Alcohol and cannabis sales in Canada, April 2023 to March 2024

Release date: March 7, 2025
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Infographic: Alcohol and cannabis sales in Canada, April 2023 to March 2024
Description: Alcohol and cannabis sales in Canada, April 2023 to March 2024

Total sales in Canada

  • Alcohol: $26.2 billion (-0.1% from 2022/2023)
  • Cannabis: $5.2 billion (+11.6% from 2022/2023)
Share of total sales,Note 1 by product type, 2023/2024
  Share of total sales
Alcohol  
Beer 35.1%
Wine 29.9%
Spirits 26.3%
Ciders and coolers 8.7%
Cannabis  
Dried 61.3%
Inhaled extractsNote 2 29.3%
Solid edibles 4.3%
Ingested extractsNote 3 3.1%
Beverages 1.6%
OtherNote 4 0.4%

On average, Canadians of legal age bought the equivalent of 8.7 standard alcoholic drinksNote 5 per week, down from 9.2 the previous year.

Inhaled extracts were the fastest growing cannabis category, up 31.4% from 2022/2023.

Governments earnedNote 6 $418 from the sale of alcoholic beverages and $68 from the sale of cannabis products per person of legal age.

Share of sales – Canadian vs. imported products Table summary
This table displays the results of Share of sales – Canadian vs. imported products , calculated using (appearing as column headers).
  Canadian Imported
Beer 88.0% 12.0%
Spirits 46.1% 53.9%
Wine 28.8% 71.2%
Ciders and Coolers 85.0% 15.0%

Source: Statistics Canada, Control and sale of alcoholic beverages and cannabis, April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024.

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