Canada ranks 38th by population, comprising about 0.5% of the world’s total, with over 38 million Canadians as of 2020. Being, however, the fourth-largest country by land area (second-largest by total area), the vast majority of the country is sparsely inhabited, with most of its population south of the 55th parallel north and more than half of Canadians live in just two provinces: Ontario and Quebec.