Canada-USA macro divergence (agent-curated)
Annual intelligence on how far Canada and the USA have drifted apart across 25 curated World Bank WDI macro indicators (growth, prices, labor, fiscal, external, structure, demographics, digital, energy, health, finance). For each indicator the keyless WDI API supplies CAN + USA annual series (2000-2026); the connector keeps the common years, computes gap = CAN - USA in native units at the latest common reference_year, z-scores that gap against its trailing-20-year history, and scores divergence_score = 100 * min(|gap_z|, 3) / panel-max — a within-snapshot relative 0-100 measure ranked as divergence_rank with d1-d4 tiers. Also: 5-year gap change, a widening flag (|gap| growing vs 5y ago), value_leader (higher reference value) and favorable_leader (documented higher/lower-is-better map; null where 'better' is ambiguous). Primary key: (reference_year, indicator_code); join keys: indicator_code, reference_year, theme_category; country codes are ISO alpha-3 (CAN/USA) in value_leader/favorable_leader. Caveats: reference_year varies by indicator (WDI vintages lag 1-3 years); scores are within-snapshot relative, not comparable across snapshots; WDI revisions change row hashes and mint new snapshots by design; 'favorable' is an editorial direction map, not a normative judgment. Who joins this: a macro analyst joins divergence_score/divergence_rank to a country-allocation model on indicator_code + reference_year; a policy team joins on theme_category for briefing packs. Sample use: order by divergence_rank to find where the two economies diverged most this vintage, or filter theme_category = 'labor' for the jobs picture.
- canada
- united-states
- macroeconomics
- world-bank