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"country", "retrieved": "2026-10-27", "method": "source", "sources": [ { "id": "cldr", "name": "CLDR territory information", "publisher": "Unicode Consortium", "url": "https://cldr.unicode.org/", "licence": "Unicode-3.0", "licenceUrl": "https://www.unicode.org/license.txt" } ], "note": "English is official", "levelText": "Canada-wide" }, { "metric": "download_mbps", "label": "Internet speed", "description": "Typical download speed of home and mobile connections in speed tests (M-Lab NDT, one TCP stream, so lower than commercial tests); compare cities with each other.", "value": 72.9, "text": "73 Mbit/s", "unit": "Mbit/s", "period": "2023", "level": "city", "retrieved": "2026-10-27", "method": "source", "sources": [ { "id": "mlab", "name": "M-Lab NDT statistics (daily city aggregates)", "publisher": "Measurement Lab", "url": "https://www.measurementlab.net/data/", "licence": "CC0-1.0", "licenceUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/" } ], "note": "median of daily median NDT download speeds, 336 days, 588,782 tests (Vancouver, CA-BC)", "levelText": "city" }, { "metric": "degree_share", "label": "Adults with a degree", "description": "Share of adults whose highest qualification is tertiary, a university degree or a vocational diploma above school level (ISCED levels 5 to 8), counting people aged 25 to 64 for a city or region and 25 or older for a country.", "value": 49.3, "text": "49.3 % of adults", "unit": "% of adults", "period": "2021", "level": "country", "retrieved": "2026-11-05", "method": "source", "sources": [ { "id": "worldbank-wdi", "name": "World Development Indicators", "publisher": "World Bank", "url": "https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators", "licence": "CC-BY-4.0", "licenceUrl": "https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/public-licenses" } ], "note": "At least short-cycle tertiary education, % of people aged 25 and over (UNESCO Institute for Statistics via World Bank)", "levelText": "Canada-wide" }, { "metric": "github_developers", "label": "Developers on GitHub", "description": "GitHub accounts whose profile names the city as their location, per 1,000 residents: a rough count of people who write software there, since many leave the field empty and some name a city they only live near.", "value": 54.9, "text": "54.9 per 1,000 residents", "unit": "per 1,000 residents", "period": "2026-11-05", "level": "city", "retrieved": "2026-11-05", "method": "source", "sources": [ { "id": "github", "name": "GitHub user search", "publisher": "GitHub", "url": "https://docs.github.com/en/rest/search/search#search-users", "licence": "No data licence: only total counts of profiles are stored (GitHub Acceptable Use Policies, section 7)", "licenceUrl": "https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/acceptable-use-policies/github-acceptable-use-policies#7-information-usage-restrictions" } ], "note": "36,363 accounts whose location names \"Vancouver\", over 662,248 residents; less 271 naming Vancouver Island; the count includes the few naming Vancouver in United States (2% of profiles naming a country)", "levelText": "city" }, { "metric": "city_edge_km", "label": "Out of the dense city", "description": "Straight-line distance from the centre to the nearest edge of the dense city (the GHSL urban centre: touching 1 km squares with at least 1,500 residents per km²) in a direction that leads on over land, so roughly what a cyclist rides before the dense city gives way to suburbs, farmland, hills or a large park.", "value": 5.2, "text": "5.2 km", "unit": "km", "period": "2025", "level": "city", "retrieved": "2026-11-05", "method": "source", "sources": [ { "id": "ghsl-ucdb", "name": "GHS Urban Centre Database 2025 (R2024A), general characteristics", "publisher": "European Commission, Joint Research Centre (GHSL)", "url": "https://human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu/ghs_ucdb_2024.php", "licence": "CC-BY-4.0", "licenceUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" } ], "note": "Vancouver urban centre (2,198,107 people, 2025): nearest edge 5.2 km to the south-west; half the directions over land end within 11.2 km", "levelText": "city" }, { "metric": "politics_lr", "label": "Politics, left to right", "description": "An estimate of where the place voted at its latest national lower-house election (a Swiss canton, Canadian province or Australian state at its own count), on a scale from 0, left, to 10, right: each party's ParlGov position (the mean of expert surveys, or of its party family where no survey covers it), averaged by its share of the official result.", "value": 6.1, "text": "centre-right, 6.1 of 10", "unit": "0 to 10", "period": "2025-04-28", "level": "region", "retrieved": "2026-11-05", "method": "source", "sources": [ { "id": "politics", "name": "Political position from election results", "publisher": "Borgo contributors", "url": "https://github.com/ABCastor/borgo/blob/main/pipeline/inputs/politics.json", "licence": "CC-BY-4.0", "licenceUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" } ], "note": "Estimate from the official result of House of Commons, 28 Apr 2025, with ParlGov party positions: Liberal Party of Canada 41.8% (5.1), Conservative Party of Canada 41.2% (8.7), New Democratic Party 13% (2.5), Green Party of Canada 3% (1.9), People's Party of Canada 0.4% (8.7, party-family average), Independent 0.4% (no position). 