| The Netherlands |
Canada |
|
|
| POPULATION |
|
| 16 million people (2002) |
31 million people (2002) |
| 468 per sq km |
3 per sq km |
|
|
| GEOGRAPHY |
|
| 41,526 sq km |
9,984.670 sq km |
| about 320 km from north to south |
about 4,600 km from north to
south |
| about 250 km wide |
about 5,500 km wide |
|
|
| ECONOMY |
|
| Real GDP growth of 3.5% in 2000
(estimate 2001 1.5%) |
Real GDP growth of 4.5% in 2000
(estimate 2001 1%) |
| GDP per capita € 23,369
(2001) |
GDP per capita CAD$ 30,250
(2001) |
| 2.25% inflation (Retail Prices
Index) (2000) |
1,8% inflation (core)
(2000/2001) |
| 2% unemployment (2001) |
7.7% unemployment (March 2002) |
|
|
| TRADE/INVESTMENT |
|
| € 979,214,000 in visible
exports to Canada (2001) |
€ 854,304,000 in visible
exports to the Netherlands (2001) |
| CAD$ 7.02 billion of direct
investment in the Netherlands (2000) (Increased by nearly 5.54 billion since 1990) |
CAD$ 13.68 billion stock of
Dutch investment in Canada (2000) (Statistics Canada) |
| Canadian investments in the
Netherlands are relatively small |
The Netherlands is the 4th
largest foreign investor in Canada |
|
|
| (version: November 2002) |
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