Unemployment rates of 25- to 29-year-olds, by educational attainment, Canada and jurisdictions. This table is included in Section E: Transitions and outcomes: Labour market outcomes of the Pan Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP). PCEIP draws from a wide variety of data sources to provide information on the school-age population, elementary, secondary and postsecondary education, transitions, and labour market outcomes. The program presents indicators for all of Canada, the provinces, the territories, as well as selected international comparisons and comparisons over time. PCEIP is an ongoing initiative of the Canadian Education Statistics Council, a partnership between Statistics Canada and the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada that provides a set of statistical measures on education systems in Canada.

In 2023, the unemployment rate in Canada stood at 5.4 percent. People with a university degree were less affected by unemployment, while the highest unemployment rate was registered among the population with a high school diploma or less.

Unemployment Rate in Canada remained unchanged at 6.90 percent in July. This dataset provides - Canada Unemployment Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Unemployment rate, participation rate, and employment rate by educational attainment, gender and age group, annual.

Unemployment rate and employment rate by type of student during summer months, gender and age group. Data are also available for the standard error of the estimate and the standard error of the year-over-year change.

The statistic shows the unemployment rate of college graduates in Canada from graduation year 2000 to 2010. 5 percent of those who graduated in 2009/2010 with a college degree in Canada were unemployed three years after graduation.

Youth Unemployment Rate in Canada increased to 14.60 percent in July from 14.20 percent in June of 2025. This dataset provides - Canada Youth Unemployment Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

The number of people who are unemployed as a percentage of the active labour force (i.e. employed and unemployed).

Unemployment rate, participation rate, and employment rate by type of student during school months, gender and age group, monthly.

This statistic shows the unemployment rate of persons, aged 15 to 24 years old, in Canada in 2022, by student status. The unemployment rate presented here is expressed as a percentage of the labor force who are aged 15 to 24 years. In 2022, about *** percent of part-time students were unemployed in Canada.

In 2023, the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador had the highest unemployment rate in Canada. That year, it had a ten percent unemployment rate. In comparison, Québec had the lowest unemployment rate at 4.5 percent.

Nunavut

Nunavut is the largest and most northern province of Canada. Their economy is powered by many industries which include mining, oil, gas, hunting, fishing, and transportation. They have a high amount of mineral resources and many of their jobs come from mining, however, the territory still suffers from a high unemployment rate, which has fluctuated since 2004. The lack of necessary education, skills, and mobility are all factors that play a part in unemployment. Most of the population identifies as Inuit. Their official languages include English, French, and several Inuit languages. The capital is Iqaluit, which is their largest community and only city. The climate in Nunavut is a polar climate due to its high latitude, and as a result, it rarely goes above 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

Unemployment in Canada

The unemployment rate in Canada had been decreasing since 2009, but increased to 9.7 percent in 2020 due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Since 2006, landed immigrants have faced higher unemployment rates compared to those born in Canada. Youth unemployment in Canada has fluctuated since 1998, but has always remained in the double digits. Additionally, the average duration of unemployment in Canada in 2023 was about 17.4 weeks.

This statistic shows the labor force participation rate in Canada from 2018 projected to 2028. In 2028, the labor force participation rate among people aged 15 years or older in Canada is forecast to be 63.92 percent.

Canada LFS: Unemployment Rate: Students: Ages 20 to 24 data was reported at 7.600 % in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 6.400 % for 2023. Canada LFS: Unemployment Rate: Students: Ages 20 to 24 data is updated yearly, averaging 7.700 % from Dec 1976 (Median) to 2024, with 49 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 14.300 % in 2020 and a record low of 5.200 % in 1989. Canada LFS: Unemployment Rate: Students: Ages 20 to 24 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Canada. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Canada – Table CA.G022: Labour Force Survey: Unemployment: Students.

Number of persons in the labour force (employment and unemployment) and not in the labour force, unemployment rate, participation rate, and employment rate, by educational degree, gender and age group, annual.

System level performance measure showing percentage of graduates who were unemployed at the time of the survey, compared with the percentage of unemployed individuals with high school credentials or less.

System level performance measure showing percentage of graduates who were unemployed at the time of the survey, compared with the percentage of unemployed individuals with high school credentials or less.

