3QUESTION 3 OF 3
Answer & explanation
The official answer, with Fermi’s reasoning step by step.
Answer & explanation
Official answer
35,679
graduates
How to estimate it
Fermi’s official “Napkin math”
Canada has about 40 million people. How many finish a college or university credential in a year? A bit over half a million, counting every level. What share of those is computing? Maybe one in twenty.
- Canada's population
- ≈ 40,000,000
- Credentials awarded a year
- ≈ 600,000
- Computing's share, ~1 in 20
- ≈ 30,000 graduates
Rounded assumptions may give a slightly different estimate. The official answer above is the game’s reference value.
Source calculation & reference
- Statistics Canada, graduates in computer and information sciences, 2022
- 35,679
- Growth on the year before
- +10.4%
- Colleges and universities, public institutions, all credential levels
- combined
Reference cited by Fermi: Statistics Canada, "Canadian postsecondary enrolments and graduates, 2022/2023", The Daily, November 2024
How close was your guess?
Your comparison will appear here.
Compare by ratio: divide the larger number by the smaller one. The closer to 1×, the better.