Reference
Data & sources
Every number in the atlas comes from a published source listed here. Data were built on 2026-10-21. Download any dataset as a tidy CSV for your own analysis.
Downloads
| Dataset | Unit | Rows | Source | Licence | File |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada's total greenhouse gas emissions | Mt CO2e | 35 | ECCC, National Inventory Report 1990–2024 (2026), via CESI Greenhouse gas emissions indicator | Open Government Licence – Canada | CSV |
| Greenhouse gas emissions by economic sector | Mt CO2e | 245 | ECCC, National Inventory Report 1990–2024 (2026), via CESI | Open Government Licence – Canada | CSV |
| GHG emissions, population and GDP by province and territory | Mt CO2e; persons; $ millions | 13 | ECCC, National Inventory Report 1990–2024 (2026), via CESI; Statistics Canada | Open Government Licence – Canada | CSV |
| Kaya identity inputs, Canada | persons; international-$ (2011 prices); TWh; Mt CO2 | 33 | Our World in Data — CO2 dataset | CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data) | CSV |
| Fossil CO2 per person, Canada and peers | t CO2 per person | 175 | Our World in Data — CO2 dataset | CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data) | CSV |
| Electricity generation by source, Canada | TWh | 278 | Our World in Data — Energy dataset | CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data) | CSV |
| Air pollutant emissions, change since 1990 | % change from 1990 | 210 | ECCC, CESI Air pollutant emissions indicator (2026), Air Pollutant Emissions Inventory | Open Government Licence – Canada | CSV |
| Share of national air pollutant emissions by province and territory, 2024 | % of national emissions | 13 | ECCC, CESI Air pollutant emissions indicator (2026) | Open Government Licence – Canada | CSV |
| Regional annual average PM2.5 | µg/m³ | 90 | ECCC, CESI Air quality indicator (2026) | Open Government Licence – Canada | CSV |
| Annual average temperature departure, Canada | °C relative to 1961–1990 | 77 | ECCC, CESI Temperature change in Canada indicator | Open Government Licence – Canada | CSV |
| Federal carbon price benchmark | $ per tonne CO2e | 22 | Government of Canada; ICAP; Carbon Pulse | Facts compiled from public sources | CSV |
| Cross-country panel for the Stats Lab | see columns | 1,200 | Our World in Data — CO2 and Energy datasets | CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data) | CSV |
| Persons in food-insecure households by family type | % of persons | 40 | Statistics Canada, The Daily — Canadian Income Survey, 2024 (April 29, 2026), Table 4 (from table 13-10-0834-01) | Open Government Licence – Canada | CSV |
| Persons in food-insecure households by province and territory | % of persons | 13 | Statistics Canada, Canadian Income Survey 2024 (table 13-10-0835-01); provincial values as compiled by the Right to Food coalition and PROOF (University of Toronto) | Open Government Licence – Canada | CSV |
| Persons living below the official poverty line (Market Basket Measure, 2023 base) | % of persons | 35 | Statistics Canada, The Daily — Canadian Income Survey, 2024, Table 3 (from table 11-10-0135-01) | Open Government Licence – Canada | CSV |
| Poverty rate (Market Basket Measure) by province and territory | % of persons | 13 | Statistics Canada, Canadian Income Survey 2024 (table 11-10-0135-01); The Daily April 29, 2026; provincial values as compiled by the Right to Food coalition | Open Government Licence – Canada | CSV |
| Median market income, government transfers and after-tax income by family type, 2024 | 2024 constant dollars | 7 | Statistics Canada, The Daily — Canadian Income Survey, 2024, Table 1 (from table 11-10-0190-01) | Open Government Licence – Canada | CSV |
| Gini coefficient of adjusted after-tax income, Canada | index | 10 | Statistics Canada table 11-10-0134-01, via the Canadian Indicator Framework for the SDGs (indicator 10.1.1) | Open Government Licence – Canada | CSV |
| Median after-tax income of families and unattached individuals | 2024 constant dollars | 70 | Statistics Canada, The Daily — Canadian Income Survey, 2024, Table 2 (from table 11-10-0190-01) | Open Government Licence – Canada | CSV |
| Households in core housing need | % of households | 10 | CMHC — 2022 Canadian Housing Survey (published September 10, 2024) | CMHC data, used with attribution | CSV |
| Emergency shelter use in Canada | people; %; beds | 20 | Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada — Shelter use in Canada: National Shelter Study, 2024 data | Open Government Licence – Canada | CSV |
| Shelter capacity by province and territory, December 31, 2024 | beds; beds per 10,000 people | 13 | Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada — Shelter Capacity Report 2024 (from the National Service Provider List) | Open Government Licence – Canada | CSV |
| Food bank visits in March (HungerCount) | visits in the month of March | 5 | Food Banks Canada — HungerCount 2025, 2024 and 2023 reports and releases | Food Banks Canada, used with attribution | CSV |
| Food bank visits by province, March 2025 | visits | 11 | Food Banks Canada — HungerCount 2025, 2024 and 2023 reports and releases | Food Banks Canada, used with attribution | CSV |
| Social indicators by province and territory (Stats lab 2 panel) | see columns | 13 | Statistics Canada; CMHC; HICC; Food Banks Canada; ECCC | See individual sources | CSV |
What to know before you use the data
- Two emission measures. National, sector and provincial greenhouse gases come from Canada’s official National Inventory Report (all seven gases, excluding land use). The decoupling module and stats lab use Our World in Data’s fossil CO₂ so they can be paired with long-run GDP and energy for every country. Don’t mix them in one calculation.
- Revisions. The inventory recalculates the full series every April. Always cite the edition (here: NIR 2026, covering 1990–2024).
- Years. Provincial per-person and per-GDP values use July 1, 2024 population and 2024 nominal GDP. Provincial electricity profiles are from the Canada Energy Regulator’s 2021 data (Quebec 2018).
- Carbon price path. Stated values: 2026 $95, 2027–2029 $100, 2030 $115, 2035 $130, 2040 $140. Years in between are interpolated for plotting.
- Food insecurity years. Statistics Canada labels Canadian Income Survey results by reference year: the “2024” food insecurity rate (24.0%) comes from interviews in early 2025 about the previous 12 months. PROOF and some advocacy groups label the same figures 2025.
- Hand-entered social data. Homelessness, shelter capacity, core housing need, rents and food bank figures are typed in from official reports into
data-pipeline/seed/social.json. The 2019 and 2022 food bank totals are derived from published percentage changes. - Different years in the provinces lab. Indicators range from 2022 (core housing need) to 2025 (food bank visits).
- Rounding. Official tables are rounded; sector sums may differ from the national total by a few tenths.
Refreshing the data
The data pipeline lives in data-pipeline/. It uses only the Python standard library.
python data-pipeline/fetch_owid.py # download Our World in Data CSVs
python data-pipeline/fetch_official.py # optional: download full CESI CSVs from canada.ca
python data-pipeline/build.py # rebuild public/data/*.json and CSVsHand-verified official figures are stored in data-pipeline/seed/official.json with their source links. Edit that file when a new inventory or census release comes out, then rebuild.
Licences
Government of Canada data are used under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Our World in Data content is licensed CC BY 4.0; underlying sources include the Global Carbon Budget, the Energy Institute, Ember and the Maddison Project. Province outlines are simplified from the open-source click_that_hood project for display only; use the Statistics Canada 2021 cartographic boundary files for spatial analysis.