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 | |||||||||
| July 2024 | 32.4 | 23.4 | 19.6 | 9.4 | 10.2 | 3.8 | 72.2 | 16.2 | 60.5 |
| July 2025 | 31.6 | 22.1 | 19.2 | 10.6 | 8.6 | 2.9 | 69.9 | 13.1 | 60.8 |
| Prince Edward Island | |||||||||
| July 2024 | 12.4 | 10.3 | 9.2 | 5.5 | 3.6 | 1.2 | 83.1 | 11.7 | 74.2 |
| July 2025 | 11.7 | 8.9 | 8.2 | 5.6 | 2.6 | 0.7 | 76.1 | 7.9 | 70.1 |
| Nova Scotia | |||||||||
| July 2024 | 58.8 | 36.0 | 29.8 | 18.0 | 11.9 | 6.2 | 61.2 | 17.2 | 50.7 |
| July 2025 | 63.4 | 43.2 | 36.7 | 19.9 | 16.8 | 6.5 | 68.1 | 15.0 | 57.9 |
| New Brunswick | |||||||||
| July 2024 | 44.0 | 29.6 | 25.3 | 14.4 | 11.0 | 4.2 | 67.3 | 14.2 | 57.5 |
| July 2025 | 48.8 | 32.7 | 27.7 | 14.9 | 12.8 | 5.1 | 67.0 | 15.6 | 56.8 |
| Quebec | |||||||||
| July 2024 | 614.3 | 437.2 | 377.3 | 161.2 | 216.1 | 60.0 | 71.2 | 13.7 | 61.4 |
| July 2025 | 630.2 | 434.6 | 379.3 | 156.0 | 223.3 | 55.3 | 69.0 | 12.7 | 60.2 |
| Ontario | |||||||||
| July 2024 | 1,177.7 | 697.4 | 558.3 | 241.0 | 317.4 | 139.1 | 59.2 | 19.9 | 47.4 |
| July 2025 | 1,186.6 | 690.4 | 562.1 | 250.9 | 311.2 | 128.3 | 58.2 | 18.6 | 47.4 |
| Manitoba | |||||||||
| July 2024 | 89.6 | 58.1 | 48.4 | 21.0 | 27.4 | 9.7 | 64.8 | 16.7 | 54.0 |
| July 2025 | 95.0 | 62.3 | 54.1 | 25.3 | 28.8 | 8.2 | 65.6 | 13.2 | 56.9 |
| Saskatchewan | |||||||||
| July 2024 | 75.1 | 47.4 | 43.5 | 20.8 | 22.7 | 3.8 | 63.1 | 8.0 | 57.9 |
| July 2025 | 78.0 | 48.0 | 40.9 | 23.3 | 17.7 | 7.1 | 61.5 | 14.8 | 52.4 |
| Alberta | |||||||||
| July 2024 | 303.3 | 178.4 | 152.1 | 72.3 | 79.8 | 26.2 | 58.8 | 14.7 | 50.1 |
| July 2025 | 321.6 | 197.5 | 142.5 | 68.4 | 74.1 | 55.0 | 61.4 | 27.8 | 44.3 |
| British Columbia | |||||||||
| July 2024 | 334.6 | 183.6 | 147.5 | 60.3 | 87.2 | 36.1 | 54.9 | 19.7 | 44.1 |
| July 2025 | 352.4 | 191.2 | 157.7 | 61.0 | 96.8 | 33.5 | 54.3 | 17.5 | 44.8 |
| Other persons2 | |||||||||
| Newfoundland and Labrador | |||||||||
| July 2024 | 25.0 | 20.9 | 18.6 | 17.0 | 1.7 | 2.3 | 83.6 | 11.0 | 74.4 |
| July 2025 | 26.1 | 20.7 | 18.5 | 13.3 | 5.1 | 2.4 | 79.3 | 11.6 | 70.9 |
| Prince Edward Island | |||||||||
| July 2024 | 12.1 | 10.9 | 9.8 | 9.3 | x | 1.1 | 90.1 | 10.1 | 81.0 |
| July 2025 | 12.4 | 11.8 | 10.7 | 9.3 | x | 1.1 | 95.2 | 9.3 | 86.3 |
| Nova Scotia | |||||||||
| July 2024 | 60.0 | 51.2 | 44.1 | 36.1 | 8.1 | 7.0 | 85.3 | 13.7 | 73.5 |
| July 2025 | 53.9 | 47.8 | 41.0 | 31.3 | 9.8 | 6.7 | 88.7 | 14.0 | 76.1 |
| New Brunswick | |||||||||
| July 2024 | 48.2 | 40.2 | 35.9 | 30.9 | 5.0 | 4.3 | 83.4 | 10.7 | 74.5 |
| July 2025 | 44.0 | 38.4 | 33.9 | 27.5 | 6.3 | 4.5 | 87.3 | 11.7 | 77.0 |
| Quebec | |||||||||
| July 2024 | 367.9 | 321.3 | 294.0 | 236.5 | 57.6 | 27.2 | 87.3 | 8.5 | 79.9 |
| July 2025 | 380.0 | 335.7 | 305.3 | 245.2 | 60.0 | 30.4 | 88.3 | 9.1 | 80.3 |
| Ontario | |||||||||
| July 2024 | 878.3 | 726.0 | 621.1 | 465.4 | 155.8 | 104.9 | 82.7 | 14.4 | 70.7 |
| July 2025 | 895.0 | 748.5 | 632.6 | 429.6 | 202.8 | 116.0 | 83.6 | 15.5 | 70.7 |
| Manitoba | |||||||||
| July 2024 | 99.6 | 86.1 | 78.6 | 63.6 | 15.1 | 7.5 | 86.4 | 8.7 | 78.9 |
| July 2025 | 94.5 | 78.7 | 71.7 | 58.5 | 13.4 | 7.0 | 83.3 | 8.9 | 75.9 |
| Saskatchewan | |||||||||
| July 2024 | 71.1 | 60.8 | 54.2 | 44.1 | 10.1 | 6.5 | 85.5 | 10.7 | 76.2 |
| July 2025 | 72.8 | 61.9 | 55.1 | 43.8 | 11.3 | 6.7 | 85.0 | 10.8 | 75.7 |
| Alberta | |||||||||
| July 2024 | 289.4 | 241.5 | 208.8 | 167.3 | 41.5 | 32.7 | 83.4 | 13.5 | 72.1 |
| July 2025 | 296.9 | 253.5 | 216.5 | 166.2 | 50.4 | 37.0 | 85.4 | 14.6 | 72.9 |
| British Columbia | |||||||||
| July 2024 | 327.0 | 274.7 | 251.1 | 175.8 | 75.2 | 23.8 | 84.0 | 8.7 | 76.8 |
| July 2025 | 322.4 | 256.9 | 231.5 | 167.9 | 63.6 | 25.4 | 79.7 | 9.9 | 71.8 |
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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