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Women+'s employment rate: Canadian provinces ranked (2025)

Measure: Women+'s employment rate (%). All 10 provinces and territories with data in Employment of women and men by province, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Source: Statistics Canada, Table 14-10-0327-01. Reproduced and distributed on an "as is" basis with the permission of Statistics Canada. Contains information licensed under the Statistics Canada Open Licence (Open Government Licence – Canada).
Data last updated: 2026-11-09

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National value: 57.1 (Canada).

Lowest: 50.4 to 54.3 %
Group 2: 54.3 to 56.8 %
Group 3: 56.8 to 58.3 %
Group 4: 58.3 to 59 %
Highest: 59 to 60.3 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.

Note: Labour Force Survey annual averages for the ten provinces; the territories are surveyed separately.


1	Saskatchewan	60.3
2	Alberta	59
3	Quebec	58.6
4	Manitoba	58.3
5	Prince Edward Island	57.9
6	British Columbia	56.8
7	Ontario	56.1
8	Nova Scotia	54.3
9	New Brunswick	53.8
10	Newfoundland and Labrador	50.4

Source: Statistics Canada, Table 14-10-0327-01: Labour force characteristics by gender and detailed age group, annual. Reference period: 2025.

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Canadian provinces and territories ranked by women+'s employment rate (%) (2025). Data: Statistics Canada, Table 14-10-0327-01; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/ca-provinces-by-women-plus-s-employment-rate/

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