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Canada: Gross capital formation

Millions of local currency · 1871–2025 · 155 observations · forecasts to 2031 · inv

2025
739 billionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+4.3%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+4.6%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$529 billionUS dollars

Gross capital formation

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031957,259Forecast
2030919,187Forecast
2029882,354Forecast
2028846,617Forecast
2027811,463Forecast
2026776,109Forecast
2025739,343
2024709,013
2023695,137
2022714,232
2021612,449
2020503,718
2019533,231
2018522,719
2017503,322
2016462,354

Sources

  • Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1871–2020
  • Jones & Obstfeld1926–1945
  • Statistics Canada1926–1976
  • Mitchell1926–1993
  • Penn World Table1950–2019
  • WDI (archive)1960–1996
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1961–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1961–2025
  • World Development Indicators1961–2025
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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