Canada - Social contributions

Social contributions (current LCU)

The value for Social contributions (current LCU) in Canada was 93,607,000,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 29 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 93,607,000,000 in 2019 and a minimum value of 23,144,000,000 in 1990.

Definition: Social contributions include social security contributions by employees, employers, and self-employed individuals, and other contributions whose source cannot be determined. They also include actual or imputed contributions to social insurance schemes operated by governments.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

Year Value
1990 23,144,000,000
1991 25,911,000,000
1992 29,547,000,000
1993 30,827,000,000
1994 32,871,000,000
1995 33,953,000,000
1996 33,585,000,000
1997 35,812,000,000
1998 37,285,000,000
1999 39,659,000,000
2000 43,672,000,000
2001 46,965,000,000
2002 50,740,000,000
2003 53,041,000,000
2004 53,977,000,000
2005 56,664,000,000
2006 57,936,000,000
2007 62,218,000,000
2008 63,341,000,000
2009 64,667,000,000
2010 64,969,000,000
2011 67,728,000,000
2012 72,389,000,000
2013 76,823,000,000
2014 79,628,000,000
2015 82,853,000,000
2016 84,187,000,000
2017 84,290,000,000
2018 88,005,000,000
2019 93,607,000,000

Social contributions (% of revenue)

Social contributions (% of revenue) in Canada was 21.51 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 29 years was 23.75 in 2013, while its lowest value was 16.87 in 1990.

Definition: Social contributions include social security contributions by employees, employers, and self-employed individuals, and other contributions whose source cannot be determined. They also include actual or imputed contributions to social insurance schemes operated by governments.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also:

Year Value
1990 16.87
1991 18.02
1992 19.88
1993 20.84
1994 21.67
1995 20.96
1996 19.73
1997 19.10
1998 19.11
1999 19.04
2000 18.87
2001 20.28
2002 21.91
2003 22.10
2004 21.53
2005 21.43
2006 20.83
2007 21.02
2008 21.62
2009 23.24
2010 23.02
2011 22.49
2012 23.22
2013 23.75
2014 23.45
2015 23.26
2016 23.20
2017 21.81
2018 21.20
2019 21.51

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance