The Atlas
Every place has its own line
Fourteen cities, each beside the others, then the country in relief and the world on the map.
The Field
The country in relief
Table view
- CalgaryAlbertaUnemployment rate 6.6%
- EdmontonAlbertaUnemployment rate 7.1%
- HalifaxNova ScotiaUnemployment rate 5.4%
- HamiltonOntarioUnemployment rate 7.6%
- Kitchener–WaterlooOntarioUnemployment rate 7.1%
- LondonOntarioUnemployment rate 8.1%
- MontréalQuebecUnemployment rate 6.9%
- Ottawa–GatineauOntarioUnemployment rate 7.1%
- QuébecQuebecUnemployment rate 4.5%
- ReginaSaskatchewanUnemployment rate 5.9%
- SaskatoonSaskatchewanUnemployment rate 5.9%
- TorontoOntarioUnemployment rate 7.1%
- VancouverBritish ColumbiaUnemployment rate 6.7%
- WinnipegManitobaUnemployment rate 5.0%
Unemployment rate, three-month moving average, October 2026. Source: Statistics Canada.
From the world to the city
Choose one indicator and look at where it is high and low: across the world, across Canada's provinces and territories, and then at the large metropolitan areas. Each map shows the latest value of one measured indicator, with the year, and nothing is coloured where no data are held.
World: latest value of one indicator
Natural Earth boundaries (public domain); World Bank data and Statistics Canada trade shares. The year differs by country and is shown.
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Data table for this layer (keyboard and screen-reader alternative)
Canada: latest value of one provincial indicator, with metropolitan markers
Statistics Canada and CMHC. Metropolitan values use their own definitions (three-month averages, July 1 population) and are never coloured on the provincial scale.
Large circles are the six large cities (select one for its panel). Small hollow marks open the data profiles of eight more metropolitan areas (the Winnipeg and Halifax profiles link on to their city pages): Winnipeg, Halifax, Québec, Hamilton, Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo, London, Saskatoon, Regina.
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Data table for this layer (keyboard and screen-reader alternative)
Four levels, one thread
The same question can be asked at each level; the atlas shows what is measured at each and what is not.
| Level | What the atlas shows | What it does not |
|---|---|---|
| World | 16 layers: growth, size, income per person, population, inflation, unemployment, trade, government debt, FDI, manufacturing, energy dependence, renewables, R&D, ageing, and Canada's export and import shares by partner. | No bilateral flows between other countries, no shipping or energy routes, no company or project locations: no licensed open data are held. |
| Canada | 17 provincial layers with the latest value for each province. | Territories are not coloured for layers where Statistics Canada does not publish them. Provincial values are not summed into city values. |
| Metropolitan area | Markers for the six large cities (large circles), with unemployment, employment rate, inflation and population in the panel and a link to the city report; eight more areas appear as small marks that open their data profiles. | Metropolitan figures use different definitions from provincial ones and are never put on the same colour scale. |
| City report |
| Every city has a dashboard of verified data. |
Layers that are not offered, and why
- Investment and projects: company-reported projects appear only after a person has verified them; the provincial registry inventories are mapped in the Investment monitor.
- Infrastructure and energy flows: no open, licensed, verified dataset has been added, so none is drawn.
- Economic exposure and impact: exposure is shown where it is measured (trade shares, industry shares) and in the relationship explorer; the atlas never colours the modelled effect of a relationship.
A rotatable globe view shows the same world layers; the maps here remain the primary, accessible views.