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 2024 | 33.3 | 21.7 | 18.9 | 10.7 | 8.2 | 2.9 | 65.2 | 13.4 | 56.8 |
| August 2025 | 30.1 | 19.5 | 17.6 | 9.2 | 8.4 | 1.9 | 64.8 | 9.7 | 58.5 |
| Prince Edward Island | |||||||||
| August 2024 | 14.1 | 10.4 | 9.7 | 5.6 | 4.1 | 0.8 | 73.8 | 7.7 | 68.8 |
| August 2025 | 11.6 | 8.9 | 8.2 | 5.7 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 76.7 | 7.9 | 70.7 |
| Nova Scotia | |||||||||
| August 2024 | 63.9 | 38.3 | 33.1 | 19.9 | 13.3 | 5.1 | 59.9 | 13.3 | 51.8 |
| August 2025 | 62.6 | 42.0 | 36.5 | 20.3 | 16.2 | 5.5 | 67.1 | 13.1 | 58.3 |
| New Brunswick | |||||||||
| August 2024 | 46.2 | 29.2 | 26.4 | 13.7 | 12.7 | 2.8 | 63.2 | 9.6 | 57.1 |
| August 2025 | 50.7 | 33.9 | 27.5 | 17.1 | 10.4 | 6.3 | 66.9 | 18.6 | 54.2 |
| Quebec | |||||||||
| August 2024 | 615.7 | 401.6 | 359.5 | 131.9 | 227.6 | 42.1 | 65.2 | 10.5 | 58.4 |
| August 2025 | 630.4 | 430.9 | 376.0 | 138.8 | 237.3 | 54.8 | 68.4 | 12.7 | 59.6 |
| Ontario | |||||||||
| August 2024 | 1,213.2 | 676.2 | 544.8 | 218.7 | 326.1 | 131.4 | 55.7 | 19.4 | 44.9 |
| August 2025 | 1,194.3 | 679.4 | 548.6 | 256.4 | 292.1 | 130.8 | 56.9 | 19.3 | 45.9 |
| Manitoba | |||||||||
| August 2024 | 89.2 | 55.6 | 46.2 | 20.3 | 25.9 | 9.4 | 62.3 | 16.9 | 51.8 |
| August 2025 | 93.2 | 54.6 | 46.0 | 20.8 | 25.2 | 8.5 | 58.6 | 15.6 | 49.4 |
| Saskatchewan | |||||||||
| August 2024 | 74.6 | 43.3 | 38.3 | 18.5 | 19.8 | 5.0 | 58.0 | 11.5 | 51.3 |
| August 2025 | 78.4 | 45.9 | 40.3 | 19.4 | 20.9 | 5.5 | 58.5 | 12.0 | 51.4 |
| Alberta | |||||||||
| August 2024 | 325.1 | 185.8 | 150.9 | 74.2 | 76.7 | 34.9 | 57.2 | 18.8 | 46.4 |
| August 2025 | 341.3 | 192.9 | 152.3 | 85.4 | 66.9 | 40.6 | 56.5 | 21.0 | 44.6 |
| British Columbia | |||||||||
| August 2024 | 342.0 | 189.5 | 154.1 | 55.7 | 98.4 | 35.4 | 55.4 | 18.7 | 45.1 |
| August 2025 | 370.6 | 190.6 | 159.1 | 64.8 | 94.3 | 31.5 | 51.4 | 16.5 | 42.9 |
| Other persons2 | |||||||||
| Newfoundland and Labrador | |||||||||
| August 2024 | 24.3 | 19.7 | 17.5 | 15.1 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 81.1 | 11.7 | 72.0 |
| August 2025 | 27.5 | 22.3 | 19.5 | 14.3 | 5.2 | 2.9 | 81.1 | 13.0 | 70.9 |
| Prince Edward Island | |||||||||
| August 2024 | 10.4 | 9.2 | 8.5 | 7.2 | x | 0.7 | 88.5 | 7.6 | 81.7 |
| August 2025 | 12.5 | 11.4 | 10.2 | 9.3 | x | 1.2 | 91.2 | 10.5 | 81.6 |
| Nova Scotia | |||||||||
| August 2024 | 55.2 | 48.7 | 41.3 | 33.8 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 88.2 | 15.2 | 74.8 |
| August 2025 | 54.5 | 46.5 | 39.4 | 31.5 | 8.0 | 7.1 | 85.3 | 15.3 | 72.3 |
| New Brunswick | |||||||||
| August 2024 | 46.2 | 38.7 | 36.0 | 30.1 | 5.9 | x | 83.8 | x | 77.9 |
| August 2025 | 42.1 | 36.4 | 32.5 | 26.1 | 6.3 | 4.0 | 86.5 | 11.0 | 77.2 |
| Quebec | |||||||||
| August 2024 | 370.9 | 330.6 | 294.6 | 243.9 | 50.7 | 36.0 | 89.1 | 10.9 | 79.4 |
| August 2025 | 380.8 | 340.3 | 308.9 | 244.0 | 64.8 | 31.4 | 89.4 | 9.2 | 81.1 |
| Ontario | |||||||||
| August 2024 | 855.2 | 722.9 | 610.1 | 443.8 | 166.3 | 112.7 | 84.5 | 15.6 | 71.3 |
| August 2025 | 885.6 | 731.6 | 621.2 | 428.8 | 192.4 | 110.3 | 82.6 | 15.1 | 70.1 |
| Manitoba | |||||||||
| August 2024 | 100.8 | 88.4 | 81.3 | 63.9 | 17.4 | 7.1 | 87.7 | 8.0 | 80.7 |
| August 2025 | 96.3 | 85.1 | 75.9 | 61.2 | 14.6 | 9.1 | 88.4 | 10.7 | 78.8 |
| Saskatchewan | |||||||||
| August 2024 | 72.1 | 63.5 | 56.3 | 47.6 | 8.7 | 7.3 | 88.1 | 11.5 | 78.1 |
| August 2025 | 72.6 | 60.8 | 55.6 | 47.3 | 8.3 | 5.3 | 83.7 | 8.7 | 76.6 |
| Alberta | |||||||||
| August 2024 | 271.0 | 231.4 | 208.8 | 161.4 | 47.4 | 22.6 | 85.4 | 9.8 | 77.0 |
| August 2025 | 278.6 | 239.0 | 208.4 | 162.1 | 46.3 | 30.6 | 85.8 | 12.8 | 74.8 |
| British Columbia | |||||||||
| August 2024 | 323.9 | 263.9 | 235.2 | 166.1 | 69.1 | 28.6 | 81.5 | 10.8 | 72.6 |
| August 2025 | 303.9 | 245.9 | 217.7 | 152.2 | 65.4 | 28.2 | 80.9 | 11.5 | 71.6 |
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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