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Business and Economic Research Branch
Business and Economic Research Branch provides research, analysis and reports to support a broad understanding of the economy and the assessment of its impacts on Yukon's fiscal position, budgetary projections and financial decision making.
What's New
- Yukon Economic Outlook 2011 Update - French Translation is now available for download.
- Yukon Economic Outlook 2011 - Update is now available online.
- Yukon Economic Outlook 2011 French Translation is now available for download.
- Yukon Economic Outlook 2011 is now available online.
- 2007P Input - Output Multiplier based economic impact calculator is now available using preliminary 2007 Yukon Input-Output multipliers.
- Inflation Calculator has been upgraded and updated with 2010 CPI data
- Yukon Economic Update 2010 is now available online.
- Yukon Economic Update 2010 French Translation is now available online.
Yukon Economic Indicators at a Glance
- Unemployment Rate: 5.3 per cent (December 2011)
- Population: 35,175 (June 2011)
- Inflation Rate: 3.2 per cent (November 2011)
- Retail Sales: $56.8 million (October 2011)
- Wholesale Sales: $10.6 million (October 2011)
- Value of Building Permits: $1.6 million (November 2011)
- Housing Sales: $81.0 million (Quarter 3 - 2011)
- Average House Selling Price (Whitehorse): $455,700 (Quarter 3 - 2011)
- Median Rent (Whitehorse): $800 (December 2011)
- Vacancy Rate (Whitehorse): 1.4 per cent (December 2011)
- Tourism - Border Crossings: 8,809 (October 2011)
For more details, please visit our Economic Statistics Page.
To contact the Business and Economic Research Branch please email economics@gov.yk.ca
