Non-financial co-operatives in Canada, 2022

Release date: November 4, 2024
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Description: Non-financial co-operatives in Canada, 2022

In 2022, there were 5,616 active, non-financial co-operatives in Canada, an increase of 0.2% from 2021.


Table 01
Table summary
This table displays the results of Table 01. The information is grouped by Region (appearing as row headers), Number of active non-financial co-operatives by province and territory (appearing as column headers).
Region Number of active non-financial co-operatives by province and territory
Alberta 496
British Columbia 482
Manitoba 242
New Brunswick 114
Newfoundland and Labrador 29
Nova Scotia 193
Ontario 1,079
Prince Edward Island 65
Quebec 2,502
Saskatchewan 372
Territories 42

More than half of non-financial co-operatives operated in three sectors.


Table 02
Table summary
This table displays the results of Table 02. The information is grouped by Industry sector (appearing as row headers), Number of co-operatives, 2022 and Percent (appearing as column headers).
Industry sector Number of co-operatives, 2022 Percent
Real estate and rental and leasing 1,897 33.80%
Wholesale and retail trade 753 13.40%
Public administration and other services 701 12.50%
Other 2,265 40.30%

While non-financial co-operatives employed 102,038 people, more than half of co-operatives had no employees.


Table 03
Table summary
This table displays the results of Table 03. The information is grouped by Employment size group (appearing as row headers), Number of active co-operatives, 2022 (appearing as column headers).
Employment size group Number of active co-operatives, 2022
No employees 2,922
1- 99 employees 2,520
100 -499 employees 148
500 employees or more 26

Non-profits made up 63.2% of all non-financial co-operatives, earning 4.1% of all revenue.


Table 04
Table summary
This table displays the results of Table 04. The information is grouped by Non-profit status (appearing as row headers), Percent of active cooperatives, 2022 and Percent of revenue, 2022 (appearing as column headers).
Non-profit status Percent of active cooperatives, 2022 Percent of revenue, 2022
Non-profit 63.20% 4.10%

Growth of non-financial co-operatives continued through 2022.


Table 05
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This table displays the results of Table 05 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 (appearing as column headers).
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Assets (billions of dollars) 38 39.2 42.6 45.6 47.3 50.5

Sources: Statistics Canada, Business-Linkable File Environment, Business-Linkable File Environment, Business Register; Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, list of non-financial co-operatives and national, provincial and territorial co-operative registries.

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