Table 14
Students and other persons aged 15 to 24 by province, unadjusted for seasonality
| Population | Labour force | Employment | Full-time employment | Part-time employment | Unemployment | Participation rate |
Unemployment rate | Employment rate |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| thousands | thousands | thousands | thousands | thousands | thousands | % | % | % | |
| Students1 | |||||||||
| Newfoundland and Labrador | |||||||||
| May 2023 | 28.9 | 13.2 | 11.2 | 3.2 | 7.9 | 2.1 | 45.7 | 15.9 | 38.8 |
| May 2024 | 30.7 | 14.4 | 11.9 | 2.8 | 9.1 | 2.5 | 46.9 | 17.4 | 38.8 |
| Prince Edward Island | |||||||||
| May 2023 | 12.5 | 7.5 | 6.6 | 3.1 | 3.4 | 1.0 | 60.0 | 13.3 | 52.8 |
| May 2024 | 12.3 | 6.6 | 5.7 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 0.9 | 53.7 | 13.6 | 46.3 |
| Nova Scotia | |||||||||
| May 2023 | 63.0 | 36.6 | 30.9 | 6.5 | 24.4 | 5.6 | 58.1 | 15.3 | 49.0 |
| May 2024 | 54.9 | 29.8 | 23.8 | 6.0 | 17.8 | 6.0 | 54.3 | 20.1 | 43.4 |
| New Brunswick | |||||||||
| May 2023 | 41.4 | 25.4 | 20.9 | 6.0 | 14.9 | 4.4 | 61.4 | 17.3 | 50.5 |
| May 2024 | 45.6 | 26.2 | 21.0 | 8.6 | 12.5 | 5.2 | 57.5 | 19.8 | 46.1 |
| Quebec | |||||||||
| May 2023 | 581.3 | 350.0 | 321.5 | 43.9 | 277.7 | 28.5 | 60.2 | 8.1 | 55.3 |
| May 2024 | 579.1 | 349.4 | 318.8 | 54.4 | 264.4 | 30.6 | 60.3 | 8.8 | 55.1 |
| Ontario | |||||||||
| May 2023 | 1,018.9 | 554.7 | 452.7 | 110.0 | 342.8 | 101.9 | 54.4 | 18.4 | 44.4 |
| May 2024 | 1,155.9 | 600.8 | 469.6 | 124.9 | 344.6 | 131.2 | 52.0 | 21.8 | 40.6 |
| Manitoba | |||||||||
| May 2023 | 84.3 | 50.8 | 43.7 | 10.2 | 33.5 | 7.1 | 60.3 | 14.0 | 51.8 |
| May 2024 | 87.0 | 47.3 | 41.0 | 11.7 | 29.3 | 6.2 | 54.4 | 13.1 | 47.1 |
| Saskatchewan | |||||||||
| May 2023 | 73.0 | 39.8 | 35.7 | 11.5 | 24.2 | 4.1 | 54.5 | 10.3 | 48.9 |
| May 2024 | 72.6 | 37.9 | 30.7 | 7.5 | 23.2 | 7.2 | 52.2 | 19.0 | 42.3 |
| Alberta | |||||||||
| May 2023 | 267.9 | 130.9 | 107.0 | 29.8 | 77.2 | 23.9 | 48.9 | 18.3 | 39.9 |
| May 2024 | 299.2 | 157.2 | 125.2 | 26.2 | 99.0 | 32.1 | 52.5 | 20.4 | 41.8 |
| British Columbia | |||||||||
| May 2023 | 309.4 | 163.0 | 138.6 | 36.9 | 101.6 | 24.5 | 52.7 | 15.0 | 44.8 |
| May 2024 | 329.3 | 160.5 | 138.6 | 31.5 | 107.1 | 21.9 | 48.7 | 13.6 | 42.1 |
| Other persons2 | |||||||||
| Newfoundland and Labrador | |||||||||
| May 2023 | 27.4 | 21.7 | 17.5 | 12.4 | 5.3 | 4.1 | 79.2 | 18.9 | 63.9 |
| May 2024 | 27.3 | 21.9 | 19.1 | 14.7 | 4.4 | x | 80.2 | x | 70.0 |
| Prince Edward Island | |||||||||
| May 2023 | 10.8 | 10.0 | 9.0 | 7.9 | 1.2 | x | 92.6 | x | 83.3 |
| May 2024 | 12.7 | 10.5 | 9.8 | 8.8 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 82.7 | 6.7 | 77.2 |
| Nova Scotia | |||||||||
| May 2023 | 50.6 | 38.7 | 35.4 | 26.5 | 8.9 | 3.5 | 76.5 | 9.0 | 70.0 |
| May 2024 | 66.5 | 53.7 | 47.9 | 36.3 | 11.6 | 5.8 | 80.8 | 10.8 | 72.0 |
| New Brunswick | |||||||||
| May 2023 | 46.1 | 39.1 | 34.9 | 28.1 | 6.8 | 4.2 | 84.8 | 10.7 | 75.7 |
| May 2024 | 47.7 | 37.7 | 33.4 | 27.5 | 6.0 | 4.3 | 79.0 | 11.4 | 70.0 |
| Quebec | |||||||||
| May 2023 | 343.7 | 302.7 | 288.6 | 221.2 | 67.4 | 14.1 | 88.1 | 4.7 | 84.0 |
| May 2024 | 395.1 | 331.7 | 299.8 | 225.1 | 74.7 | 31.9 | 84.0 | 9.6 | 75.9 |
| Ontario | |||||||||
| May 2023 | 886.7 | 732.4 | 641.4 | 466.8 | 174.5 | 90.9 | 82.6 | 12.4 | 72.3 |
| May 2024 | 904.7 | 720.4 | 618.3 | 440.2 | 178.0 | 102.1 | 79.6 | 14.2 | 68.3 |
| Manitoba | |||||||||
| May 2023 | 86.8 | 72.6 | 66.2 | 51.1 | 15.0 | 6.4 | 83.6 | 8.8 | 76.3 |
| May 2024 | 96.1 | 81.9 | 75.4 | 53.3 | 22.1 | 6.5 | 85.2 | 7.9 | 78.5 |
| Saskatchewan | |||||||||
| May 2023 | 66.7 | 55.0 | 50.5 | 38.8 | 11.7 | 4.5 | 82.5 | 8.2 | 75.7 |
| May 2024 | 74.5 | 62.1 | 56.7 | 42.9 | 13.7 | 5.4 | 83.4 | 8.7 | 76.1 |
| Alberta | |||||||||
| May 2023 | 288.8 | 238.8 | 221.4 | 156.3 | 65.3 | 17.4 | 82.7 | 7.3 | 76.7 |
| May 2024 | 297.1 | 243.2 | 216.2 | 142.0 | 74.3 | 27.0 | 81.9 | 11.1 | 72.8 |
| British Columbia | |||||||||
| May 2023 | 305.2 | 245.7 | 226.2 | 161.8 | 64.5 | 19.5 | 80.5 | 7.9 | 74.1 |
| May 2024 | 332.3 | 278.3 | 250.6 | 178.9 | 71.7 | 27.8 | 83.7 | 10.0 | 75.4 |
x
suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act
Source(s):
Table 14-10-0286-03.
Table note 1
Students are persons aged 15 to 24 who attended school full-time in March and who are planning to return to school in the fall.
Table note 2
Other persons are all other youths aged 15 to 24 who are not included in the student population.
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