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GDP per Person: Canada vs. U.S.
Cumulative change in real GDP per person since the first quarter of 2022, %
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Output per person in the two North American neighbors since early 2022. The widening gap is one read on diverging living standards.
What this chart reads
- Canada Real GDP per Personas “Canada”behindlatest 2026-04-01
- Real GDP per capitaas “United States”behindlatest 2026-04-01
Sources
Canada Real GDP per Person. Source: Statistics Canada, table 36-10-0104-01 and 17-10-0009-01 (vector v62305752), "Gross domestic product at market prices, chained (2017) dollars, seasonally adjusted at annual rates ÷ population estimates, quarterly". Palanor pulls it from Statistics Canada's Web Data Service every day and rewrites recent periods so revisions carry through. Adapted from Statistics Canada. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Real GDP per capita. Source: Palanor pulls this series from the FRED API (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) nightly. The data originate with the Bureau of Economic Analysis and are published as FRED series A939RX0Q048SBEA.
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