6.80 %	8.20 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	102.51 %	78.03 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	24.50 %	59.10 %
Average income:	48,310 US$	35,990 US$
Corruption index:	26 (good)	44 (moderate)

	CAN: total	per 1000 inh.	ITA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,988,336 M US$	51.99 M US$	2,107,703 M US$	35.66 M US$
Gross national product:	1,847,687 M US$	48.31 M US$	2,127,119 M US$	35.99 M US$
Exported goods:	721,859 M US$	18.87 M US$	687,948 M US$	11.64 M US$
Imported goods:	717,826 M US$	18.77 M US$	637,934 M US$	10.79 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Canada and Italy

	CAN: total	per 1000 inh.	ITA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,042,300 km	27.25 km	487,700 km	8.25 km
Railways:	77,932 km	2.04 km	16,779 km	0.28 km
Waterways:	636 km	0.02 km	2,400 km	0.04 km
Harbours:	679	0.0178	1,296	0.0219
Passenger airports:	234	0.0061	43	0.0007

Energy balance

Details for Canada and Italy

	CAN: total	per 1000 inh.	ITA: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	1.342 tn kWh	35.10 m kWh	1.064 tn kWh	18.00 m kWh
Energy consumption:	539.70 bn kWh	14.11 m kWh	286.38 bn kWh	4.84 m kWh
Energy production:	630.03 bn kWh	16.47 m kWh	271.88 bn kWh	4.60 m kWh
Energy export:	67.20 bn kWh	1.76 m kWh	7.59 bn kWh	128,354.64 kWh
Energy imports:	9.80 bn kWh	256,235.22 kWh	39.79 bn kWh	673,104.78 kWh
CO2 emissions:	580.21 m t	15,170.51 t	317.24 m t	5,366.95 t

Telecommunication

Details for Canada and Italy

	Canada	Italy
International dialing:	+1	+39
Internet domain:	.ca	.it

	CAN total	CAN per 1000 inh.	ITA total	ITA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	12,928,000	338	19,994,902	338
Mobile cellulars:	32,723,000	856	78,114,933	1322
Internet server:	8,743,000	229	25,662,000	434
Internet users:	35,301,158	923	44,250,873	749
Broadband Internet:	16,051,704	420	18,686,502	316

Healthcare system

Details for Canada and Italy

	Canada	Italy
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	2.52	3.14
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.61	4.09
Diabetes:	7.6 %	5.0 %
Tuberculosis:	0.05 ‰	0.05 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	79.0 %	95.0 %
Smokers:	13.0 %	23.1 %

Climate

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

	Canada	Italy
Daytime temperatures:	7.5 °C	17.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	-2.4 °C	10.0 °C
Rel. humidity:	72 %	70 %
Rain days:	8.1	6.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.4	6.2

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
Italy
Canada

Native languages

	Canada	Italy
Italian:	1.3 %	94.1 %
English:	58.7 %	n/a
French:	22.0 %	0.5 %
Sardinian:	n/a	2.7 %
Punjabi:	1.4 %	n/a
German:	1.3 %	0.5 %
Spanish:	1.3 %	n/a
Friuli:	n/a	1.2 %
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
Albanian:	n/a	0.2 %
Slovenian:	n/a	0.2 %
Romany:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	7.5 %	0.4 %

Religions

	Canada	Italy
Christianity:	67.2 %	91.6 %
Nondenominational:	23.9 %	5.8 %
Islam:	3.2 %	1.9 %
Hinduism:	1.5 %	0.2 %
Sikhism:	1.4 %	0.1 %
Buddhism:	1.1 %	0.3 %
Jewry:	1.1 %	0.1 %
other:	0.6 %	0.0 %

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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