What do Canadian people think about socialism?
Economic axis · 🇨🇦 Canada · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
No published Canadian reading yet. DataRadio holds 0 Canadian answers on this question and publishes a nation only at 100, so the honest answer today is that we do not know — 100 more answers are needed. The world reading is below, and it takes about a minute to make this page say something.
Where Canada sits on economic
What is measured about Canada on this axis. These are facts about the country, not what its people think about them — that is the part of this page waiting on a sample.
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Income inequality (Gini)
World Bank PovcalNet/PIP · 2022
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31.5 0–100 |
somewhat below the middle
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Tax revenue
IMF Government Finance Statistics · 2024
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13.7% |
somewhat below the middle
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Health spending
WHO Global Health Expenditure · 2024
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11.3% |
among the highest in the world
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Income per person
World Bank / ICP · 2025
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$57,989 |
higher than most countries
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Ranked against every country with a published figure for the same series. Sources: World Bank World Development Indicators, which republish UN, ILO, UNESCO, WHO, SIPRI, IISS and UNODC data.
The questions that bear on socialism
Asked as a forced choice between two written positions, in randomised order, with the sides flipped for half of respondents.
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A · Water, power and trains work better when private firms compete to run them.
B · Water, power and trains should be owned by the public, not run for profit.
World, unweighted: 50% A ·
0% neither ·
50% B · n = 2
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🇨🇦 n=0 of 100 |
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A · Health care should mostly be bought and sold, with help for those who cannot pay.
B · The state should provide health care, free when you need it.
World, unweighted: 50% A ·
50% neither ·
0% B · n = 2
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🇨🇦 n=0 of 100 |
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A · Free trade and business have done more to end poverty than state help has.
B · State help has done more to end poverty than free trade and business have.
World, unweighted: 0% A ·
100% neither ·
0% B · n = 2
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🇨🇦 n=0 of 100 |
A national figure appears only once that nation clears 100 responses on the question. The world column is a raw count of every answer received and is not post-stratified — it is shown because withholding it would say less, not more.
Asked another way
The same question, as people put it.
- Canada public opinion on socialism
- Socialism poll canada
- What do canadian people think about socialism
- What percentage of canadian people support socialism
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.