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2025
21,028.7 thousand employed
2024
20,730.5 thousand employed
2023
20,334.8 thousand employed
2022
19,739.5 thousand employed
2021
18,964.1 thousand employed
2020
18,068.5 thousand employed
2019
19,070.8 thousand employed
2018
18,706.6 thousand employed
2017
18,372.2 thousand employed
2016
17,966.9 thousand employed
2015
17,857.2 thousand employed
2014
17,738.5 thousand employed
2013
17,667.7 thousand employed
2012
17,431.6 thousand employed
2011
17,219.6 thousand employed
2010
16,978.2 thousand employed
2009
16,755.4 thousand employed
2008
16,996.8 thousand employed
2007
16,756.8 thousand employed
2006
16,413.7 thousand employed
2005
16,123.5 thousand employed
2004
15,915 thousand employed
2003
15,660.8 thousand employed
2002
15,291.3 thousand employed
2001
14,932.3 thousand employed
2000
14,760.1 thousand employed
1999
14,402 thousand employed
1998
14,047 thousand employed
1997
13,708.2 thousand employed
1996
13,420.1 thousand employed
1995
13,295.4 thousand employed
1994
13,058.7 thousand employed
1993
12,792.7 thousand employed
1992
12,730.9 thousand employed
1991
12,857.4 thousand employed
1990
13,086.4 thousand employed
1989
12,996.2 thousand employed
1988
12,709.6 thousand employed
1987
12,333 thousand employed

Employment in Canada over time

A broken line is an unpublished year.

Employment in Canada, every year on fileTotal, all occupations, both sexes. A broken line means a year Statistics Canada did not publish — not a fall to zero.010,00020,00030,00040,00050,00019871991199519992003200720112015201920231987: 123331988: 12709.61989: 12996.21990: 13086.41991: 12857.41992: 12730.91993: 12792.71994: 13058.71995: 13295.41996: 13420.11997: 13708.21998: 140471999: 144022000: 14760.12001: 14932.32002: 15291.32003: 15660.82004: 159152005: 16123.52006: 16413.72007: 16756.82008: 16996.82009: 16755.42010: 16978.22011: 17219.62012: 17431.62013: 17667.72014: 17738.52015: 17857.22016: 17966.92017: 18372.22018: 18706.62019: 19070.82020: 18068.52021: 18964.12022: 19739.52023: 20334.82024: 20730.52025: 21028.7Source: Statistics Canada Table 14-10-0416. Survey estimates.

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Source: Statistics Canada — Labour force characteristics by occupation, annual (Table 14-10-0416).

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How many people work in each occupation group in each province, and how that has changed every year since 1987 — labour force, employment, unemployment and the unemployment rate, by occupation, province and gender.

Source: Statistics Canada — Labour force characteristics by occupation, annual (Table 14-10-0416) — Statistics Canada Open Licence. Data refreshes annual. Every page links the row it came from.

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