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Economy · Indicators snapshot

The Canadian economy in six numbers

The headline indicators economists actually watch — growth, prices, jobs, wages, trade — each pulled straight from Statistics Canada's own tables, with five years of history behind every number. Snapshot as of 18 July 2026.

GDP
$2.35T
Real GDP, annualized
▲ 0.5% MoM▲ 1.1% YoY
Apr 2026StatCan 36-10-0434
Inflation
3.2%
Consumer prices, year over year
2.8% a month ago1.7% a year ago
May 2026StatCan 18-10-0004
Unemployment
6.5%
Labour force survey
▼ 0.1 pt MoM▼ 0.4 pt YoY
Jun 2026StatCan 14-10-0287
Average wage
$37.20
Hourly, all industries
▲ 3.3% YoY
Jun 2026StatCan 14-10-0063
Trade balance
+$4.2B
Merchandise, monthly
Surplus▲ $10.0B vs year ago
May 2026StatCan 12-10-0011
Retail sales
$73.0B
Monthly, seasonally adjusted
▲ 0.5% MoM▲ 3.7% YoY
Apr 2026StatCan 20-10-0056

Methodology. Each figure is the latest published value from the Statistics Canada table cited on its tile, retrieved through the StatCan Web Data Service. Seasonally adjusted series are used wherever StatCan publishes them (the average-hourly-wage series is not seasonally adjusted, so its month-to-month move is noisy — the year-over-year change is the signal). Inflation is the year-over-year change in the all-items Consumer Price Index. Each sparkline traces the last five years. This is a dated snapshot; an auto-updating edition will refresh each tile as its source table posts new data.

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