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Canada's economy worst on record since 1961
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Ottawa, March 3 (TIWN) Canada's gross domestic product shrank 5.4 per cent in 2020, the worst year for the country's economy since record keeping began in 1961, according to authorities.
Canada's gross domestic product, including the total value of all goods and services it produced, grew by 2.3 per cent in the last quarter of 2020, but that was nowhere near enough to offset the record-setting plunge it experienced during the first wave.
Since early summer last year, Canadian economic activity has slowly recovered.
The economy grew at an annualized rate of 9.6 per cent in the fourth quarter of last year, down from an annualised growth rate of 40.6 per cent in the third quarter.
However, despite the better-than-expected result for the quarter as a whole, Statistics Canada said total economic activity in December 2020 was about 3 per cent below the pre-pandemic level in February 2020.
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