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Canada · CAD · share price index, latest 2026-09

The city is a label: every national figure here is Canada's own, and the cost of living is one survey's answer for one adult, with its method and its year.

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Poverty line

The least a household needs to spend to avoid being counted as poor.

$2,620a month · 2025

€1,660at the ECB's 2025 average

Excluding shelter $1,503.71 (€952.48)

Monthly poverty threshold for one person, Toronto (C$31,440 a year).

  • Housing: a component of the budget: Shelter is 42.6% of the reference family's threshold
  • Statistics Canada, 2025

What the figure is made of

Shelter · $1,116.29 · 42.6%All 6 parts
  • Shelter$1,116.29 42.6%

    C$26,791 a year for the reference family ÷ 24 (one person, a month)

  • Food$624.50 23.8%

    C$14,988 a year for the reference family ÷ 24 (one person, a month)

  • Other$379.29 14.5%

    C$9,103 a year for the reference family ÷ 24 (one person, a month)

  • Transport$311.21 11.9%

    C$7,469 a year for the reference family ÷ 24 (one person, a month)

  • Clothing$127.67 4.9%

    C$3,064 a year for the reference family ÷ 24 (one person, a month)

  • Communication$61 2.3%

    C$1,464 a year for the reference family ÷ 24 (one person, a month)

How it has changed since 2020

Toronto's poverty line rose 18% from 2020 to 2025, in step with prices, while what a person in Canada spends on average rose 31%.

100110120130140202020222025Spending+31%Prices+20%Poverty line+18%

Each line is 100 in 2020. Statistics Canada publishes the 2023-base threshold for 2020 to 2025; thresholds on its earlier bases are not spliced on.

The whole record

Stock market

At 250 in September 2026, more than two and a half times its 2015 level, in Canadian dollars and before inflation. The chart below shows what the Canadian dollar was worth in euros.

CAD per euro

1.58 Canadian dollars to the euro in October 2026, still under the January 1999 record of 1.76. A rising line is a weaker Canadian dollar.

House prices, after inflation

40% above 2010, and still under the 2022 peak.

The economy

Inflation, one year
2.1%
2025
Average spending per person
€2,291 a month
2025
Income per person, adjusted for local prices
$66,820
2025
Unemployment
6.9%
2025
Life expectancy
82.1 years
2024

What the economy is made of

What the country produces, which is what most people there work in; not which companies move the stock market.

  • Services 64.1%
  • Industry 27.4% (manufacturing 9.3%)
  • Agriculture 1.9%
  • Taxes less subsidies 6.6%
How this is calculated
Poverty line
Market Basket Measure is Canada's own method: The cost of a basket of goods and services; StatCan scales the whole threshold for one person from the reference family of four (C$62,880). It is not interchangeable with another country's survey, which is why no other city's figure sits beside it.
Prices
No carry-forward. The survey (2025) is not older than Canada's latest CPI year (2025), so nothing is carried: a year of inflation not yet published is not guessed. World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL, annual average.
In euros
At 1.578726 CAD per euro, the ECB's 2025 average, the survey's figure is €1,659.57. ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates.
Change since 2020
Each series divided by its 2020 value. Prices: World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL, annual average. Spending: World Bank NE.CON.PRVT.CN ÷ SP.POP.TOTL, current local currency, household final consumption divided by population, per month. Statistics Canada publishes the 2023-base threshold for 2020 to 2025; thresholds on its earlier bases are not spliced on.
Stock market
OECD via FRED SPASTT01CAM661N, monthly, 2015 = 100, in CAD and before inflation, on a logarithmic scale: equal distance is equal percentage change. Latest 2026-09.
CAD per euro
ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates, monthly average from 1999, on a logarithmic scale. A rising line is a weaker CAD. Latest 2026-10.
House prices, after inflation
BIS via FRED QCAR628BIS, quarterly, 2010 = 100. Indexed to Canada's own 2010, so only the direction compares across countries, never the level. Latest 2026-Q1.
Sources

Statistics Canada tables 11-10-0104 and 11-10-0066 · retrieved 14 Oct 2026

World Bank NE.CON.PRVT.CD ÷ SP.POP.TOTL, ECB annual average · World Bank NY.GNP.PCAP.PP.CD · World Bank SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS · World Bank SP.DYN.LE00.IN · World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG · World Bank NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.IND.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.SRV.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.IND.MANF.ZS · derived: 100 less agriculture, industry and services. Taxes less subsidies is 100 less the three sectors.