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Poverty rate (Market Basket Measure) by province and territory Share of persons living below Canada's Official Poverty Line, the Market Basket Measure (2023 base), by age group, and the number of persons below it, from the Canadian Income Survey.
Reference period 2024 Licence Source: Statistics Canada, Table 11-10-0135-01. 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). Poverty rate (Market Basket Measure) by province and territory: Poverty rate, all persons (%) 13 areas ranked by Poverty rate, all persons (%). Highest: Nunavut (31.7); lowest: Quebec (7.0); national value 11.0. Nunavut Nunavut: 31.7 31.7 British Columbia British Columbia: 13.0 13.0 Ontario Ontario: 12.5 12.5 Manitoba Manitoba: 12.3 12.3 Yukon Yukon: 11.8 11.8 Saskatchewan Saskatchewan: 11.6 11.6 Alberta Alberta: 11.0 11.0 Nova Scotia Nova Scotia: 10.9 10.9 Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador: 10.4 10.4 Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island: 10.0 10.0 Northwest Territories Northwest Territories: 10.0 10.0 New Brunswick New Brunswick: 9.9 9.9 Quebec Quebec: 7.0 7.0 National 11.0
Poverty rate (Market Basket Measure) by province and territory: Poverty rate, all persons (%) 13 areas ranked by Poverty rate, all persons (%). Highest: Nunavut (31.7); lowest: Quebec (7.0); national value 11.0. Nunavut Nunavut: 31.7 31.7 British Columbia British Columbia: 13.0 13.0 Ontario Ontario: 12.5 12.5 Manitoba Manitoba: 12.3 12.3 Yukon Yukon: 11.8 11.8 Saskatchewan Saskatchewan: 11.6 11.6 Alberta Alberta: 11.0 11.0 Nova Scotia Nova Scotia: 10.9 10.9 Newfoundland and … Newfoundland and Labrador: 10.4 10.4 Prince Edward Isl… Prince Edward Island: 10.0 10.0 Northwest Territo… Northwest Territories: 10.0 10.0 New Brunswick New Brunswick: 9.9 9.9 Quebec Quebec: 7.0 7.0 National 11.0
Poverty rate, all persons (%), 2024, sorted high to low. 13 areas ranked by Poverty rate, all persons (%). Highest: Nunavut (31.7); lowest: Quebec (7.0); national value 11.0. Full data in the table below.Source: Statistics Canada. Download CSV Click a column header to sort; the national total stays pinned at the top.
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Province/territory Poverty rate, all persons (%) Poverty rate, under 18 (%) Poverty rate, 18 to 64 (%) Poverty rate, 65 and over (%) Number of persons in poverty Canada 11 11.5 12.6 5.4 4,477,500 Newfoundland and Labrador 10.4 11.2 12.8 3.8 55,600 Prince Edward Island 10 11.1 11.6 4.5 17,800 Nova Scotia 10.9 11.4 12.9 5.1 114,700 New Brunswick 9.9 11.7 11.4 4.8 83,200 Quebec 7 5.8 8.8 3.2 626,700 Ontario 12.5 13.2 14 6.3 1,992,500 Manitoba 12.3 14.8 13.3 5.6 172,900 Saskatchewan 11.6 15.1 12.4 4.2 136,200 Alberta 11 12.8 12 4.4 536,200 British Columbia 13 12.6 14.8 7.5 720,100 Yukon 11.8 9.5 13 9.6 5,200 Northwest Territories 10 8.6 4,300 Nunavut 31.7 37.7 28.3 31.5 12,100
Source: Statistics Canada, Table 11-10-0135-01: Low income statistics by age, gender and economic family type . Reference period: 2024.
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Cite this table Source agency Statistics Canada Dataset Table 11-10-0135-01 Table Poverty rate (Market Basket Measure) by province and territory Data last updated 2026-10-27 Page https://quadranac.com/tables/ca-poverty/ Poverty rate (Market Basket Measure) by province and territory (Canada, 2024). Data: Statistics Canada, Table 11-10-0135-01. Retrieved 2026-10-27 via Quadranac, https://quadranac.com/tables/ca-poverty/
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