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Fact File: Claim Canada ranks 8th in global homeless population is false

A viral Instagram post with more than 7,000 likes claimed Canada ranks eighth globally in homeless population, using a World of Statistics screenshot on X that shows an OECD-based list, not a global ranking.
The ranking came from Insider Monkey, which said it used Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development data, but comparisons are unreliable as countries use different definitions and recording methods.
OECD-Based estimates show Canada’s homeless population as 40,713, about 0.11 per cent, ranking tenth behind the United States, France, Germany, Australia, England, Czechia, New Zealand, Italy, and the Slovak Republic.
The OECD data underscore at least two million people experiencing homelessness in member countries, while Canada's latest count shows the nightly homeless population nearly doubled over six years.
Because source reliability matters, World of Statistics' history of unreliable data and Insider Monkey's omission of the United States and England limit the claim's accuracy, while Canada's definitions complicate comparisons.

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