Canada LFS: Unemployment Rate: Students: Ages 15 to 19 data was reported at 16.100 % in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 12.500 % for 2023. Canada LFS: Unemployment Rate: Students: Ages 15 to 19 data is updated yearly, averaging 15.100 % from Dec 1976 (Median) to 2024, with 49 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 19.700 % in 2010 and a record low of 9.300 % in 1976. Canada LFS: Unemployment Rate: Students: Ages 15 to 19 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistics Canada. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Canada – Table CA.G022: Labour Force Survey: Unemployment: Students.

Number of persons in the labour force (employment and unemployment), unemployment rate, participation rate and employment rate by province, gender and age group. Data are presented for 12 months earlier, previous month and current month, as well as year-over-year and month-to-month level change and percentage change. Data are also available for the standard error of the estimate, the standard error of the month-to-month change and the standard error of the year-over-year change.

The Labour Force Survey provides estimates of employment and unemployment which are among the timeliest and important measures of performance of the Canadian economy. With the release of the survey results only 10 days after the completion of data collection, the LFS estimates are the first of the major monthly economic data series to be released. The Canadian Labour Force Survey was developed following the Second World War to satisfy a need for reliable and timely data on the labour market. Information was urgently required on the massive labour market changes involved in the transition from a war to a peace-time economy. The main objective of the LFS is to divide the working-age population into three mutually exclusive classifications - employed, unemployed, and not in the labour force - and to provide descriptive and explanatory data on each of these. LFS data are used to produce the well-known unemployment rate as well as other standard labour market indicators such as the employment rate and the participation rate. The LFS also provides employment estimates by industry, occupation, public and private sector, hours worked and much more, all cross-classifiable by a variety of demographic characteristics. Estimates are produced for Canada, the provinces, the territories and a large number of sub-provincial regions. For employees, wage rates, union status, job permanency and workplace size are also produced. These data are used by different levels of government for evaluation and planning of employment programs in Canada. Regional unemployment rates are used by Employment and Social Development Canada to determine eligibility, level and duration of insurance benefits for persons living within a particular employment insurance region. The data are also used by labour market analysts, economists, consultants, planners, forecasters and academics in both the private and public sector.This public use microdata file contains non-aggregated data for a wide variety of variables collected from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). It contains both personal characteristics for all individuals in the household and detailed labour force characteristics for household members 15 years of age and over. The personal characteristics include age, sex, marital status, educational attainment, and family characteristics. Detailed labour force characteristics include employment information such as class of worker, usual and actual hours of work, employee hourly and weekly wages, industry and occupation of current or most recent job, public and private sector, union status, paid or unpaid overtime hours, job permanency, hours of work lost, job tenure, and unemployment information such as duration of unemployment, methods of job search and type of job sought. Labour force characteristics are also available for students during the school year and during the summer months as well as school attendance whether full or part-time and the type of institution.LFS revisions: Labour force surveys are revised on a periodic basis, either to adopt the most recent geography, industry and occupation classifications; to use new observations to fine-tune seasonal adjustment factors; or to introduce methodological enhancement. Prior LFS revisions were conducted in 2011, 2015 and 2021. The most recent revisions to the LFS were conducted in 2023. The first major change was a transition to the National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2021 V1.0, with all LFS series from 1987 onwards having been revised to the new classification. The second major change were methodological enhancements to LFS data processing, applied to all LFS series beginning Jan 2006. The third major change was a revision of seasonal adjustment factors, applied to LFS series Jan 2002 onward. A list of prior versions of this LFS dataset can be found under the ‘Versions’ tab.

Canada CA: Unemployment with Advance Education: Female: % of Female Labour Force data was reported at 4.172 % in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 4.128 % for 2022. Canada CA: Unemployment with Advance Education: Female: % of Female Labour Force data is updated yearly, averaging 5.248 % from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2023, with 34 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 7.792 % in 1993 and a record low of 4.128 % in 2022. Canada CA: Unemployment with Advance Education: Female: % of Female Labour Force data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Canada – Table CA.World Bank.WDI: Employment and Unemployment. The percentage of the labor force with an advanced level of education who are unemployed. Advanced education comprises short-cycle tertiary education, a bachelor’s degree or equivalent education level, a master’s degree or equivalent education level, or doctoral degree or equivalent education level according to the International Standard Classification of Education 2011 (ISCED 2011).;International Labour Organization. “Education and Mismatch Indicators database (EMI)” ILOSTAT. Accessed January 07, 2025. https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/.;Weighted average;