The Daily Monday, July 19, 2021
Press Release
Study: Canada’s oceans and the economic contribution of marine sectors, 2014 to 2018
Canada has the longest coastline in the world, and its marine sectors make a significant contribution to provincial, regional and national economies. In 2016, 14% of Canada’s population lived within 10 km of the coast. In 2018, coastal provinces depended on Canada’s oceans for 3.8% of employment and 4.1% of gross domestic product (GDP). Newfoundland and Labrador had the highest marine dependence in 2018, with 16.8% of jobs and 30.0% of GDP relying on marine sectors.
Data visualization product of the Infrastructure Economic Account: Environmental perspective, 2020
Statistics Canada has launched a new component of the Infrastructure Statistics Hub, the Environmental Perspective. This interactive dashboard enables users to see the composition of the main environmental perspective indicators, by province and territory and by infrastructure asset type. The indicators include greenhouse gas emissions caused by the production of infrastructure assets, greenhouse gas emissions per value added, and clean input proportion.
Annual Mineral Production Survey, 2019 and 2020 (preliminary data)
Mineral production estimates from the Annual Mineral Production Survey are now available for reference year 2019. These data are published together with the 2020 preliminary estimates of mineral production in Canada.
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