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v Morgentaler, [1988] 1 SCR 30; stated from the law cited)", "levelText": "Canada-wide" }, { "metric": "doctors", "label": "Doctors", "description": "Practising physicians per 1,000 people in the country, generalists and specialists (WHO figures).", "value": 2.82, "text": "2.8 per 1,000 people", "unit": "per 1,000 people", "period": "2023", "level": "country", "retrieved": "2026-11-05", "method": "source", "sources": [ { "id": "worldbank-wdi", "name": "World Development Indicators", "publisher": "World Bank", "url": "https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators", "licence": "CC-BY-4.0", "licenceUrl": "https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/public-licenses" } ], "note": "Physicians per 1,000 people (WHO Global Health Workforce Statistics via World Bank)", "levelText": "Canada-wide" }, { "metric": "unemployment", "label": "Unemployment", "description": "Share of people who want work and are looking for it but have none, in the country (ILO modelled estimate).", "value": 6.9, "text": "6.9 % of the labour force", "unit": "% of the labour force", "period": "2025", "level": "country", "retrieved": "2026-11-05", "method": "source", "sources": [ { "id": "worldbank-wdi", "name": "World Development Indicators", "publisher": "World Bank", "url": "https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators", "licence": "CC-BY-4.0", "licenceUrl": "https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/public-licenses" } ], "note": "Unemployment, % of the labour force, ILO modelled estimate (via World Bank)", "levelText": "Canada-wide" }, { "metric": "clean_government", "label": "Control of corruption", "description": "How far public power is kept from private gain, petty and grand corruption alike, as experts, firms and households perceive it in the country: the World Bank's governance estimate, roughly -2.5 (weak) to 2.5 (strong).", "value": 1.59, "text": "1.59 -2.5 to 2.5", "unit": "-2.5 to 2.5", "period": "2025", "level": "country", "retrieved": "2026-11-05", "method": "source", "sources": [ { "id": "worldbank-wgi", "name": "Worldwide Governance Indicators", "publisher": "World Bank", "url": "https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/worldwide-governance-indicators", "licence": "CC-BY-4.0", "licenceUrl": "https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0038026/worldwide-governance-indicators" } ], "note": "Control of corruption, governance estimate (Worldwide Governance Indicators)", "levelText": "Canada-wide" }, { "metric": "same_sex_couples", "label": "Same-sex couples in law", "description": "What the law offers same-sex couples: 0 sexual relations between people of the same sex are a crime, 1 legal but national law offers no union, 2 civil union or registered partnership, 3 marriage.", "value": 3, "text": "marriage", "unit": "0 to 3", "period": "2026", "level": "country", "retrieved": "2026-11-05", "method": "source", "sources": [ { "id": "couples-law", "name": "Same-sex couples in law, from the statutes cited", "publisher": "Borgo contributors", "url": "https://github.com/ABCastor/borgo/blob/main/src/fetch/rights-law.ts", "licence": "CC-BY-4.0", "licenceUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" } ], "note": "Marriage: Civil Marriage Act, S.C. 2005, c. 33, s. 2 (checked against the source linked on 2026-11-05)", "levelText": "Canada-wide" } ], "gaps": [ { "metric": "rent_1bed", "label": "Rent, one bedroom" }, { "metric": "rent_3bed", "label": "Rent, three bedrooms" }, { "metric": "childcare_cost", "label": "Your childcare cost" }, { "metric": "health_premium", "label": "Health insurance premium" }, { "metric": "pm25", "label": "Fine dust (PM2.5)" }, { "metric": "coworking", "label": "Coworking spaces" }, { "metric": "climbing_gyms", "label": "Climbing gyms" }, { "metric": "swimming_pools", "label": "Public swimming pools" }, { "metric": "public_pools", "label": "Public swimming pools (official)" }, { "metric": "hackerspaces", "label": "Hackerspaces and makerspaces" }, { "metric": "green_space_10km", "label": "Green 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4, "period": "2026", "level": "country", "source": "abortion-law", "retrieved": "2026-11-05", "url": "https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/288/index.do", "note": "No criminal law