2021 by the numbers

4.5%

Canada’s real gross domestic product growth as estimated at December 31, 2021

3.4%

Consumer price index inflation

0.25%

Policy interest rate at year-end

78.88

US cents—Exchange rate for Can$1 as at December 31, 2021

$281.4

billion—Nominal value of marketable bonds issued in 2021

$134.8

billion—Nominal value of Government of Canada bonds purchased under its Government of Canada Bond Purchase Program

2,050

Number of Bank of Canada employees

$293.6

thousand—Total staff donations to the Bank of Canada workplace charitable campaign