Latest Developments in the Canadian Economic Accounts
2025
An overview of the revisions to the Financial and Wealth Accounts, 1999 to 2025
This article describes the revisions to the Financial Flow Accounts, the Other Changes in Assets Account and the National Balance Sheet Accounts, collectively called the Financial and Wealth Accounts (FWA), introduced as part of the 2025 comprehensive revision. These accounts are integral to the Canadian System of Macroeconomic Accounts. This exercise was conducted to strengthen the overall quality and relevance of the FWA program and to introduce new concepts, methodologies and classifications as recommended by international standards.
The 2022 to 2024 Revisions of the Income and Expenditure Accounts
This article presents revisions to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by Income and by Expenditure from the Income and Expenditure Accounts (IEA) for the 2022 to 2024 period. These revisions were reflected in the 2024 Provincial and Territorial Economic Accounts estimates, released on November 6, 2025.
Reference Guide to Canadian International Merchandise Trade Statistics
This guide presents information to enhance an understanding of Canadian International Merchandise Trade statistics. It provides essential definitions, describes key concepts and methodology, and outlines data processes. An overview of the published data, including descriptions of product, industry, and geographical classifications, is provided along with links to the products where these data are available.
Enhancing wealth distributions within the distributions of household economic accounts using a capitalization of income method
This paper presents a methodology to enhance the estimation of wealth distributions within the distributions of household economic accounts by combining survey and tax data on investment income and applying a capitalization of income method to impute the distributions of financial asset values.
Borrowing, repayments and bankruptcies by industry: Results from the Canada Emergency Business Account program
The Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA) program was introduced during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic to support small and medium-sized businesses facing economic uncertainty.
This article examines the CEBA program in detail, focusing on the breakdown by industry, repayment trends and bankruptcies. The analysis is primarily backed by loan-level microdata from Export Development Canada, bankruptcy microdata from the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy and Statistics Canada’s Business Register.
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