Access to a highly skilled workforce
Canada ’s highly skilled, multilingual workforce ranks high among competing countries and stimulates the creation of global teams in the workplace.
- Canada ’s health science research community comprises over 30,000 investigators in 16 medical schools, and over 100 teaching hospitals and research institutes.
- Among the OECD countries, Canada has the highest percentage of individuals with at least a college or university education ( see Table 1).
- Canada leads the G-7 in terms of the percentage of GDP spent on public education ( see Table 2).
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Table 1: Higher Education Achievement |
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Country |
% |
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Canada |
41 |
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U.S.A. |
37 |
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Ireland |
36 |
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Japan |
34 |
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Finland |
32 |
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Sweden |
32 |
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Australia |
29 |
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New Zealand |
29 |
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Norway |
29 |
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Belgium |
27 |
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Source: 2001 Census, Statistics Canada and
The Globe and Mail, March 12, 2003 |
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Table 2: Public Expenditure on Education |
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Country |
% |
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Canada |
8.4 |
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U.S.A. |
7.5 |
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France |
6.0 |
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Italy |
4.9 |
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Germany |
4.6 |
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U.K. |
4.4 |
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Japan |
3.6 |
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Source: 2001 Census, Statistics Canada and
The Globe and Mail, March 12, 2003 |