America and Canada Comparison Chart

	America	Canada
Full Name	The United States of America	Canada
Year founded	1776	1867
Title of elected leader	President	Prime Minister
First President/Prime Minister	George Washington	John MacDonald
Accepts or rejects the monarchy?	Rejects	Accepts
Year of the Abolishment of slavery	1865	1833
Major languages	English (official) and Spanish.	English and French (both official.)
Population	318 million	35 million
Largest ethnic minority	Hispanic (17% in 2013)	South Asian (4.4% in 2011)
Percent “white”	63%	79.1% in 2011
Global Fire Power Ranking	1st	14th
Country size (by rank)	3rd	2nd
Largest cities	New York Los Angeles Chicago	Toronto Montreal Calgary
Regions	New England, Southern, mid-west, western, Alaskan, Hawaiian and Caribbean.	Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, Western and Northern Territories.
Number of states / Provinces	50	10
Number of territories	5 (Islands)	3 (mainland)
Major religion:	Protestantism (51.3% adhere)	Catholicism (39% in 2011)
Separation of church and state?	Yes	No
Political leading (compared to the other)	More Conservative	More Liberal
General culture	Melting pot (“Come and become an American”)	Mixing bowl (“Keep your culture and come join Canada.”
Percent of gun owners	About 30%	About 11%
Abortion	Most states ban abortions in the late term.	Abortion regardless of the age of the pre-born child is not banned anywhere in Canada.
Homicide rate (per 100,000)	5	2
Rape rate (in 2010)	27.3	1.7
Robbery rate (in 2006)	146.4	94.2
Abortion rate (% of Pregnancies)	22.6 (2005)	20.7 (2006)
Percent in poverty	15%	14.9%
Unemployment rate	5.5%	7%