Canada

Canada is the second largest country in the world and is strategically located between the largest country in the world, Russia, and the third largest country in the world, the United States. Canada stretches east from the North Pacific Ocean to the North Atlantic Ocean and north from the conterminous United Stated to the Artic Ocean. The only country Canada shares its border with is the United States and they share a little over 5,500 miles of border.

Canada's borders encompass about 3.85 million square miles of which about three hundred thousand are taken by water. While only slightly larger then the United States in land mass Canada's population of thirty-three million is about one ninth that of the US population. Approximately 3.47 million people, roughly 90 percent, live within one hundred miles of the Canadian border with the United States. This is caused by continuous permafrost and cyclonic storms that form in the more northern parts of Canada.

Over eighty-six percent of Canada population is under age sixty-five. 17.6% of the population is age 0 to 14 years old with 2,992,811 males and 2,848,388 females. 69% of the population is 15 to 64 years of age with 11,482,452 males and 11,368,285 females. The remaining 13.3% is age 65 and over with 1,883,008 males and 2,523,987 females. The mediam age of a person in Canada is 38.9 years with males being about one year younger and females being about one year older.

On population average there are about .98 males per female. At birth the population is about 1.05 males to 1 female and then begins to drop off with an average of 1.01 males to females between the ages of 15 and 64 and then dramatically drops off to .75 males to 1 female when you go over age 65. This reflects the differences in life expectancy with the average male living about 77 years while females live about 7 years longer to the age of 84.

Canada's population is growing at about