restricts it since the Supreme Court struck the provision down; provinces regulate care (R v Morgentaler, [1988] 1 SCR 30; stated from the law cited)", "sourceName": "Abortion in law, from the statutes cited", "licence": "CC-BY-4.0" }, { "metric": "english_official", "value": 1, "period": "CLDR 49", "level": "country", "source": "cldr", "retrieved": "2026-10-27", "note": "English is official", "sourceName": "CLDR territory information", "licence": "Unicode-3.0" }, { "metric": "english_share", "value": 87, "period": "CLDR 49", "level": "country", "source": "cldr", "retrieved": "2026-10-27", "note": "share of the population that speaks English, any level", "sourceName": "CLDR territory information", "licence": "Unicode-3.0" }, { "metric": "same_sex_couples", "value": 3, "period": "2026", "level": "country", "source": "couples-law", "retrieved": "2026-11-05", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-31.5/page-1.html", "note": "Marriage: Civil Marriage Act, S.C. 2005, c. 33, s. 2 (checked against the source linked on 2026-11-05)", "sourceName": "Same-sex couples in law, from the statutes cited", "licence": "CC-BY-4.0" }, { "metric": "founders_running_club", "value": 1, "period": "2026-10-27", "level": "city", "source": "foundersrc", "retrieved": "2026-10-27", "note": "Chapter: https://www.instagram.com/frcvancouver/", "sourceName": "Founders Running Club communities", "licence": "Public listing (facts of presence only; no licence stated)" }, { "metric": "sea_km", "value": 4, "period": "Natural Earth 5.1", "source": "natural-earth", "level": "city", "retrieved": "2026-10-27", "note": "straight line from the centre to the open-sea coastline (lakes excluded)", "sourceName": "Natural Earth (coastline, land, countries and populated places)", "licence": "Public domain" }, { "metric": "mountain_km", "value": 15, "period": "terrain tiles 2017", "source": "terrain-tiles", "level": "city", "retrieved": "2026-10-27", "note": "1140 m at 49.38, -123.08; the centre sits at about 77 m", "sourceName": "Terrain Tiles (Terrarium) on AWS Open Data", "licence": "Public domain (USGS, NOAA) and Open Government Licence – Canada, with attribution" }, { "metric": "city_edge_km", "period": "2025", "level": "city", "source": "ghsl-ucdb", "retrieved": "2026-11-05", "url": "https://jeodpp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ftp/jrc-opendata/GHSL/GHS_UCDB_GLOBE_R2024A/GHS_UCDB_THEME_GLOBE_R2024A/GHS_UCDB_THEME_GENERAL_CHARACTERISTICS_GLOBE_R2024A/V1-2/GHS_UCDB_THEME_GENERAL_CHARACTERISTICS_GLOBE_R2024A_V1_2.zip", "value": 5.2, "note": "Vancouver urban centre (2,198,107 people, 2025): nearest edge 5.2 km to the south-west; half the directions over land end within 11.2 km", "sourceName": "GHS Urban Centre Database 2025 (R2024A), general characteristics", "licence": "CC-BY-4.0" }, { "metric": "github_developers", "value": 54.9, "period": "2026-11-05", "level": "city", "source": "github", "retrieved": "2026-11-05", "url": "https://api.github.com/search/users?q=location%3A%22Vancouver%22&per_page=1", "note": "36,363 accounts whose location names \"Vancouver\", over 662,248 residents; less 271 naming Vancouver Island; the count includes the few naming Vancouver in United States (2% of profiles naming a country)", "sourceName": "GitHub user search", "licence": "No data licence: only total counts of profiles are stored (GitHub Acceptable Use Policies, section 7)" }, { "metric": "annual_leave", "value": 10, "period": "2026", "level": "country", "source": "labour-law", "retrieved": "2026-11-04T23:14:54.070Z", "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/corporate/portfolio/labour/bulletin/march-2026.html", "fetcher": "labour-law@1", "note": "Federal baseline: 2 weeks after 1 year, 3 after 5 years and 4 after 10; provincial rules and service entitlements differ (Employment and Social Development Canada: Labour Bulletin, March 2026)", "sourceName": "Paid holiday by law, from the labour codes cited", "licence": "CC-BY-4.0" }, { "metric": "sunshine_monthly", "value": [ 58, 97, 130, 182, 230, 222, 298, 281, 216, 121, 65, 48 ], "period": "1991-2020", "level": "city", "source": "meteostat", "retrieved": "2026-10-27T11:14:14.750Z", "url": "https://bulk.meteostat.net/v2/normals/71892.csv.gz", "fetcher": "meteostat@1", "note": "Measured at Vancouver International Airport, 8 km away at 4 m (WMO definition: direct sunlight of at least 120 W/m²)", "sourceName": "Meteostat climate normals", "licence": "CC-BY-4.0" }, { "metric": "sunshine_hours", "value": 1947, "period": "1991-2020", "level": "city", "source": "meteostat", "retrieved": "2026-10-27T11:14:14.750Z", "url": "https://bulk.meteostat.net/v2/normals/71892.csv.gz", "fetcher": "meteostat@1", "note": "Measured at Vancouver International Airport, 8 km away at 4 m (WMO definition: direct sunlight of at 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Name the original source of any figure you quote." }