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 | |||||||||
| August 2023 | 33.8 | 22.7 | 19.7 | 10.3 | 9.4 | 3.0 | 67.2 | 13.2 | 58.3 |
| August 2024 | 33.7 | 22.0 | 19.1 | 11.0 | 8.2 | 2.9 | 65.3 | 13.2 | 56.7 |
| Prince Edward Island | |||||||||
| August 2023 | 11.5 | 9.2 | 8.4 | 5.2 | 3.2 | 0.8 | 80.0 | 8.7 | 73.0 |
| August 2024 | 14.8 | 11.1 | 10.2 | 5.9 | 4.3 | 0.9 | 75.0 | 8.1 | 68.9 |
| Nova Scotia | |||||||||
| August 2023 | 57.9 | 38.6 | 35.6 | 17.0 | 18.6 | 3.0 | 66.7 | 7.8 | 61.5 |
| August 2024 | 66.4 | 40.4 | 35.0 | 21.0 | 14.0 | 5.4 | 60.8 | 13.4 | 52.7 |
| New Brunswick | |||||||||
| August 2023 | 43.9 | 29.7 | 26.9 | 14.9 | 12.0 | 2.8 | 67.7 | 9.4 | 61.3 |
| August 2024 | 47.7 | 30.1 | 27.2 | 14.0 | 13.2 | 2.8 | 63.1 | 9.3 | 57.0 |
| Quebec | |||||||||
| August 2023 | 585.8 | 401.6 | 374.7 | 166.3 | 208.5 | 26.9 | 68.6 | 6.7 | 64.0 |
| August 2024 | 619.0 | 400.8 | 357.7 | 130.7 | 227.0 | 43.1 | 64.7 | 10.8 | 57.8 |
| Ontario | |||||||||
| August 2023 | 1,131.8 | 676.1 | 576.0 | 239.1 | 337.0 | 100.1 | 59.7 | 14.8 | 50.9 |
| August 2024 | 1,238.6 | 692.4 | 557.0 | 223.7 | 333.4 | 135.3 | 55.9 | 19.5 | 45.0 |
| Manitoba | |||||||||
| August 2023 | 83.9 | 54.3 | 46.9 | 22.7 | 24.3 | 7.3 | 64.7 | 13.4 | 55.9 |
| August 2024 | 89.5 | 55.8 | 46.3 | 20.2 | 26.1 | 9.5 | 62.3 | 17.0 | 51.7 |
| Saskatchewan | |||||||||
| August 2023 | 76.7 | 48.0 | 43.0 | 19.9 | 23.1 | 4.9 | 62.6 | 10.2 | 56.1 |
| August 2024 | 75.4 | 43.7 | 38.6 | 18.5 | 20.1 | 5.1 | 58.0 | 11.7 | 51.2 |
| Alberta | |||||||||
| August 2023 | 292.6 | 173.1 | 142.7 | 66.6 | 76.1 | 30.4 | 59.2 | 17.6 | 48.8 |
| August 2024 | 327.6 | 188.0 | 152.5 | 75.3 | 77.2 | 35.5 | 57.4 | 18.9 | 46.6 |
| British Columbia | |||||||||
| August 2023 | 309.2 | 183.3 | 162.9 | 64.0 | 98.9 | 20.4 | 59.3 | 11.1 | 52.7 |
| August 2024 | 344.1 | 190.8 | 155.7 | 56.2 | 99.5 | 35.1 | 55.4 | 18.4 | 45.2 |
| Other persons2 | |||||||||
| Newfoundland and Labrador | |||||||||
| August 2023 | 23.0 | 19.9 | 17.4 | 14.1 | 3.3 | 2.5 | 86.5 | 12.6 | 75.7 |
| August 2024 | 24.8 | 20.0 | 17.7 | 15.3 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 80.6 | 11.5 | 71.4 |
| Prince Edward Island | |||||||||
| August 2023 | 12.2 | 11.1 | 10.1 | 9.3 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 91.0 | 9.0 | 82.8 |
| August 2024 | 11.0 | 9.8 | 8.9 | 7.8 | x | 0.9 | 89.1 | 9.2 | 80.9 |
| Nova Scotia | |||||||||
| August 2023 | 57.6 | 47.3 | 40.7 | 34.1 | 6.6 | 6.7 | 82.1 | 14.2 | 70.7 |
| August 2024 | 57.8 | 51.1 | 43.5 | 35.5 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 88.4 | 15.3 | 75.3 |
| New Brunswick | |||||||||
| August 2023 | 44.9 | 40.6 | 35.4 | 31.9 | 3.6 | 5.2 | 90.4 | 12.8 | 78.8 |
| August 2024 | 47.5 | 39.9 | 36.9 | 30.7 | 6.1 | x | 84.0 | x | 77.7 |
| Quebec | |||||||||
| August 2023 | 348.2 | 308.4 | 284.6 | 229.9 | 54.8 | 23.8 | 88.6 | 7.7 | 81.7 |
| August 2024 | 371.2 | 329.4 | 293.7 | 242.8 | 50.8 | 35.7 | 88.7 | 10.8 | 79.1 |
| Ontario | |||||||||
| August 2023 | 805.7 | 680.5 | 599.0 | 467.8 | 131.2 | 81.5 | 84.5 | 12.0 | 74.3 |
| August 2024 | 867.7 | 734.4 | 618.5 | 449.5 | 169.0 | 115.9 | 84.6 | 15.8 | 71.3 |
| Manitoba | |||||||||
| August 2023 | 89.9 | 77.5 | 72.0 | 59.4 | 12.5 | 5.6 | 86.2 | 7.2 | 80.1 |
| August 2024 | 97.6 | 85.7 | 78.6 | 61.4 | 17.1 | 7.1 | 87.8 | 8.3 | 80.5 |
| Saskatchewan | |||||||||
| August 2023 | 64.9 | 53.5 | 47.7 | 40.4 | 7.3 | 5.7 | 82.4 | 10.7 | 73.5 |
| August 2024 | 73.6 | 64.9 | 57.4 | 48.6 | 8.8 | 7.5 | 88.2 | 11.6 | 78.0 |
| Alberta | |||||||||
| August 2023 | 274.6 | 227.1 | 206.1 | 160.5 | 45.6 | 21.1 | 82.7 | 9.3 | 75.1 |
| August 2024 | 279.2 | 238.4 | 214.3 | 165.3 | 49.0 | 24.1 | 85.4 | 10.1 | 76.8 |
| British Columbia | |||||||||
| August 2023 | 315.7 | 272.4 | 248.6 | 190.8 | 57.7 | 23.8 | 86.3 | 8.7 | 78.7 |
| August 2024 | 330.7 | 267.2 | 238.6 | 169.3 | 69.3 | 28.7 | 80.8 | 10.7 | 72.1 |
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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