United States (31.1 %) China (8.3 %) Algeria (8.1 %) United Kingdom (7.9 %) Germany (4.0 %) Japan (4.0 %)
Public finances
Government debt
$219.0 billion CAD(2021)[4]
All values, unless otherwise stated, are in US dollars.
The economy of Quebec is diversified and post-industrial with an average potential for growth.[5] It is highly integrated with the economies of the rest of Canada and the United States. Manufacturing and service sectors dominate the economy.[6]
The economic heart of Quebec is the Montreal metropolitan area where half of Quebecers live. This region alone accounts for 53.4% of the province's gross domestic product (GDP), followed by the Quebec City metropolitan area (11.4%), Gatineau (3.2%), Sherbrooke (2.2%), Saguenay (1.9%) and Trois-Rivières (1.8%). In total, Quebec's GDP at market prices was CAD 380.9 billion or 19.0% of Canada's GDP.
For the 2022-2023 period, Quebec's budget was C$22 billion. This budget planned to provide $8,9 billion more to the healthcare sector over 5 years.[7][8] The economy of Quebec represents 20.36% of the total GDP of Canada. Like most industrialized countries, the economy of Quebec is based mainly on the services sector. Quebec's economy has traditionally been fuelled by abundant natural resources, a well-developed infrastructure, and average productivity. The provincial GDP in 2021 was C$504,5 billion,[9] making Quebec the second largest economy in Canada.
The provincial debt-to-GDP ratio peaked at 50.7% in fiscal year 2012–2013, is now resting at 38.1 in 2022,[10] and is projected to decline to 33.8% in 2023–2024.[11] The credit rating of Quebec is currently Aa2 according to the Moody's agency.[12] In June 2017, Standard & Poor's (S&P) rated Quebec as an AA− credit risk, surpassing Ontario for the first time.[13]
Quebec's economy has undergone tremendous changes over the last decade.[14] Firmly grounded in the knowledge economy, Quebec has one of the highest growth rate of GDP in Canada. The knowledge sector represents about 30.9% of Quebec's GDP.[15] In 2011, Quebec experienced faster growth of its research-and-development (R&D) spending than other Canadian provinces.[16] Quebec's spending in R&D in 2021 was equal to C$4.1B or, above the European Union average of 1.84% and will have to reaches the target of devoting 3% of GDP to research and development activities in 2013 according to the Lisbon Strategy.[17] The percentage spent on research and technology is the highest in Canada and higher than the averages for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the G7 countries.[18] Approximately 1.1 million Quebecers work in the field of science and technology.[19]
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^"L'expertise québécoise en haute technologie". Investissement Québec. Archived from the original on 27 May 2011. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
^Sauvé, Mathieu-Robert (19 May 2010). "Une cible de 3% pour la science" (in French). LeDevoir online newspaper. Archived from the original on 8 August 2011. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
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