Canada vs United States: Institutional Investors': Financial … liabilities pension
Institutional Investors': Financial … liabilities pension over time
- Canada
- United States
How they compare
United States currently reports 97.64 Percentage of GDP against 89.25 Percentage of GDP in Canada, a difference of 8.39 Percentage of GDP.
That makes United States's figure about 1.1 times Canada's.
Across all 36 years both countries report, United States has been ahead every year.
Canada ranks 6th and United States ranks 5th of 26 countries.
United States has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Canada | United States | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 52.07 Percentage of GDP | 86.15 Percentage of GDP | 34.08 Percentage of GDP | United States |
| 2000s | 61.34 Percentage of GDP | 95.91 Percentage of GDP | 34.58 Percentage of GDP | United States |
| 2010s | 83.91 Percentage of GDP | 111.7 Percentage of GDP | 27.79 Percentage of GDP | United States |
| 2020s | 92.14 Percentage of GDP | 104.02 Percentage of GDP | 11.88 Percentage of GDP | United States |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher institutional investors' indicators — financial liabilities of, Canada or United States?
- United States, at 97.64 Percentage of GDP against 89.25 Percentage of GDP in Canada as of 2025.
- What is the difference in institutional investors' indicators — financial liabilities of between Canada and United States?
- 8.39 Percentage of GDP, with United States ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Canada and United States?
- 36 years are reported by both, from 1990 to 2025.
- How do Canada and United States rank globally for institutional investors' indicators — financial liabilities of?
- Canada ranks 6th and United States ranks 5th of 26 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as Institutional Investors' Indicators — Financial liabilities of pension funds. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
The Institutional Investors’ Indicators table shows total financial assets and liabilities of the three types of institutional investor - investment funds, insurance corporations and pension funds - as a percentage of GDP. It also provides a breakdown of the total assets (liabilities) of each type of institutional investor by main financial instrument category: currency and deposits; debt securities; loans; equity and investment fund shares; insurance, pensions and standardised guarantees; financial derivatives and employee stock options; and other accounts receivable/payable. The financial instrument categories are shown as a share (percentage) of the total assets (liabilities) of each type of institutional investor. For investment funds, there is also a breakdown of total assets by type of investment fund: real estate, equity, bond, mixed, hedge and other funds; and a breakdown of total assets and liabilities by whether they belong to money market funds (MMFs) or non-MMFs and to open-ended or closed-ended funds. All the indicators in this dataset are derived from the Institutional Investors' Assets and Liabilities dataset.