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Canada Is Actually Worth Less As A Country Than Some Companies Including Apple

We're not even close to the richest in the world.
Companies Wealthier Than Countries Include Apple Over Canada
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Senior Writer

When it comes to companies that are wealthier than countries, there are quite a few that are worth more than Canada is as a nation.

This ranking compares the GDP of countries to the net worth of companies in 2019 and Canada comes in 13th place behind nine countries and three companies.

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Our country is ranked after the U.S., China, Japan, Germany, India, the U.K., France, Apple, Italy, Saudi Aramco, Brazil and Microsoft.

However, we are richer than Amazon, Telsa and Facebook.

Canada has a GDP of slightly more than $1.7 trillion while Apple, in 8th place, has a net worth of over $2.2 trillion and the U.S., in the first place, has a GDP over $21 trillion!

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    • Lisa Belmonte

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      Lisa Belmonte (she/her) is a Senior Writer with Narcity Media. After graduating with a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), she joined the Narcity team. Lisa covers news and notices from across the country from a Canada-wide perspective. Her early coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic earned Narcity its first-ever national journalism award nomination.

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