Canada vs South America: Gross Fixed Capital Formation — Value US$
Gross Fixed Capital Formation — Value US$ over time
- Canada
- South America
How they compare
South America currently reports 753,486 million USD against 500,302 million USD in Canada, a difference of 253,184 million USD.
That makes South America's figure about 1.5 times Canada's.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 55 shared years of data; in 1970 it was South America ahead.
Canada ranks 10th and South America ranks 16th of 203 countries.
South America has averaged higher in every one of the 6 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Canada | South America | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 38,550 million USD | 60,391 million USD | 21,841 million USD | South America |
| 1980s | 85,329 million USD | 115,520 million USD | 30,191 million USD | South America |
| 1990s | 121,925 million USD | 231,739 million USD | 109,814 million USD | South America |
| 2000s | 241,271 million USD | 343,270 million USD | 101,998 million USD | South America |
| 2010s | 401,445 million USD | 771,367 million USD | 369,923 million USD | South America |
| 2020s | 472,436 million USD | 678,160 million USD | 205,724 million USD | South America |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher gross fixed capital formation — value us$, Canada or South America?
- South America, at 753,486 million USD against 500,302 million USD in Canada as of 2024.
- What is the difference in gross fixed capital formation — value us$ between Canada and South America?
- 253,184 million USD, with South America ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Canada and South America?
- 55 years are reported by both, from 1970 to 2024.
- How do Canada and South America rank globally for gross fixed capital formation — value us$?
- Canada ranks 10th and South America ranks 16th of 203 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Gross Fixed Capital Formation — Value US$. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
The FAOSTAT Macro Indicators database provides a selection of country-level macro indicators relating to total economy (Gross Domestic Product, Gross Fixed Capital Formation); agriculture activity; agriculture, forestry and fishing activity; total manufacturing activity; manufacturing of food products and beverages activity; manufacturing activity of tobacco products; and manufacturing activity of food, beverage and tobacco products.It releases time series for a selection of National Accounts variables, including gross domestic product, gross fixed capital formation, industry-level value added and gross output. The database also proposes additional indicators such as gross domestic product per capita, year-on-year growth rates and measures of industry contribution to gross domestic product. All data relating to Gross Domestic Product, Gross Fixed Capital Formation, agriculture, forestry and fishing activity, and to total manufacturing activity originates from the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates database, which consists of a complete and consistent set of time series of the main National Accounts aggregates of all UN Members States and other territories in the world for which National Accounts information is available. The UNSD database's content is based on the countries' official National Accounts data reported to UNSD through the annual National Accounts Questionnaire, supplemented with data estimates for any years and countries with incomplete or inconsistent information (See http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/Introduction.asp). Data series relating to the sub-industry Agriculture activity are obtained from the UNSD national accounts Official Country Data databases while series on the Manufacturing activity of food and beverages products, manufacturing activity of tobacco products and manufacturing activity of food, beverages and tobacco products originates from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) INDSTAT2 database. In order to ensure that sub-industry series are consistent in levels with National Accounts based series, which is needed to support comparability across industries (agriculture vs. agro-industry and sub-industries), UNIDO originating series are rescaled on UNSD National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates data series (See Section 17.5 for a more detailed description of the data processing steps).