Statistics Canada @StatCan_eng Combined, Calgary and Edmonton's #GDP grew almost as much as Toronto's over the 2001 to 2009 period
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The growing concentration of Canada’s population in cities has been accompanied by requests for more extensive measures of city economies.
To date, most analyses have relied on employment and income to assess metropolitan economies. These indicators measure the amount of, and returns to, labour used to produce goods and services, but neither offers a measure of the production of goods and services or gross domestic product (GDP).
GDP provides a means to assess the importance and performance of metropolitan economies—that is, how much they contribute to provincial and national GDP and how effectively inputs, like labour, are converted into output.
Presented here are experimental estimates of GDP over the 2001-to-2009 period for 33 census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and the non-metropolitan portions of the nine provinces with CMAs.
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Metropolitan Gross Domestic Product: Experimental Estimates, 2001 to 2009
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