Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Canadian
13 year old boy
- Life Expectancy (15 years old, closest to 13.)
- 80.1 years old
- Government
- Democracy
- Everyone has freedom of speech
- free health care “medicare” provides access to universal,
comprehensive coverage for medical services
- Technology
- Very advanced in technology
- Technology generally available to most of population
- 31,661,870 Internet users as of Dec 31, 2013, which is 90.9% of Canada's population
- Water availability (2000-2012)
- 100% of population has clean drinking water that is available
- Human rights
- Canadian human rights act is against any form of discrimination (prohibited
grounds of discrimination)
- Education
- More than a third of Canada's research is done and conducted in canadian universities
- One of the highest rates in OECD and the G8 countries
- Canadian studens are top performers fro reading, literacy, maths, sciences
- Canadian students are number 1 among English speaking countries -according to OECD and PISA
- Natural Disasters
- Past Natural disasters in Canada from 1900-2014
- 15 epidemics (1900-2014)
- 2 infestations (1900-2014)
- 14 avalanches (1900-2014)
- 9 cold events (1900-2014)
- 46 droughts (1900-2014)
- 288 floods (1900-2014)
- 1 geomagnetic storm (1900-2014)
- 6 heat events (1900-2014)
- 15 storms, unspecified, other (1900-2014)
- 34 tropical storms (1900-2014)
- 9 storm surge (1900-2014)
- 112 storms and severe thunderstorms (1900-2014)
- 41 tornadoes (1900-2014)
- 83 wildfires (1900-2014)
- 64 winter storms(1900-2014)
- 7 earthquakes(1900-2014)
- 39 landslides(1900-2014)
- 4 tsunamis (1900-2014)
- 21 active/potentially active volcanoes
- Fort Selkirk (volcanic field)
- Alligator Lake (volcanic field)
- Atlin (cinder cones)
- Tuya (volcanic field)
- Heart Peaks (shield volcano)
- Edziza
(stratovolcano)
- Spectrum range
(stratovolcano)
- Hoodoo Mountain
(subglacial volcano)
- Iskut-Unuk river cones
(cinder cones)
- Tseax Cone
(cinder cone)
- Level Mountain (shield volcano)
- Crow Lagoon
(cinder cone)
- Garibaldi Lake
(volcanic field)
- Nazko
(cinder cones)
- Millbanke Sound
(cinder cones)
- Satah (volcanic field)
- Wells Gray-Clearwater (cinder cones)
- Silverthrone
(caldera)
- Bridge River Cones
(volcanic field)
- Meager
(complex
volcano)
- Garibaldi
(stratovolcano)