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Heading into Thursday’s federal leaders’ debate on the economy, Stephen Harper, Tom Mulcair and Justin Trudeau have all been spinning their own messages about Canada’s economic health.

Harper says Canada is an “island of stability” in increasingly choppy global economic waters; Mulcair says hundreds of thousands of lost manufacturing jobs are symptoms of a struggling economy; and Trudeau says the middle class is hurting under deep cuts to the economy and tax breaks for the wealthy.

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How is Canada actually faring? What is the economic health of the country?

The Citizen looked as how Canada compares in a handful of key areas to other major economic players, according to data compiled by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD):

Projected Real GDP Growth in 2015:

United Kingdom: 2.4 per cent

United States: 2.4 per cent

Germany: 1.6 per cent

Euro area: 1.6 per cent